Natural Disaster
see all genres ›Nature wreaks havoc on mankind in a very up-close and personal way in these curious, sometimes political- and ecologically-concerned documentaries.
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Trouble the Water
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced by FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you...Watch Movie
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Give Us Our Daily Water
2015 has seen the driest winter in eighty-four years in southeastern Brazil. Water shortages became extremely critical in São Paulo, home to twenty million people. At the end of winter, officials were estimating São Paolo's reserves would last a mere ninety days without...Watch Movie
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Storm Children
With striking black & white photography, this critically-acclaimed observational documentary from Philippine master Lav Diaz takes stock of the devastation wrought by typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) on the Philippine coastal town of Tacloban. The film, which follows three children as they cope with the...Watch Movie
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Kamp Katrina
KAMP KATRINA, an award winning cinéma vérité documentary, follows a small group of people who have taken refuge in a garden transformed into a tent city by an extraordinary New Orleans couple, Ms. Pearl and her husband, David. KAMP KATRINA focuses on the dialectic between madness and hope in...Watch Movie
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There Once Was an Island
What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips...Watch Movie
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Act of God
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by...Watch Movie
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Films of the San Francisco Earthquake
Edison cameraman Bonine traveled to San Francisco to take more than thirteen short films of San Francisco in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake on 18 April 1906, among them DYNAMITING RUINS and RESCUING SOLDIERS CAUGHT IN THE FALLEN WALLS and PANORAMA RUSSIAN AND NOB...Watch Movie
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Lumsden
Lumsden, Saskatchewan is a town of 850 citizens on a river called the Qu'Appelle. In the spring of 1974, the river doubled its volume and threatened to flood the town. The townspeople organized themselves and the whole province stood behind them. LUMSDEN is the story of an incredible battle...Watch Movie
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The Third Wave
Immediately following the 2004 tsunami distaster, Alison and Oscar raced to Sri Lanka with little money or experience and planned to volunteer for two weeks. Along the way, they met up with two other volunteers, Donny and Bruce. Together they found themselves running a refugee camp for over a...Watch Movie
