Disaster Movies

For many years the only transportation link across Canada was one railway line. This tenuous, nation-building ribbon of steel was built through high,...

After a series of disasters, nothing is left of human civillisation. All that remains are the people left behind who live in a post-apocalyptic no...

This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The...

On February 6, 2023, an earthquake on the border of Turkey and Syria claims more than 55,000 lives. On this day, I am in an oncology center, 6 days...

Reg Sherren revisits the players and the places that were critical in the Gimli Glider incident of July 1983.

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.

The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom...

A found footage experiment made using footage from a 50s disaster film. Slowed down audio and lots of distorted textures are present.

The film is a documentary on the day April 17, 2013, when West, a small farm community in Texas was changed forever by a devastating explosion.

Ancient myths tell of catastrophic destruction by fire and flood. The legends are so extreme that they are often dismissed. Earth Under Fire connects...