List of disaster films

Template:Short description Template:Lists of films 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)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Backdraft (1991)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Burning Sea (2021)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• City on Fire (1979)Template:Sfn
• The Core (2003)Template:Sfn
• Crack in the World (1965)Template:Sfn
• Dante's Inferno (1935)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Daylight (1996)Template:Sfn
• Deepwater Horizon (2016)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Fire! (1977)Template:Sfn
• Firestorm (1998)Template:Sfn
• In Old Chicago (1937)Template:Sfn
• Ladder 49 (2004)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Pandora (2016)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)<ref>Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1972. p.155 Template:ISBN</ref>
• The Tower (2012)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Towering Inferno (1974)Template:Sfn
• Trapped (2001)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Natural disasters

• 10.0 Earthquake (2014)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 10.5 (2004)Template:Sfn
• 13 Minutes (2021)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2012 (2009)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2012: Doomsday (2008)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• After the Shock (1990)Template:Sfn
• Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)Template:Sfn
• Armageddon (1998)Template:Sfn
• Asteroid (1997)Template:Sfn
• Avalanche (1978)Template:Sfn
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)Template:Sfn
• California Firestorm (2002)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Christmas Icetastrophe (2014)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Christmas Twister (2012)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Cyclone (1978)Template:Sfn
• Dante's Peak (1997)Template:Sfn
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)Template:Sfn
• Deep Impact (1998)Template:Sfn
• Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."Template:Sfn
• Devil Winds (2003)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Earthquake (1974)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Earthquake in New York (1998)Template:Sfn
• Fire Twister (2015)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Flood (2007)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Flood! (1976)Template:Sfn
• Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Geostorm (2017)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)Template:Sfn
• Greenland (2020)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Hard Rain (1998)Template:Sfn
• Heatwave! (1974)Template:Sfn
• The Hurricane (1937)Template:Sfn
• Hurricane (1979)Template:Sfn
• Ice (1998)<ref>Ice</ref>
• The Impossible (2012)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Into the Storm (2014)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)Template:Sfn
• Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Meteor (1979)Template:Sfn
• Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Night of the Twisters (1996)Template:Sfn
• The Night the World Exploded (1957)Template:Sfn
• NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• On Hostile Ground (2000)Template:Sfn
• The Perfect Storm (2000)Template:Sfn
• Pompeii (2014)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Poseidon (2006)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)Template:Sfn
• The Quake (2018)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Rains Came (1939)Template:Sfn
• Raise the Titanic (1980)Template:Sfn
• S.O.S. Titanic (1979)Template:Sfn
• San Andreas (2015)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• San Francisco (1936)Template:Sfn
• Seattle Superstorm (2012)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• St. Helens (1981)Template:Sfn
• Storm (1999)Template:Sfn
• Super Cyclone (2012)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Happening (2008)<ref>https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-happening-am19217 AllMovie. Retrieved January 21, 2024</ref>
• Tidal Wave (1973)Template:Sfn
• Tidal Wave (2009)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Titanic (1953)Template:Sfn
• Titanic (1996)Template:Sfn
• Titanic (1997)Template:Sfn
• Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)Template:Sfn
• Tornado! (1996)Template:Sfn
• Tornado Warning (2002)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Twister (1996)Template:Sfn
• Twisters (2024)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Tycus (1998)Template:Sfn
• Volcano (1997)Template:Sfn
• The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano, 2005)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)Template:Sfn
• The Wave (2015)<ref>The Wave, Magnolia Home Entertainment, DVD, 2016, film released 2015</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• When Time Ran Out (1980)Template:Sfn

End of days

• The Day After (1983)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)Template:Sfn
• When Worlds Collide (1951)Template:Sfn
• Knowing (2009)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Aircraft

• Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster filmsTemplate:Sfn
  • 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)Template:Sfn
• Alive (1993)Template:Sfn
• The Doomsday Flight (1966)Template:Sfn
• Fire and Rain (1989)Template:Sfn
• The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)Template:Sfn
• Flight of the Phoenix (2004)Template:Sfn
• The High and the Mighty (1954)Template:Sfn
• The Hindenburg (1975)Template:Sfn
• Sully (2016)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Survive! (1976)Template:Sfn
• Turbulence (1997)Template:Sfn
• United 93 (2006)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Zero Hour! (1957)Template:Sfn

The atomic age

• Atomic Train (1999)Template:Sfn
• Atomic Twister (2002)Template:Sfn
• Control (1987)Template:Sfn
• Friend of the World (2020)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Lost Missile (1958)<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• Miracle Mile (1988)Template:Sfn
• On the Beach (1959)Template:Sfn
• Panic in Year Zero! (1962)Template:Sfn

Epidemics and pandemics

• The Andromeda Strain (1971)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)Template:Sfn
• Contagion (2011)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Outbreak (1995)Template:Sfn
• Perfect Sense (2011)<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• Plague (1979)Template:Sfn
• The Stand (1994)Template:Sfn
• Virus (1980)Template:Sfn
• Virus (1995)Template:Sfn
• Warning Sign (1985)Template:Sfn

Shipwrecks

• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)Template:Sfn
• Britannic (2000)Template:Sfn
• The Finest Hours (2016)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• Gray Lady Down (1978)Template:Sfn
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)Template:Sfn
• The Last Voyage (1960)Template:Sfn
• A Night to Remember (1958)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Poseidon (2006)Template:Sfn
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)Template:Sfn
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005)Template:Sfn
• Raise the Titanic (1980)Template:Sfn
• S.O.S. Titanic (1979)Template:Sfn
• Titanic (1953)Template:Sfn
• Titanic (1996)Template:Sfn
• Titanic (1997)Template:Sfn
• Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)Template:Sfn

See also

• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
• Cultural significance of tornadoes § Motion pictures with a tornado theme
• List of apocalyptic films
• List of firefighting films
• List of monster movies
• List of natural horror films
• List of zombie films
• Survival film

Bibliography

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