Documentary
The Defense Civil Preparedness Agency began an informational campaign in 1972 called Your Chance to Live. As part of the campaign, a series of films was released along with a companion book. Each installment covers a different disaster scenario, including tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, forest fires, blackouts and a nuclear disaster. The California Department of Education helped produce the films and hosted a workshop of educational professionals to discuss the best ways to present the desired emergency preparedness information to school age audiences. The process was filmed and assembled, along with clips from each production, and distributed as an Instructor's Guide in 1975.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Enxame
Encounter with Disaster
Vecinos del volcán
The 11th Hour
Playing with Fire
Such a Stupid Way to Die
Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences
Shake Hands with Danger
Siberian Apocalypse
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Open files
The Nightingale Sings
More Dangerous Than Dynamite
More High Impact Forklift Safety
A Global Warning?
Trouble the Water
Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami?
Burning
Anatomy of a Disaster: Explosion at BP Texas City Refinery
1928: The Year the Thames Flooded
SIMILAR MOVIES
Enxame
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
Encounter with Disaster
IMDB 5.7 | Mar , 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).Vecinos del volcán
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
The 11th Hour
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 2007
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James WoolsePlaying with Fire
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1947
You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.Such a Stupid Way to Die
IMDB 0 | May , 1971
An educational short made by the New Zealand National Film Unit for the National Mountain Safety Council to promote awareness of bush safety.Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences
IMDB 8.2 | Dec , 2024
It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean. More than 230,000 people died, including many holidaymakers from Germany and France. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary, survivors tell their stories. How has the disaster affected their lives to this day?Shake Hands with Danger
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 1980
This short cautionary training film examines dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.Siberian Apocalypse
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2006
This astounding documentary delves into the mysteries of the Tunguska event – one of the largest cosmic disasters in the history of civilisation. At 7.15 am, on 30th June 1908, a giant fireball, as bright the sun, exploded in the sky over Tunguska in central Siberia. Its force was equivalent to twenty million tonnes of TNT, and a thousand times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. An estimated sixty million trees were felled over an area of over two thousand square kilometres - an area over half the size of Rhode Island. If the explosion had occurred over London or Paris, hundreds of thousands of people would have been killed.The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 2022
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do extraordinary things, placing this tragic event within the larger context of nature, resilience, and the power of our shared humanity.Open files
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1975
A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.The Nightingale Sings
IMDB 8.5 | Nov , 2019
The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries, creators of the film prove that a nation cannot exist without a language.More Dangerous Than Dynamite
IMDB 3.4 | Nov , 1941
A short film warning the unaware housewife of the dangers of “dry cleaning” with gasoline at home.More High Impact Forklift Safety
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2004
With graphic re-enactments of industrial accidents, the More High Impact Forklift Safety Video gives viewers a scared-straight lesson on the importance of forklift safety. This forklift video is great for training your forklift operators on accident awareness and prevention.A Global Warning?
IMDB 4 | Nov , 2007
Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.Trouble the Water
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 2008
"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall--just blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that most tourists knew. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video camera on herself and her Ninth Ward neighbors trapped in the city. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verité and in-your-face filmmaking, it is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.Could We Survive a Mega-Tsunami?
IMDB 3.7 | Apr , 2013
Starting off a kilometre high, travelling at the speed of a jet aircraft, and heading for us. It doesn't make for a good outcome. Hollywood-style graphics and real-life archive bring home an imagined near-future scenario, all based on cutting-edge science. —TrevorBurning
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2021
Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an exploration of what happened as told from the perspective of victims of the fires, activists and scientists.Anatomy of a Disaster: Explosion at BP Texas City Refinery
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2008
This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments to describe and discuss its detailed investigation into the March 23 2005 explosion of the ISOM (isomerization) unit at the BP (British Petroleum) refinery at Texas City, Texas. The explosion killed 15 workers, injured 180 others, and cost BP billions of dollars.1928: The Year the Thames Flooded
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
Exploring one of the most devastating but little-known disasters in London's history, this documentary reveals the shocking events that unfolded during the fateful Thames Flood of 1928.