Topic: Natural Disasters

Direction Craig Mazin · Johan Renck

Cast Jared Harris · Stellan Skarsgard · Emily Watson · Paul Ritter

Synopsis Chernobyl (TV Miniseries) (2019) dramatizes the catastrophic 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. The story follows the brave scientists, firefighters, and officials who risked their lives to contain the explosion and prevent further tragedy, while...

Direction J.J. Abrams

Cast Matthew Fox · Evangeline Lilly · Jorge Garcia · Dominic Monaghan

Synopsis The pilot episode introduces the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, who experience a plane crash and end up on a mysterious island. Three of the characters, Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan), start...

Direction J.J. Abrams · Damon Lindelof · Jeffrey Lieber · Carlton Cuse

Cast Matthew Fox · Evangeline Lilly · Terry O'Quinn · Josh Holloway

Synopsis Lost (TV Series) (2004) follows the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, which crashes on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. As they struggle to stay alive, they discover the island is filled with strange phenomena, including polar bears, a...

Direction Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · Jimmy Chin

Synopsis 'The Rescue' chronicles the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, trapped deep inside a flooded cave. Academy Award®-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin reveal the perilous world of cave diving, the...

Direction Gonzalo Arijon

Synopsis For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.

Direction Thomas Johnson

Direction Spike Lee

Synopsis This intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph. The film also looks at a...

Direction Iker Jiménez

Cast Iker Jiménez · Carmen Porter

Direction André Barro · Bernard Vaillot

Synopsis Revealing the dark truth that aviation safety improves one crash at a time, Mayday investigates legendary aviation disasters to find out what went wrong and why. Based on cockpit voice recorders, accident reports and eyewitness accounts, every episode also features...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Synopsis La Soufrière is, as Herzog explains, a documentary of an unavoidable catastrophe that didn’t happen. When Herzog learned in 1977 that the volcano, La Soufrière, on the small Caribbean island of Guadaloupe was about to explode and that one man...

Direction Masaki Tachibana · Daisuke Tokutsuchi · Fumiya Kitajou · Hideki Ito

Synopsis The premise of the project is the 70% or higher possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime will depict what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake took place. The story...

Direction Ron Howard

Cast Colin Farrell · Viggo Mortensen · Joel Edgerton · Tom Bateman

Synopsis Thirteen Lives (2022) tells the gripping true story of the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand. When a young soccer team and their coach become trapped by sudden floods in a labyrinthine cave system, an international team of divers...

Direction Susana S. Recouso · Emilio Carral

Synopsis More than a year and a half after the tragedy of the Alvia 04155 in Angrois, the personal experiences and the questions about why the train actually derailed on that 24th of july still remain in the minds of those...

Direction François Alaux · Herve de Crecy · Ludovic Houplain

Synopsis Police chase an armed criminal in a version of Los Angeles comprised entirely of corporate logos.

Direction Robert Iscove

Cast Sander Vanocur · Jane Kaczmarek · Bree Walker · Dwier Brown

Synopsis A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not....

Direction Gerardo Olivares · Larry Levene

Synopsis A documentary about the tragedy that happended in Bhopal, India, in 1984.

Direction Daniel Bogado

Synopsis 4 episodes. A comprehensive look at the harrowing events following the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected 14 countries.

Direction Alberto Puerta

Synopsis 3 Episodes. Fly JK5022 was a tragedy. The most severe air accident in the world. This documentary tells about why and how happened. Unpublished testimonials and stories no one knows.

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Kenneth More · Jill Dixon · David McCallum · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis The crew and passengers of the Titanic fight to survive when the legendary ship strikes an iceberg.

Direction W.S. Van Dyke

Cast Clark Gable · Jeanette MacDonald · Spencer Tracy · Jack Holt

Synopsis The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable...