On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a 40-foot wall of water. The bustling industrial city of Johnstown, PA, in the valley below was reduced to a wasteland, killing more than 2,200. This heavily dramatized documentary reviews the factors that led to the dam's collapse, while dramatic reenactments and survivors' personal testimonies detail the horror.

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...

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

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

Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on ...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The fil...

Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential towe...

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...

Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.

This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments...

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

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

Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doe...
This astounding documentary delves into the mysteries of the Tunguska event – one of the largest cos...

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

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY ELLEN PAYNE. Following the events of the Great Flood of 2016 that wreaked ...

An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven me...