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From wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes to train derailments, highway pileups, and mudslides, when it comes to disasters, ...
Preview of NBC's Survival Mode series, which focuses on the survivors of devastating disasters. Premieres on July 7, 2025.
JOPLIN, Mo. — On May 22, 2011, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history since modern record-keeping tore through Joplin, Missouri, claiming the lives of over 150 people. That was 14 years ago. 5 On ...
Netflix’s latest documentary, The Twister: Caught in the Storm, brings harrowing firsthand accounts of survival from the 2011 Joplin tornado, one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in ...
Steven Weersing, who survived the Joplin tornado in 2011 and the fungus that the twister helped spread. Courtesy of Netflix “Steven had about a 5% chance of survival,” said his friend Doug.
Director-writer Alexandra Lacey now turns her attention to Joplin, Missouri. In 2011, a devastating EF5 tornado struck the Bible Belt town, killing over 150 people and injuring a thousand.
Netflix’s latest documentary, The Twister: Caught in the Storm, provides a harrowing look at the EF-5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. Directed by Alexandra Lacey ...
By the time the tornado petered out past Duquesne, a small city to the east, it had destroyed some 8,000 buildings and 18,000 trees. The tornado killed 161 people, making it the 7th-deadliest in U ...
JOPLIN, Mo. — A new documentary about the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, tornado is coming to Netflix. The streaming service posted a trailer for the "coming-of-age documentary" on Thursday.
Netflix is set to release a documentary on the 2011 Joplin tornado. The Twister: Caught in the Storm is a feature-length documentary told from the perspective of a number of young people who ...