Date with Disaster / 1958

A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.

The Marchioness Disaster / 2008

A factual reconstruction of the events leading up to, during and after the Marchioness was struck by the Bow Belle Dredger on the river Thames in August 1989, which killed over 50 people. The film was due to be broadcast by ITV in 2007 but complaints from some of the families of the victims led to it being withdrawn ahead of transmission. It has never been broadcast in the UK, but has been screened in France.

Day of Disaster / 20077.01 voti

Why Ships Sink: The Zeebrugge Disaster / 2022

Britain's worst peacetime shipping disaster since the Titanic occurred on March 6, 1987, claiming the lives of 193 people.

Brink of Disaster! / 1972

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the library down, he has to fend them off with his baseball bat. This film opens with actual footage of civil disturbances in the 1960s, and moves on to images of historical American figures.

Belgian Disaster / 2015

Belgian Disaster.

World´s Worst Disasters / 2009

Lost Subs: Disaster at Sea / 2002

From the National Geographic Explorer series, this documentary takes an in-depth look at four submarine accidents -- the forces that brought the machines down, the tragedy of lives lost and the heroism of the submariners who sacrificed themselves to save others. Submarines profiled are the K-19 and Kursk from the Soviet Union and the USS Thresher and Squalus

Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster / 1984

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

Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage / 1937

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.

Westgate Bridge Disaster: The Untold Stories / 2020

Fifty years after the collapse of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge that took with it the lives of 35 workers, their families and the survivors share their stories of the tragedy.

Top Ten Natural Disasters / 2013

National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyewitness accounts and CGI to flesh out the stories.

Perfect Disaster / 2006

Perfect Disaster was a one-hour American documentary television mini-series that premiered in 2006 on the Discovery Channel. The program depicted the worst-case scenario that major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme disaster. A large part of each episode was based around the lives of citizens from each city, with the remainder of...

Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster / 2007

Film revealing how political ambition fuelled the Windscale fire of 1957 and then dictated that the heroes of Windscale be made the scapegoats.

Airline Disaster: Crash of the Century / 2006

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.

Ben Elton: The Great Railway Disaster / 2023

The railways are in crisis, from mass cancellations to soaring prices. Comedian Ben Elton embarks on a northern rail misadventure. Is rail privatisation a failed experiment?

Murder by Shark: Mysteries of the Birkenhead Disaster / 2018

MURDER BY SHARK - solving the bloodiest murder mystery, ever.

Tattoo Disasters UK / 2015

Documentary series about people with excessive or now-regretted tattoos. Mel thought she could win back her man by getting a tattoo dedicated to the love of his life on her wrist, Shola got the F-word tattooed on her middle finger when she was a rebellious teen, and Shaun's brother teases him about his incorrectly spelled football club tattoo.

Three Degrees of Proximity to the Disaster / 2013

A short film made for Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013).

Disaster Deja vu / 2021

History repeats itself in Disaster Deja vu, an action-packed series that showcases cities that have been hit by the craziest disasters, not once but twice! Using cutting edge GFX, original film footage, and archival photos, step inside each of these disasters as they struck in both historical and modern times.