Earthquake Movies

Survivors of the February 6, 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye recount their experiences of the disaster, its aftermath and the solidarity that followed. Th...

"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajić about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (Skoplje, per film title, is the Serb...

The race to save the world's only dedicated Māori World War One Memorial from collapse reveals an unknown soldier's heroic story to the community he w...

The story of the 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake. The film primarily chronicles the fir...

Documentary about the aftermath of the earthquake that shook Juchitán, on the Mexican Pacific coast. It tells the story of Dxani -muxe seamstress- and...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco i...

“Archeology” and “Archive” share the same roots. Both words come from “Arkhé”, the Greek word for “origin”. In the ruins of buildings, lost forever b...

On February 6, 2023, an earthquake on the border of Turkey and Syria claims more than 55,000 lives. On this day, I am in an oncology center, 6 days si...

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

Moments after the earthquake, a young teacher in a village outside the town of Bam, scrambles from under the rubble and finds out that her colleagues...

What drives the small community of Frascaro, near Norcia, to remain tied to a land that never ceases to tremble? What moves its inhabitants to dig wit...

Songlines sung by earthquakes.

Jorge loses his wife and daughter in the 1985 earthquake; the tragedy drives him to become a rescuer—a way, he believes, to save his own family—and he...

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

Based on author's childhood memories of the devastating 1988 Spitak earthquake. The father and his two young kids are left without a home and above al...

An archive footage showing the last minute of Earth after a global disaster.

The love story of Bruno and Tiziana is turned upside down by the 59 seconds that wrote one of the most tragic pages of Italy's history – the earthquak...

When Los Angeles gets hit with a massive earthquake, how will America respond?

"Under the Debris" is a short photography film about waiting for the unknown and being trapped in the fear of losing loved ones, derived from the eart...