On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded. A battle begins in which 500,000 men are engaged throughout the Soviet Union to "liquidate" the radioactivity, build the "sarcophagus" of the damaged reactor and save the world from a second explosion that would have destroyed half of Europe. Become a reference film, this documentary combines testimonials and unseen footage, tells for the first time the Battle of Chernobyl.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, du...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the mas...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had f...

The story about Chornobyl area, all around the world we know of the disaster in 1986. The film may b...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

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...

A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.

How secure is our future? This eye-opening documentary -- which uses computer-generated imagery to i...

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capit...

Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge ...

Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on ...
This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments...

At 7:14 am on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history to date reverberated thr...

A minute-by-minute account of the Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami told through amateur video footage of peop...

The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The s...