Check out all of the posts tagged with "disaster".
The 1973 Indian film Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket] is director Satyajit Ray’s moving look at the horrifying effects of the Bengali famine in 1943, viewed in microcosm through the lives of a warm-hearted doctor-teacher Gangacharan […]
Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s critically praised first feature-length film The Falls (1980), funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), represents case histories of, or interviews with, 92 characters (played by the director’s friends) taken from an imaginary […]
Director Thomas Vinterberg’s sterling, well-told, convincing, compelling film version of the true-life tragic story of the 2000 Russian K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is a worthwhile, immersive but challenging and harrowing experience. Kursk: The Last Mission […]
Director John Guillermin bids you welcome to captain Charlton Heston’s Boeing 707 supposedly bound for Minneapolis but unfortunately for the passengers it is hijacked by a crazed Vietnam vet bomber, who demands to be taken […]
All aboard the ultimately luxurious coach for director James Frawley’s 1976 The Big Bus, a hilarious parody of Seventies disaster movies in which drivers Dan Torrance and Shoulders (played by Joseph Bologna and John Beck) […]
A wicked French colony Governor (Raymond Massey) and a typhoon strike the Polynesian Island of Manukura hard, in director John Ford’s rousing 1937 South Seas adventure movie The Hurricane, famed for its climactic special effects […]
The 1939 romantic adventure film The Rains Came stars Tyrone Power as an Indian nobleman, trained as a doctor in America, who returns to India, where he dallies with English married woman (Myrna Loy). It […]