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7 April 2020
Landslides in Art Part 32: The Jungle Book
In the 2016 Walt Disney film The Jungle Book, the main character (Mowgli) gets caught in a large landslide triggered by heavy rainfall.
27 February 2016
Vajont – La diga del disonore: the landslide scene
The Italian film Vajont – La diga del disonore (2001) provided a dramatisation of the events of the 1963 Vajont landslide disaster in 1963. The dramatic and harrowing landslide scene is now available on Youtube
1 December 2014
Landslides in the Movies Part 2: The Railway Children (1970)
The 1970 movie The Railway Children featured a translational landslide that blocked a railway track. Fortunately three children were on hand to save the day
7 October 2014
Landslides in the movies part 1: The Croods
Part 1 of a series looking at how landslides are depicted in movies. This edition looks at a rockfall sequence in the animated movie The Croods (2013)
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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