Natural Disaster Movies

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY ELLEN PAYNE. Following the events of the Great Flood of 2016 that wreaked havoc on southern Louisiana, the late Mary Payne...

The Defense Civil Preparedness Agency began an informational campaign in 1972 called Your Chance to Live. As part of the campaign, a series of films...

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...

This one-hour documentary film tells the story of "Storm of the Century: The Blizzard of '49" - the worst series of storms in Wyoming's history. But...

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

As Cyclone Remal approached, we arrived in Debpur village of Dhankhali Upazila, Bangladesh. What struck us immediately was the stark contrast between...

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

Depicts assorted natural and human disasters, including the crash of the Hindenburg (1937), earthquakes in Alaska (1964) and Long Beach (1933), the...

Revolcadero Beach in Acapulco, Guerrero, is one of the areas most affected by Hurricane Otis. Residents struggle daily with the effects of climate...

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

You’ll find yourself saying some or all of the these things while watching this video: OH MY GOSH! OH NO! NO WAY! WHAT THE HECK? THAT'S...

A one hour documentary on the aftermath of the 2013 Alberta Floods in the town of High River.

Released by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency in 1972, Your Chance to Live is a series of films which cover threatening events, from forest...

On October 25, 2023, Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm, struck the coast of Acapulco, Guerrero, destroying everything in its path. Carrizos is a...

When Los Angeles gets hit with a massive earthquake, how will America respond?

On April 25, 2015, Nepal was hit by a devastating earthquake in which 9,000 people lost their lives. At 7.8 on the Richter scale, the quake caused an...

A 1,000-year disaster leads to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity after devastating floods washed away the homes and lives of Eastern Kentuckians....

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...