List of disaster 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
- Backdraft (1991) [1]
- City on Fire (1979) [2]
- Daylight (1997) [3]
- Fire! (1977) [4]
- Firestorm (1998) [5]
- In Old Chicago (1937) [6]
- The Towering Inferno (1974)[7]
Natural disasters
- 10.0 Earthquake (2014) [8]
- 10.5 (2004) [9]
- After the Shock (1990)[10]
- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)[11]
- Armageddon (1998) [12]
- Asteroid (1997)[13]
- Avalanche (1978) [14]
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)[15]
- The Core (2003) [16]
- Cyclone (1978) [17]
- Crack in the World (1965)[18]
- Dante's Peak (1997) [19]
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004)[20]
- Deep Impact (1998)[21]
- Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."[10]
- Earthquake (1974) [22]
- Earthquake in New York (1998) [23]
- Flood (2007) [24]
- Flood! (1976) [25]
- Geostorm (2017) [26]
- The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) [23]
- Hard Rain (1998) [27]
- Heatwave! (1974) [28]
- The Hurricane (1937) [29]
- Hurricane (1979) [30]
- The Impossible (2012) [31]
- Into the Storm (2014) [32]
- Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) [33]
- Meteor (1979) [34]
- Night of the Twisters (1996) [35]
- The Night the World Exploded (1957)[36]
- On Hostile Ground (2000) [37]
- The Perfect Storm (2000)[38]
- Pompeii (2014)[39]
- Poseidon (2006)[40]
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[41]
- The Rains Came (1939) [42]
- San Andreas (2015)[43]
- San Francisco (1936)[44]
- St. Helens (1981) [45]
- Storm (1999) [46]
- Tidal Wave (1973) [47]
- Tidal Wave (2009)[48]
- Tornado! (1996) [49]
- Twister (1996) [50]
- Tycus (1998) [51]
- Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997) [52]
- Volcano (1997) [53]
- The Wave (2015)[54][55]
- When Time Ran Out (1980) [56]
End of days
- 10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
- 2012 (2009)
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
- Alien Armageddon (2011)
- Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)
- The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
- Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
- Crack in the World (1965)
- The Day After (1983)[57]
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- Days of Darkness (2007)
- Deep Impact (1998)
- Deluge (1933)
- Doomsday Prophecy (2011)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Earth's Final Hours (2011)
- End Day (2005)
- The Evil Dead (1983)
- Geostorm (2017)
- Goodbye World (2013)
- Greenland (2020)
- Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
- Knowing (2009)
- The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)
- The Last Man on Earth (1964)
- The Last Unicorn (1982)
- Last Night (1998)
- The Last War (1961)
- Last Woman on Earth (1960)
- Left Behind (2014)
- Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002)
- Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
- When Worlds Collide (1951) [58]
Airplanes
- Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films[59]
- 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) [60]
- Alive (1993)[61]
- The Doomsday Flight (1966) [62]
- Fire and Rain (1989) [62]
- The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) [63]
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004) [64]
- The High and the Mighty (1954)[62]
- The Hindenburg (1975)[65]
- Snakes on a Plane (2006)
- Survive! (1976)[66]
- Turbulence (1997) [67]
- Zero Hour! (1957) [68]
The atomic age
- Atomic Train (1999) [69]
- Atomic Twister (2002) [70]
- Control (1987) [71]
- Miracle Mile (1988) [72]
- On the Beach (1959) [73]
- Panic in Year Zero! (1962)[70]
Epidemics and pandemics
Shipwrecks
- Britannic (2000) [82]
- Gray Lady Down (1978) [83]
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) [84]
- The Last Voyage (1960) [85]
- Raise the Titanic (1980) [86]
- S.O.S. Titanic (1979) [87]
- Titanic (1953) [88]
- Titanic (1996) [89]
- Titanic (1997) [90]
- Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2001) [82]
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) [91]
See also
References
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- "Disaster Films". Filmsite. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
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- "The Impossible (2012)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- "Into the Storm (2014)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- Kay 2006, p. 122.
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- Kay 2006, p. 245-246.
- Kay 2006, p. 67.
- Kay 2006, p. 228.
- Kay 2006, p. 247.
- "Pompeii (2014)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- "Poseidon (2006)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
- Halliwell 1979, p. 695.
- Kay 2006, p. 70.
- "San Andreas (2015)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- Kay 2006, p. 73.
- Kay 2006, p. 123.
- Kay 2006, p. 229.
- Kay 2006, p. 257.
- "Tidal Wave". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- Kay 2006, p. 250-252.
- Kay 2006, p. 253.
- Kay 2006, p. 192.
- Kay 2006, p. 117-118.
- Kay 2006, p. 113-116.
- The Wave, Magnolia Home Entertainment, DVD, 2016, film released 2015
- "The Wave (2015)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
- Kay 2006, p. 119-121.
- "The Day After (1983)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
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- Kay 2006, p. 9-17.
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- Kay 2006, p. 303.
- "The Andromeda Strain (1971)". AllMovie. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
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Further reading
- Halliwell, Leslie (1979). Halliwell's Film Guide. New York: Granada Publishing.
- Kay, Glenn; Rose, Michael (2006). Disaster Movies. Chicago: A Capella/Chicago Review Press. Retrieved November 11, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
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