Encounter with Disaster

Encounter with Disaster

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 7, 1979

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

57%

Original Title

Encounter with Disaster

Production Companies

Sunn Classic Pictures, Jensen Farley Pictures

Director

Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Description

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).