On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven men on board, five lived. This is the remarkable story of the heroic rescue mission that brought them home.
12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...
Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...
The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...
A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...
Sangduen Chailert, or Lek, as she is generally known, has already rescued over 200 elephants. She ha...
Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...
The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets th...
"1985: Heroes among Ruins" is a reflection of disaster. It is about the human solidarity, the search...
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...
On January 8, 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down as it was leaving Iranian ai...
The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic recon...
Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California histor...
A minute-by-minute account of the Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami told through amateur video footage of peop...
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an ...
Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his l...
On April 15, 2019 600 firefighters of the Paris Fire Brigade fought for over 7 hours to save the Not...