Encounter with Disaster

My age, yours, and the age of the world

After the earthquake, my grandmother is facing the loss of her apartment.

2022

Fukushima 50

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region

2020

La legge del terremoto

2020

Nepal Beyond

Four years after the devastating Gorkha earthquake, the people of Nepal still live everyday with the problems the world left behind.

2021

The 11th Hour

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dia

2007

Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age

As co-created by environmentalists Stephan Poulle and Nicolas Koutsikas, the documentary Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age argues and provides evidence

2007

Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activity that rings the Pacific Ocean and the varied peop

1991

Dream of San Juan

The last representatives of Mixteco culture inhabit a village in the Sierra Madre. Deprived of their identity by modern civilization, they are facing

2013

A Global Warning?

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

2007

1928: The Year the Thames Flooded

Exploring one of the most devastating but little-known disasters in London's history, this documentary reveals the shocking events that unfolded durin

2024

The Ups and Downs of the Great Flood of 2016

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 t

2022

Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens

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 blas

1997

The Hurricane of '38

In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Burea

1993

National Geographic's Storm of the Century

The storm of 1993 that ravaged the Eastern Seaboard was bigger than any since the 1800s. Most were expecting only more unseasonable warmth, and were c

1998

Asian Tsunami: The Deadliest Wave

Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting.

2014

Siberian Apocalypse

This astounding documentary delves into the mysteries of the Tunguska event – one of the largest cosmic disasters in the history of civilisation. At 7

2006

Wild Weather

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

Bright Sunshine (a.k.a. The Sun)

Bright Sunshine (a.k.a. The Sun, 大太阳)

2011

Trouble the Water

"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall--j

2008

Whakaari – A Heroes' Story

On December 9, 2019, New Zealand's most active volcano erupted, engulfing 47 day trippers in a toxic ash cloud. 21 lost their lives that day and in th

2020