大西洋の小島の港町「スワロー・フォールズ」。イワシの缶詰で有名だが最近は売れなくなったため、島の住人が食べていた。フリントは発明家になることが夢だが発明品はことごとく失敗し周囲からは迷惑がられていた。ある日、水を食べ物に変えるマシン「FLDSMDFR」を開発した。稼働に大量の電力がいるので町の変電所で試したがマシンは空の彼方へ飛んでいき雲を吸い取り、大量のチーズバーガーを降らせたことで町の住人たちは大喜びした。その後、フリントは食べ物を降らせることで皆を大喜びさせ、町の人気者となっていくが、コントロールを乱していったマシンは巨大化した食べ物を生産し始めてしまう。
“あの光の中に、行ってみたかった”。高1の夏に離島から家出し、東京にやって来た帆高。だが生活はすぐに困窮し、孤独な日々の果てにようやく見つけた仕事は、怪しげなオカルト雑誌のライター業だった。彼のこれからを示唆するかのように、連日降り続ける雨。そんな中、雑踏ひしめく都会の片隅で、帆高はひとりの少女と出会う。ある事情を抱え、弟と2人で明るくたくましく暮らすその少女・陽菜。彼女には不思議な能力があった。
激しい豪雨が降り続く夜、人里離れた一軒のモーテル。管理人ラリーがくつろいでいるところへ、ひとりの男が飛び込んでくる。彼、ジョージは息子ティミーを伴い、交通事故で大ケガをした妻アリスを運び込む。救助を要請しようとするが電話は不通だった。アリスをはねたのは女優キャロラインの運転手で元警官のエド。彼は病院へ向け車を走らせるが、途中で立ち往生し、やむなくモーテルへ引き返すことに…。ある時、ある一室で、既に死刑判決の下った事件について再審理が行われようとしている。ポイントとなっているのは、その事件の連続殺人犯である囚人が書いた日記だった。
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to affect the local weather, ultimately threatening the whole world.
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse
In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to the soul, about the certainty of shelter provided by those around us, about rebellion and vertigo in the face of life. About growing up.
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.
A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to lessen their impact, storms have to run their course, and there is really not much we can do about them.
Iceland is one of the wildest places on earth. You could be caught up in the midst of snowstorms and blizzards, but you are never alone... Although tourists from all over the world have started a silent invasion, nature keeps on winning.
Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy weather experienced on other planets.
A WWII paratrooper gets lost in a forest as the line between reality and memory begins to blur.
Presenter Hannah Fry reveals how much our planet can change in just a single day and how these daily changes are essential to our existence.
The BBC looks at our current weather and climate compared to the climate of our past to see if it really is changing...which it is and they explain science behind it
As co-created by environmentalists Stephan Poulle and Nicolas Koutsikas, the documentary Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age argues and provides evidence for the idea that mankind is wreaking permanent and potentially irreversible damage on the ecosystem by interfering with the natural course of the Gulf Stream. Koutsikas and Poulle suggest that this interference, in turn, will prompt a new Ice Age that virtually destroys the modern world.
Director Murray Siples' love/hate letter to Vancouver weather captures both the mundane and the thrilling experience of living on the West (wet) Coast. The winter rain colours every aspect of city life, but people cope, wielding umbrellas like swords, clutching coats and hats against the constant deluge.
Short documentary about cyclones.
Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted daily activities. Stories include the helicopter rescue of an expectant mother, effects on emergency services, and methods people used to survive without electricity and heat.
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.