Movies: Natural disaster

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The two NZ survivors of the deadly White Island eruption tell their remarkable story of survival....

It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean. More than 230,000 people died, including many holidaymakers from Germany and France. On the occasion of ...

On March 11, 2021, Kiyoshi Onodera, the owner chef of an Italian restaurant overlooking the ocean on the Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture, invites his friends to his restaurant to drink and party on a day when the disaster area is enveloped in a...

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Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods)....

Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting....

As Cyclone Remal approached, we arrived in Debpur village of Dhankhali Upazila, Bangladesh. What struck us immediately was the stark contrast between the official warnings of impending devastation and the villagers' apparent lack of preparedness. Ove...

February 2010. On a remote island in the Pacific Ocean called Juan Fernández, everyone slept in town. But a 12-year-old girl felt a tremor and warned of imminent danger....

On December 9, 2019, New Zealand's most active volcano erupted, engulfing 47 day trippers in a toxic ash cloud. 21 lost their lives that day and in the following weeks. Whakaari: A Heroes' Story paints a picture of the chaos and the bravery, and the ...

In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Bureau learned about it from merchant ships at sea and predicted it would blow itself out at Cape Hattera...

A one hour documentary on the aftermath of the 2013 Alberta Floods in the town of High River....

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In the lush depths of the rainforest, Vilma and Andrés find themselves gripped by an eerie premonition, a haunting sense of a catastrophe looming on the horizon-a disaster they have never encountered in reality but have always feared in their imagina...

Dramatizes the plight of a young adventure seeker whose canoe is capsized by a wall of water during a flood. Shows community flood preparations, pointing out that a flood's predictability usually allows ample warning time to save lives. Designed to s...

An experimental short film about the Earthquake, that is still ongoing in Turkey....

Jim Geiger, a retired forest ranger and amateur mountaineer, attempts to become the oldest American and first great grandfather to summit Mt. Everest, aged 68. His transformation from a weekend hiker to attempting one of the most extreme and physical...

George Kennedy narrates this documentary that examines the theory that the world is doomed due to the influence the planet Jupiter has on the Earth....

17-year-old Monica is left to take care for her exuberant younger sister, Sarah, for the week. As the girls rush to school one morning, the tornado sirens suddenly wail outside....

Following the unprecedented disruption caused by the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, The Volcano That Stopped Britain explores the geological and scientific background behind the headlines of this extraordinary story. The documentary...