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.

An engine fire leaves 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and plumbing in this wild docum...

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

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

How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cau...

Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doe...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exploring one of the most devastating but little-known disasters in London's history, this documenta...

The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twel...

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

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later n...

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

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...

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

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