Disaster Movies

The catastrophic and avoidable coal mining disaster at the Knox Mine is recounted by the people who lived through the tragedy.

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

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

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

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

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago on 22 May 1915, in which three trains collided at...

The World Trade Centre attack was perhaps a foretold disaster waiting to happen. The proof is in this highly incandescent film: a rapid-fire montage...

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...

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong when we venture onto the roads

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...