Topic: Natural Disasters

Direction Craig Mazin · Johan Renck

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

Plot TV miniseries (2019). 5 Episodes. In April 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the USSR becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.

Direction J.J. Abrams

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

Plot 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),...

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

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

Plot TV Series (2004-2010). 6 Seasons. 121 Episodes. 48 survivors fight to stay alive on a tropical island with a malicious mind of its own, after their plane mysteriously tears apart...

Direction Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · Jimmy Chin

Plot '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...

Direction Gonzalo Arijon

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Iker Jiménez

Cast Iker Jiménez · Carmen Porter

Direction André Barro · Bernard Vaillot

Plot 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...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Werner Herzog

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Ron Howard

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

Plot A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.

Direction Susana S. Recouso · Emilio Carral

Plot 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...

Direction François Alaux · Herve de Crecy · Ludovic Houplain

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Gerardo Olivares · Larry Levene

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

Direction Alberto Puerta

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Carlton Cuse · John Ridley · Wendey Stanzler

Cast Vera Farmiga · Robert Pine · Cherry Jones · Julie Ann Emery

Plot TV Miniseries (2022). 8 Episodes. Doctors and nurses at the intensive care unit of a New Orleans' hospital struggle with treating patients during Hurricane Katrina when the facility is without...