Even now, Japanese tsunami footage can leave us open-mouthed.
And this, slower but with somehow more dramatic depth.
If Metafilter is right, everyone in these images got out alive.
In a general discussion of public broadcasters and user-generated content at the INPUT conference in 2012, we explored a 2012 Japanese documentary about the tsunami. It explains some of the cultural factors behind the impulse to record, and the reasons for the fires.