11 Disaster Films Based on Real Events

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The Perfect Storm (2000)

In 1991, on Halloween Day, a powerful hurricane swept over the Atlantic Ocean, which suddenly caught the small fishing vessel Andrea Gale in the middle of the sea. During the filming of this picture, all the actors not only suffered massively from seasickness, but were also exposed to real danger. The lead actor Mark Wahlberg nearly drowned while shooting one of the scenes where he was supposed to perform a difficult trick.

A Young Trucker Told About Her Work

There are some women who are not afraid to go beyond the generally accepted framework and do as their hearts tell them, even if it alerts the society and raises a lot of perplexing questions. Ekaterina Mironova, a trucker from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia is just such a woman. She told about her work, a 20-ton truck and the dangers on the road in one of the interviews ...

Al Capone`s Prison

The world's first correctional prison in Philadelphia, with the full name of Eastern State Penitentiary, first received a prisoner in 1829. For more than 100 years of work, a lot of villains and criminals were there, one of which was the well-known mafia boss Al Capone. How was this place different from other prisons and what does it look like now? More on this later ...