The Twister: Caught in the Storm

The Twister: Caught in the Storm (2025) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Alexandra Lacey centres the film on a single event: the May 22, 2011 tornado that tore through Joplin, Missouri and killed 158 people in minutes.

The footage was shot by residents during the storm itself — phones and cameras aimed at the funnel while it came down. That choice is what makes it hit differently from disaster documentaries built on archival news clips and talking-head retrospectives. The destruction here is unmediated. Survivors narrate what came before and after. The wind speaks for itself. Stream The Twister: Caught in the Storm online on iFILM.