Every year, many disasters happen in the world, the tragic consequences of which are remembered for many years. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, explosions in factories and factories, oil spills on the surface of the oceans, the crash of aircraft and trains - all these events bring fear, pain and tears. It is impossible to predict the occurrence of a tragedy accurate to the minute. However, to reduce the risk of the occurrence of an event or to reduce the scale of a disaster is humanity's power.
Using bitter experience
Any crash of an aircraft is a catastrophe, the consequences of which are experienced not only by the families of the victims, but also by the whole society. The death of people is always painful and scary. Each plane crash is a kind of lesson for mankind. Using the mistakes that led to this or that tragedy, people learn to build safer planes, quickly evacuate passengers and overcome crisis situations. The lives of many people were saved only due to the fact that once an aircraft crash occurred.
Screen adaptation of terrible tragedies
Currently, filmmakers around the world are making films about air crashes. The plot of some of them is based on fictional stories. However, there are documentaries. The crash described in such tapes actually happened. The plot of the picture, as a rule, is based on the memories of the surviving pilots and passengers, eyewitnesses of the tragedies, the opinions of experts on aviation and other information. Real events and non-fictional facts are the basis of all documentaries. The description in the film of a plane crash, earthquake, or other sad event has several purposes. The first is the disclosure of the cause of the tragedy. The second is the desire to show how to behave properly in an extreme situation. The third is a reduction in the risk of the recurrence of a particular tragedy.
Films about plane crashes are filmed in many countries. Through the mouths of directors, Russia, the United Kingdom, the USA, Japan, and many other states talk about the tragedies that occurred with their ships. This is primarily true for documentary tapes. Many of the shots also contain fictional facts and fictional characters. However, the directors of these works thus seek to show the public the possible consequences of a particular incident, or the negligence of one person.
Documentary Series from Canada
A little over 10 years ago, the National Geographic Channel began broadcasting the film, “Crash Investigation.” The birthplace of this series is Canada. It was in Toronto that a group of people had the idea to film all the tragedies that happened in the sky and release them for public viewing under one common name. To date, more than sixty episodes have aired, each of which is a forty-minute film-plane crash. Each issue is based on real events. Any of the series has the following structure: the film tells about the tragedy of one, less often two, aircraft. Its first part is a kind of historical reconstruction of the events that took place. It describes in detail all the moments that somehow influenced the tragedy. In order to accurately recover the disaster, all possible means are used: the recollections of eyewitnesses and surviving passengers, data from flight recorders, etc.
The second half of the series reveals to the viewer the causes of the crash. Here there are interviews with various experts who help to dot all the "i". As a final point, the conclusions of the commission of inquiry are given and the errors of the crew, manufacturers, dispatchers, maintenance personnel or any other person who somehow influenced the accident are demonstrated. Some episodes contain an explanatory part that describes in detail how to prevent a disaster, and what steps are being taken to prevent similar monstrous incidents in the future.
Russian-American product
There are also international documentaries. The air crashes described in them unite not only countries, but also continents. For example, a film based on real events, released in 1997 in collaboration with film companies in Russia and the United States. The title of the film - “Air disasters of the world” - speaks for itself. Having stepped onto the plane ladder, the passenger ceases to belong to himself. His fate is completely in the hands of those who designed and manufactured the aircraft, those who sit in the cockpit in the place of the pilot, and those who control and service the aircraft from the control seat.
The real events underlying the film are riveting to the viewer screen with their exciting details. The film does not contain embellished moments. There are no Hollywood special effects. Without exaggeration, the director of this picture is fate and providence itself. As scriptwriters - black boxes of airplanes, and the main characters of the film are metal "carcasses" of Boeing, Stelz, and Moments, who entered the struggle for survival and who were tragically unlucky ...
Air disasters
For people who want to learn more about the tragic stories that happened in the sky, there are other films about air crashes. The list is very long. Each of them shows the viewer a story with a tragic end. For example, the Discovery Channel series of documentaries, “Aircrash Confidential,” which translates as “Air crashes.” Top secret". This series was released in 2012. In each series, the events of aircraft crashes of various airlines are clearly and clearly detailed.
“Seconds to a Disaster”
The British directors Steve Webb, Dan Gold and Paul Burgess decided to combine into a single whole all the tragedies that have ever happened on the planet and around it, and to release a multi-part film that tells about these events. They succeeded brilliantly. In 2004, the first episode of a large project entitled “Seconds to a Disaster” was released on television. As in many other similar series, in this English version for the reconstruction of historical events, witness testimonies of eyewitnesses and participants in terrible events were used, as well as various documents and media. The main difference between this film and similar products is the story of absolutely all the tragedies: natural disasters, technological accidents, train and car crashes, explosions, terrorist attacks, wars, etc. The series also contains short films about air crashes.
Living: The Story of the Survivors in the Andes
Let us turn our eyes to the more recent events. In 1972, a Uruguayan plane crashed over the Andes. On board the ship was a rugby team, their relatives and friends. All these people flew to Santiago for a friendly match. However, fate decreed otherwise. Their plane did not reach Chile. In dense fog, the pilot did not see the rocky peaks of the mountain peaks and accidentally touched one of them with a wing. As a result, the airbus crashed onto a rocky chain. Thanks to the snow cover, the blow was softened, and most of the people survived. Now they have one goal: to survive until the rescuers arrive. Cold, lack of simple tourist equipment and quickly running out of supplies left the group of survivors with a difficult choice: either die, or neglect moral principles and ... start eating human meat. These and many other events initially formed the basis of Pierre Paul Reed's book, The Living: The Story of the Survivors in the Andes. And in the early 90s, the American director Frank Marshall decided to film the work, and already in 1992 a film called “Alive” was released.
Hindenburg
The best films about air crashes began to appear on large screens in the middle of the twentieth century. For example, Robert Wise’s American tape called Hindenburg. The picture was released in 1975. She tells of the crash of the same aircraft. The ruling Nazi elite desired to have a huge airship, which would be a symbol of the infinite power of Germany. In 1937, an aircraft carrier under the command of Max Pruss sets off on a long journey from the Old to the New World. No one suspected that there was a saboteur on board the airship, setting itself the goal of destroying the German heritage.
Of course, there are few people in the world who remain indifferent to the tragedy, be it the earthquake in Japan, the explosion of a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, or the release of oil into the open ocean. Against the background of the events that have occurred, many directors and scriptwriters create exciting films about air crashes. Artistic tapes, unlike documentaries, contain many fictional events. However, this does not in any way detract from the dignity of a particular masterpiece.
The death of the Titanic and the tragedy of Thailand
Many of the tragedies that occurred (tsunamis, earthquakes, atomic explosions and others) were embodied on the screen in the works of famous directors. It is worth recalling the infamous Titanic. The artistic treatment in no way distorted the whole essence of the documentary narrative. The plausible details and the sincere lively play of the actors undoubtedly make this film a masterpiece of the twentieth century.
In 2004, a terrible tsunami hit the Thai coastal line, causing the death of a huge number of people. About 300 thousand tourists and local residents were buried alive under the weight of the killer waves. This worldwide tragedy formed the basis of many works, including in the film industry. The Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayonne in his film entitled "Impossible" tried to recreate the tragedy that happened on that terrible December day. And he succeeded brilliantly. Surviving yourself or saving loved ones - this difficult choice falls on the lot of many people who find themselves in an extreme situation.