The Blizzard of '49

It is the largest fire in Sweden, in modern times. In the pressing summer heat, a small forest fire started in the forests of Västmanland. But it prov...

On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a 40-foot wall of water. The bustling industrial cit...

In the 1960s, the US government came up with an experimental plan supported by the oil companies to try using nuclear explosions to extract natural ga...

On January 8, 2005, the storm Gudrun pulled over southern Sweden and large parts of the Småland forest blew down. How do you cope when your food disap...

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull...

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-i...

Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.

The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.

"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall--j...

As co-created by environmentalists Stephan Poulle and Nicolas Koutsikas, the documentary Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age argues and provides evidence...

An intimate and thrilling portrait of a young Siksika woman and the deep bonds between her father and family in the golden plains of Blackfoot Territo...

The last representatives of Mixteco culture inhabit a village in the Sierra Madre. Deprived of their identity by modern civilization, they are facing...

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

Dashing through the snow; on a six-horse open plough... The streets are ready for sledging in 1920s Buxton.

Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami forecasting.