Films and Music
- BBC Timewatch made a documentary about The North Sea flood of 1953, called The Greatest Storm.
- An episode of the ITV series Savage Planet also featured the flood.
- In January 2008 the Brighton-based band British Sea Power released their 3rd album entitled "Do You Like Rock Music?" which includes the song "Canvey Island", about the 1953 North Sea floods.
- The Dutch public broadcasting foundation has made numerous documentaries featuring the North Sea flood of 1953. They have also made two English versions of what were originally Dutch documentaries. The titles of these documentaries are "The Greatest Storm" and "1953, the year of the beast".
- The 1953 Floods were mentioned in detail in the 2007 Film 'Flood'.
- In 2009 a Dutch action-drama titled "De Storm" (The Storm) was released.
- The book The Little Ark by Jan de Hartog, published in 1953, depicted the flood, and was made into a film by the same name in 1972. They made mobile weirs to help prevent flooding even worse.
- The composition Requiem Aeternam 1953 by Douwe Eisenga was written as a commemoration of the flood.
- The short story, "The Netherlands Lives with Water," by Jim Shepard, contains a passage describing the event.
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