Natural Disaster Movies

Found footage experiment made using footage from a disaster film. A wide array of colours and textures distort and bury the original footage.

After a massive earthquake cut the South Island town of Kaikōura off from the rest of the country, a huge effort went into rebuilding the road...

The film discusses the emotional aftermath of disasters, emphasizing the importance of expressing feelings and seeking help. It highlights personal...

It is the largest fire in Sweden, in modern times. In the pressing summer heat, a small forest fire started in the forests of Västmanland. But...

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...

Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doesn't make for a good outcome. Hollywood-style...

Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.

Acclaimed Australian journalist Ray Martin and remarkable Australians return to the epicentre of the tragedy, uncovering incredible stories of hope...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and...

Using film footage shot by the Genevese film director, Fernand Reymond, in Bangladesh in 1972, this documentary film describes the cyclone prevention...

The story of how an Australian and international community of blacksmiths, welders, artists and volunteers responded to the devastating Black...

Dramatizes the plight of a young adventure seeker whose canoe is capsized by a wall of water during a flood. Shows community flood preparations,...

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

An innovative documentary that illustrates how weather works by performing brave, ambitious (even unlikely) experiments that show how nature...

Machines relentlessly working under the scorching sun. Pumps, reels, and unbearable horizons behind corrugated metal sheets that spark at the touch....

A documentary about Guatemala's Fuego volcano eruption in June 2018, following the firefighters and rescue workers who helped communities devastated...

On January 8, 2005, the storm Gudrun pulled over southern Sweden and large parts of the Småland forest blew down. How do you cope when your...

A powerful, uncensored and insightful documentary built around raw, heartfelt, never-seen-before, interviews captured in the immediate aftermath of...

A compilation of various accidents, disasters, executions, and other acts of mayhem and human feats caught on film.