A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Spændingsdramaet Key Largo er måske ikke John Hustons bedste film, men tæt på. Edward G. Robinson er tilbage i en af sine rendyrkede gangsterkarakter-roller som den usympatiske Johnny Rocco, der holder en gruppe rejsende som gidsler på et hotel på sydspidsen af Florida under en tropisk storm. Humphrey Bogart spiller en krigsveteran, der ikke har tænkt sig at finde sig i noget. Claire Trevor vandt en Oscar som skurkens alkoholiserede veninde.
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story unfolds in flashbacks as the pilot battles the storm and recalls his failures, including a love affair with the wife of his best friend.
En eskadrille af jagerpiloter mødes på en Royal Air Force-base for at kæmpe mod fjendtlige fly under Slaget om England i 2. verdenskrig.
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.
Sandy is distraught when, having saved Flipper by pulling out a spear, his father insists the dolphin be released. A grateful Flipper, however, returns the favor when Sandy is threatened by sharks.
Ægteparret Thornton beslutter at flytte hjem til England fra Caribien, fordi de ønsker et bedre miljø for deres børn. Knapt er familien kommet af sted, førend deres skib bliver overfaldet og plyndret af pirater. Ungerne ender ved en fejl på sørøverskibet, og det betyder, at de nu for alvor er kommet i dårligt selskab.
En mission i rummet truer med at ende katastrofalt da ilt-tilførelsen til rumskibet svigter. Det står klart at der ikke er ilt nok til alle tre astronauter, og eneste løsning er at en af besætningsmedlemmerne begår selvmord. Men hvem?
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Three children and two adults become trapped in the woods during a hurricane and it is up to a Bigfoot-like creature called 'Big Bay-Ty' to come to their rescue.
Richard Pryor spiller en forbryder, der påberåber sig sindssyge for at undgå fængsel. Han bliver i stedet indlagt på psykiatrisk afdeling, og først her bliver det rigtig sindssygt, da han under en strømafbrydelse ser sit snit til at flygte og udgive sig for at være læge. På forunderlig vis får han bragt orden i kaos, alt imens han udfører nogle uortodokse lægeundersøgelser, forestår en fødsel og anvender en helikopter som aircondition!
Relationship problems between a father and son are intensified by Hurricane Andrew.
Track monsoons, hurricanes, blizzards, and tornadoes. Take a journey around the planet to experience our most extreme storms and to witness the dramatic--and often perilous--efforts of scientists in the pursuit of understanding weather.Join meteorologists in the cockpit of a P-3 weather plane as they penetrate the eye of a hurricane; and in the tense, decisive moments on the road as they focus their radar on an approaching tornado, traveling to the heart of severe storms to learn what makes weather systems tick. Experience the bumpy ride into the sudden and spectacular calm of a hurricane’s eye, or the commando-like raid to the very brink of a killer tornado, and experience one of the elemental joys of doing science: that of confronting nature head-on to divine its awesome secrets.
This video presents a look at the forces of nature in their most devastating mode: lightning storms, tornadoes, flash floods, tidal waves, and hurricanes. The film, made for The Discovery Channel, accompanies professional storm chasers as they ride into the eye of a category five hurricane to gather data and get a close-up view. There is footage of a tornado with 300-mile-per-hour winds, as well as 100-foot tidal waves hurtling towards shore at 500 miles per hour. The viewer witnesses a flash flood and hears an interview with a lightning strike survivor.
Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend — and she's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that her obsession with Jackie Kennedy is nothing compared to her obsession with her brother, and she isn't the only member of the family with problems.
John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.
Renegade L.A. detective Sam (Williams) takes a role as a cast member in a reality TV show where he leads a quartet trying to find ten million dollars in buried cash. But Jared (Dudikoff) secretly lands his violent militia on the island in an effort to slay the cast and steal the money. And Jared is successful: Thanks to a corrupt producer, the renegade mercenaries find the cache of cash and start off with it, but Sam and his intrepid, unarmed teammates interrupt them before they can depart. An explosion-filled chase across the island winds up with the good guys trapped by the heavily armed bad guys, and it looks like the game is over for the TV show survivors. However, Mother Nature, in the guises of a hurricane and tidal wave, has other ideas.
Står verden på kanten af en gigantisk klimakatastrofe? Det frygter klimatologen Jack Hall. Hans forskning viser, at den globale opvarmning kan igangsætte en voldsom klimaændring, der på få dage vil gøre store dele af Jorden ubeboelig. Hall forsøger at advare verden, men for sent. Der er optræk til en global superstorm, der vil indvarsle en ny istid, og snart er millioner af liv i fare.