THEME EXPLORATION

industrial disaster

27 films · 3 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Concorde Affair
Concorde Affair
1979 · Ruggero Deodato
Apollo 13
Apollo 13
1995 · Ron Howard
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2018 · Stephen Nomura Schible
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Los amantes pasajeros (I’m So Excited!
Los amantes pasajeros (I’m So Excited!
2013 · Pedro Almodóvar
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Roland Emmerich
If All the Guys in the World
If All the Guys in the World
1956 · Christian-Jaque
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
Salt and Fire
Salt and Fire
2016 · Werner Herzog
San Andreas
San Andreas
2015 · Brad Peyton
Give You A Candy
Give You A Candy
2024 · Liu Jiangjiang
Brise-glace
Brise-glace
1990 · Jean Rouch
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
El arte del tabaco
El arte del tabaco
1974 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
TG Psychic Rally in Heaven
TG Psychic Rally in Heaven
1981 · Derek Jarman
The Crossing II
The Crossing II
2015 · John Woo
The Disaster in Oaxaca
The Disaster in Oaxaca
1931 · Sergei Eisenstein
The Golden Thread
The Golden Thread
1965 · Ritwik Ghatak
The Impossible
The Impossible
2012 · J. A. Bayona
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
1967 · Peter Greenaway
Happy Feet Two
Happy Feet Two
2011 · George Miller
Everest
Everest
2015 · Baltasar Kormákur
Kino-Pravda No. 10
Kino-Pravda No. 10
1922 · Dziga Vertov
Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
Work Party (also Factory Family ) (, 35mm, b&w, sound, 7 minutes
1942 · Len Lye
Crawl
Crawl
2019 · Alexandre Aja
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Kathryn Bigelow United States

Her film 'K-19: The Widowmaker' meticulously explores the catastrophic failure of a Soviet nuclear submarine, examining human courage amid industrial catastrophe.

 Claude Chabrol France

His work often dissects the moral and systemic failures behind disasters, particularly in 'Lacombe, Lucien' and other films examining institutional breakdown.

 Werner Herzog Germany

Herzog's documentaries and films like 'Grizzly Man' and his exploration of human hubris against nature reveal the catastrophic consequences of industrial ambition and human folly.