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.

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

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

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

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

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

On April 15, 2019 600 firefighters of the Paris Fire Brigade fought for over 7 hours to save the Not...

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

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

Restoration expert Giancarlo Napoli takes on the important task of saving 86 plaster casts of Pompei...

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

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

On August 29, 2005, Rockey Vaccarella rode out Hurricane Katrina on his roof by holding on to a rope...

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

National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyew...

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

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

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

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...