Depicts assorted natural and human disasters, including the crash of the Hindenburg (1937), earthquakes in Alaska (1964) and Long Beach (1933), the LeMans auto racing crash at which 82 people were killed (1955), Hurrican Camille (1964), the eruption of the Mt. Etna volcano (1971), a tornado (1974), the collapse of Idaho's Teton Dam (1976), the sinking of the Andrea Doria (1956) and the Texas City explosion which devastated Galveston (1947).

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

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

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

Documentary about the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Juchitán, on the Mexican Pacific coast....

On Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PT, soon after Al Michaels and Tim McCarver started the ABC telecast ...
Using film footage shot by the Genevese film director, Fernand Reymond, in Bangladesh in 1972, this ...

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activit...

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...

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY ELLEN PAYNE. Following the events of the Great Flood of 2016 that wreaked ...
This astounding documentary delves into the mysteries of the Tunguska event – one of the largest cos...

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

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

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

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

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

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