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List of disaster films
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This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster presented.
Man-made disasters
- Ablaze (2001)[1]
- Backdraft (1991)[2]
- The Burning Sea (2021)[3][4]
- City on Fire (1979)[5]
- The Core (2003)[6]
- Crack in the World (1965)[7]
- Dante's Inferno (1935)[8]
- Daylight (1996)[9]
- Deepwater Horizon (2016)[10]
- Fire! (1977)[11]
- Firestorm (1998)[12]
- In Old Chicago (1937)[13]
- Ladder 49 (2004)[14]
- Pandora (2016)[15]
- Red Skies of Montana (1952)[16]
- The Tower (2012)[17]
- The Towering Inferno (1974)[18]
- Trapped (2001)[19]
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Natural disasters
- 10.0 Earthquake (2014)[20]
- 10.5 (2004)[21]
- 13 Minutes (2021)[22]
- 2012 (2009)[23]
- 2012: Doomsday (2008)[24]
- After the Shock (1990)[25]
- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)[26]
- Armageddon (1998)[27]
- Asteroid (1997)[28]
- Avalanche (1978)[29]
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)[30]
- California Firestorm (2002)[31]
- Christmas Icetastrophe (2014)[32]
- Christmas Twister (2012)[33]
- Cyclone (1978)[34]
- Dante's Peak (1997)[35]
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004)[36]
- Deep Impact (1998)[37]
- Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."[25]
- Devil Winds (2003)[38]
- Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)[39]
- Earthquake (1974)[40]
- Earthquake in New York (1998)[41]
- Fire Twister (2015)[42]
- Flood (2007)[43]
- Flood! (1976)[44]
- Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)[45]
- Geostorm (2017)[46]
- The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)[41]
- Greenland (2020)[47]
- Hard Rain (1998)[48]
- Heatwave! (1974)[49]
- The Hurricane (1937)[50]
- Hurricane (1979)[51]
- Ice (1998)[52]
- The Impossible (2012)[53]
- Into the Storm (2014)[54]
- Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)[55]
- Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)[56]
- Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)[57]
- Meteor (1979)[58]
- Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)[59]
- Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)[60]
- Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)[61]
- Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005)[62]
- Night of the Twisters (1996)[63]
- The Night the World Exploded (1957)[64]
- NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)[65]
- On Hostile Ground (2000)[66]
- The Perfect Storm (2000)[67]
- Pompeii (2014)[68]
- Poseidon (2006)[69]
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[70]
- The Quake (2018)[71]
- The Rains Came (1939)[72]
- Raise the Titanic (1980)[73]
- S.O.S. Titanic (1979)[74]
- San Andreas (2015)[75]
- San Francisco (1936)[76]
- Seattle Superstorm (2012)[77]
- St. Helens (1981)[78]
- Storm (1999)[79]
- Super Cyclone (2012)[80]
- The Happening (2008)[81]
- Tidal Wave (1973)[82]
- Tidal Wave (2009)[83]
- Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)[84]
- Titanic (1953)[85]
- Titanic (1996)[86]
- Titanic (1997)[87]
- Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)[88]
- Tornado! (1996)[89]
- Tornado Warning (2002)[90]
- Twister (1996)[91]
- Twisters (2024)[92]
- Tycus (1998)[93]
- Volcano (1997)[94]
- The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano, 2005)[95]
- Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)[96]
- The Wave (2015)[97][98]
- When Time Ran Out (1980)[99]
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End of days
- The Day After (1983)[100]
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)[101]
- When Worlds Collide (1951)[102]
- Knowing (2009)[103]
Aircraft
- Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films[104]
- Airport (1970 film), a film based on Arthur Hailey's book
- Airport 1975, sequel to the 1970 film
- Airport '77, sequel to Airport 1975
- The Concorde ... Airport '79, 1979 sequel to Airport '77
- Airspeed (1998)[105]
- Alive (1993)[106]
- The Doomsday Flight (1966)[107]
- Fire and Rain (1989)[107]
- The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)[108]
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004)[109]
- The High and the Mighty (1954)[107]
- The Hindenburg (1975)[110]
- Sully (2016)[111]
- Survive! (1976)[112]
- Turbulence (1997)[113]
- United 93 (2006)[114]
- Zero Hour! (1957)[115]
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The atomic age
- Atomic Train (1999)[116]
- Atomic Twister (2002)[117]
- Control (1987)[118]
- Friend of the World (2020)[119]
- The Lost Missile (1958)[120]
- Miracle Mile (1988)[121]
- On the Beach (1959)[122]
- Panic in Year Zero! (1962)[117]
Epidemics and pandemics
- The Andromeda Strain (1971)[123]
- The Cassandra Crossing (1976)[124]
- Contagion (2011)[125]
- Outbreak (1995)[126]
- Perfect Sense (2011)[127]
- Plague (1979)[117]
- The Stand (1994)[128]
- Virus (1980)[129]
- Virus (1995)[130]
- Warning Sign (1985)[131]
Shipwrecks
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)[132]
- Britannic (2000)[88]
- The Finest Hours (2016)[133][134][135]
- Gray Lady Down (1978)[136]
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)[137]
- The Last Voyage (1960)[132]
- A Night to Remember (1958)[138]
- Poseidon (2006)[132]
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[132]
- The Poseidon Adventure (2005)[132]
- Raise the Titanic (1980)[73]
- S.O.S. Titanic (1979)[74]
- Titanic (1953)[85]
- Titanic (1996)[86]
- Titanic (1997)[87]
- Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)[88]
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See also
References
Bibliography
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