Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters

14 September 1943: The legendary submarine Y1 “Katsonis” was sunk north of the island of Skiathos by...

From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show...

This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, se...

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short...

The sinking of the Lusitania and the impact it had in determining the fate of World War I is widely...

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a...

An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.

The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into se...

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes follows the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew, spec...

The East German Navy's newest submarine hunter is presented. Also, a historical excursus about older...

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

British Steam Railway Disasters is the definitive DVD collection of newsreel reports covering no fe...

On June 4, 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the U.S. Naval Task Force 22.3 did the nearly...

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industri...

On the 19th of November 2010, the Pike River mine exploded with 31 men trapped inside. In the immedi...

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airpo...

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

Jaw-dropping real-life footage, from the funny to the dramatic, reveals exactly what can go wrong wh...