The Great San Francisco Earthquake

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president,...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation. As a former president,...

"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...

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

Restoration expert Giancarlo Napoli takes on the important task of saving 86 plaster casts of Pompeii citizens that were created by archaeologist...

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower.

National Geographic gets 10 experts to pick the most significant natural disasters ever, adding eyewitness accounts and CGI to flesh out the stories.

Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th...

It is the largest fire in Sweden, in modern times. In the pressing summer heat, a small forest fire started in the forests of Västmanland. But...