At around quarter past nine on the morning of Friday 21 October 1966, disaster struck the coal mining village of Aberfan in South Wales. What began as a typical morning escalated quickly into tragedy ...

A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known acting talent, including Michael Sheen, Jonathan ...

But I cannot think of any better term than sacred to describe the 60 quietly shattering minutes of viewing that were Aberfan: The Green Hollow. BBC One Wales broadcast this film first on Friday, the ...

With archive film and new interviews, survivors of the Aberfan disaster tell their stories of tragic loss, miraculous survival, and heroic rescue. Some talk for the first time about the most harrowing ...

Documentary about the tragedy which struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan in 1966, when a mountain of coal slurry engulfed a school, claiming 144 lives, many of them children.

On October 21, 1966, the students and teachers of Pantglas Junior School in Aberfan, a small village in Wales, were about to begin their lessons when disaster struck. A nearby "spoil tip" (or surplus ...

I must admit that as an amateur expert on horrible disasters (I refuse to call this particular one a “natural” disaster, as the National Coal Board was entirely to blame and also refused to give all ...