The Hurricane of '38
1993•54m•Released
Documentary
In September of 1938, a great storm rose up on the coast of West Africa and began making its way across the Atlantic Ocean. The National Weather Bureau learned about it from merchant ships at sea and predicted it would blow itself out at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as such storms usually did. Within 24 hours, the storm ripped into the New England shore with enough fury to set off seismographs in Sitka, Alaska. Traveling at a shocking 60 miles per hour -- three times faster than most tropical storms -- it was astonishingly swift and powerful, with peak wind gusts up to 186 mph. Over 600 people were killed, most by drowning. Another hundred were never found. Property damage was estimated at $400 million -- over 8,000 homes were destroyed, 6,000 boats wrecked or damaged.
Writer
Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon
Languages
English
Studio
Lennon Documentary Group
Cast
David McCullough
Narrator (voice)
Production
Company
Lennon Documentary Group
Producer
Thomas Lennon
Producer
Michael Epstein
Recommended
7.1
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.2
Black Sheep
2018
7.2
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
2022
6.4
A Toxic Love Story
2026
8.5
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013
7.7
Earth: One Amazing Day
2017
7
Directed by John Ford
1971
7.8
Being James Bond
2021
7.7
Before the Flood
2016
8
My Mom Jayne
2025
6.4
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life
2017
7.4
49 Up
2006
7.2
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022
7.4
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.6
42 Up
1999
7.5
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
7.2
The Curse of the Dragon
1993
6.8
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
2022
7.1
Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea
2026
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
Similar Movies
7.4
Under an Arctic Sky
2017
6.7
Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead
2019
7
Burning
2021
7.5
Storm Children
2014
Pompeii's Living Dead
2018
THE EARTHQUAKE
0
Kaikōura: A Big Year
2018
6.9
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
2011
Trembling Mountain
0
Superstorm USA: Caught on Camera
2012
The Tides Will Decide
2025
5
Wrath of Gods
2007
8
Stanotte a Pompei
2018
6.3
Closed for Storm
2020
8
The Rescue
2021
7.4
Sherpa
2015
Water at the Door: The High River Flood
2013
Den största branden
2014
7.5
The Johnstown Flood
2003
Is our weather getting worse?
2012