Encounter with Disaster

Encounter with Disaster (1979)

Depicts assorted natural and human disasters, including the crash of the Hindenburg (1937), earthquakes in Alaska (1964) and Long Beach (1933), the LeMans auto racing crash at which 82 people were killed (1955), Hurrican Camille (1964), the eruption of the Mt. Etna volcano (1971), a tornado (1974), the collapse of Idaho's Teton Dam (1976), the sinking of the Andrea Doria (1956) and the Texas City explosion which devastated Galveston (1947).

Date of release
1979-03-07
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Documentary, History
Director
Charles E. Sellier Jr.

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