A century after the Great Kanto Earthquake, previously unknown details have been extracted from newly 8K remastered and colorized footage, vividly demonstrating how Tokyo citizens faced the disaster.
Lac-Mégantic investigates one of the worst oil train tragedies in history: a foreseeable catastrophe ignited by corporate and political negligence.
Historic events that forever transformed the United States.
123 people died when the Norwegian semi-submersible housing platform Alexander L. Kielland capsized in the North Sea in 1980. Survivors and relatives of the deceased still have many questions. What really happened?
Ride along with the NTSB and its inter-agency partners as they work together towards determining the probable cause of aircraft accidents. These NTSB investigations provide a window into the integral role of air travel in Alaskan life, while raising awareness that might prevent future accidents.
Retrace some of NZ's darkest days to reveal the stories, secrets and lessons learnt from our most famous disasters.
Hard-hitting amateur, CCTV and news footage reveals how some of the world's biggest natural disasters took away people's lives, homes and hope in Witness Disaster.
Es el año 2020 cuando el científico ambiental Thom Archer sugiere que una empresa perforadora de energía que trabaja en el glaciar de Groenlandia está causando el derretimiento del casquete polar. Como nadie le cree, se va al Ártico en busca de pruebas irrefutables.
Natural and man-made catastrophes retold by eyewitnesses and dramatic reconstructions.
In the near future, the unrelenting heat waves and coastal flooding brought on by the greenhouse effect are ravaging the Earth. While scientists and politicians argue and lay blame, ordinary citizens pay the price for a world sickened by pollution and economic disaster. The Fire Next Time is the story of an American family forced to confront this ruinous legacy.
Emmy Award-winning actor Craig T. Nelson leads his embattled family through a Grapes of Wrath for the modern era. Through this harrowing odyssey, the Morgan family stands as a paradigm of courage, faith, and family unity in the face of adversity on a cataclysmic scale.
The purchase, selling, or owning of a gun is banned in South Korea. There are almost zero crime cases involving guns in the country. Things change quickly. Illegal guns, from unknown sources, are brought into the country and gun incidents proliferate.
The Storm is a 2009 American science fiction disaster miniseries directed by Bradford May. Based on a previous teleplay by Matthew Chernov and David Rosiak, it was written by David Abramowitz and Dennis A. Pratt and revolves around a weather creation system developed by the Atmospheric Research Institute that threatens life on Earth when deployed by the military. However, while scientist Dr. Jonathan Kirk, Danni Wilson, and detectives Devon Williams and Stilman attempt to save the world, the former is hunted by hitmen.
The first part of the film was broadcast on the NBC network July 26, 2009. The second part was broadcast on August 2, 2009.
Ichiro Inuyashiki es un hombre de 58 años, con una vida bastante rutinaria, empleado de oficina y una familia que prácticamente le desprecia. Un día, tras un chequeo médico, descubre que tiene cáncer terminal y que le queda poco tiempo de vida. Por si fuera poco, de camino a casa… ¡Una nave extraterrestre aterriza encima de él! Al despertar, Inuyashiki ya no es el mismo: ha sido reconstruido como una máquina de matar. Pero un nuevo cuerpo conlleva una gran responsabilidad: ¿se convertirá Inuyashiki en un héroe o quizás en la peor pesadilla de la humanidad?
Toko Ikuta lost her parents in a car accident at the age of 3. Afterwards, her uncle, who ran a barbershop in Morioka, raised her and she had a happy childhood. Toko Ikuta was active as a local idol and she dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 19, she is set to take an audition in Tokyo. The day before her audition, on March 11, 2011, the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hits Japan. In the autumn of 2011, Toko Ikuta works at a cafe. She goes with her Korean co-worker Han Yoo-Ri to do volunteer work in Kesennuma as the area recovers from the devastating tsunami. There, Toko Ikuta meets Kiyotaka Shimizu who is a university student from Tokyo and a member of a student volunteer group. While spending time together in Kesennuma, Toko Ikuta and Kiyotaka Shimizu develop feelings for each other.
Avenger is an anime series, produced by Bandai Visual, Bee Train and Xebec, and directed by Koichi Mashimo. It is set on post-apocalyptic colonized Mars. The series premiered across Japan between 1 October 2003 and 24 December 2003 on the TV Tokyo network. It was later licensed for North American distribution by Bandai's distributive unit across the region, Bandai Entertainment.
The "loosely science-fiction adventure" is set in the summer sometime in the 21st century. Tokyo's Shinjuku ward has become a wasteland, void of all humans due to an unexplained catastrophe. What remains are these strange creatures such as "Donyatsu," the half-cat, half-doughnut hybrid, and "Begaru," a feline bagel composite.
Debido a una misión de emergencia, el médico militar Zhang Du Hang es enviado repentinamente a bordo de un barco médico naval dedicado a esfuerzos humanitarios. Allí, choca con la doctora Lu Yang debido a sus ideologías contrastantes hacia la medicina.
Como médico, Zhang Du Hang no está nada impresionado con Lu Yang, ya que la encuentra demasiado racional y tranquila. Lu Yang en realidad comparte un desprecio similar por sus métodos que, según ella, provienen de la naturaleza. Ambos son transferidos al mismo departamento, lo que no les deja otra opción que cooperar entre sí ante situaciones urgentes como un barco mercante en peligro, ayuda transnacional en casos de desastre, una epidemia de virus y esfuerzos antiterroristas. Su historia es una oda a la marina china contemporánea.
In the Biblical story from Genesis, God floods the world as Noah rescues his family and the animals in a gigantic ark.