On the Edge of Destruction: The Frank Slide Story

2003 • Directed by

Matt Palmer

April 29, 1903, the coal mining town of Frank, in the Crowsnest Pass of the southern Canadian Rockies, was shattered by the sudden roar of a landslide, earning Frank a place of history as the site of North America's deadliest rockslide. This film explores the coincidences and explains its geological conditions.