Tsunami: Caught On Camera Part One

Christmas Day 2004, and across the Indian Ocean, tourists from around the globe are enjoying dream holidays in the sun. But none of them know that the very next day their video cameras will capture one of the most devastating natural disasters in recorded history, which will leave nearly 300,000 dead in eleven countries.

Five years on, and told almost entirely using amateur footage, much of it never broadcast before, Tsunami: Caught on Camera is the moving true story of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami told through the eyes of those who were actually there.

Shot by ordinary people across the Tsunami's huge impact area, the remarkable amateur footage reveals what happened when the waves, caused by a massive underwater earthquake, hit land.

This powerful, bold and intimate film reveals what it was like to be caught up in the events of that day and tells stories of panic and heart-breaking loss, as well as courage and miraculous survival.

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• asian
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• flood
• earthquake

[JoMichelle00]

Yes it is. Very sad.

[joeblowthehot]

Noahs ark..thats ironic

[qedqwafeatg1337]

@joeblowthehot that guy with the noahs ark was also singing "the perfect wave - juli" on 24. u noticed ironic too...

[Fabulistic247]

Were the little babies in the beginning alive still? God i hope so, this kills my heart...

[MegaAnwar82]

that guy standing in front of the wave thinks he is moses..he thought he could make the wave apart.

[liquidmetal12]

NO! Daniel! WAVE!!!

[limojag]

i just wonder why people see something like that coming, and they just walk instead of running? at least until it's too late...

[ztwntyn8]

I wonder what would have or did happen to people scuba diving? I mean up till it breaks on the shore it realy has no flow right? I think you would feel something as it passed you but I bet if you didn't surface until it was over then you would come up and no boat and ofourse everything else would be gone but I bet you'd be ok.

[phambo101]

Gosh man, I sure wish I can speak German...It is among the sweetest languages out there!!!

[spinalcrackerbox]

@qedqwafeatg1337 That was a popular song in Germany couple of years ago. Seemed like a good place to quote that song without knowing what would happen...

[BrawlerSucker]

very sad



[catja999]

Very good documentary. Heartbreaking.