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

See also: List of films about nuclear issues

• Ablaze (2001)
• Backdraft (1991)
• The Burning Sea (2021)
• City on Fire (1979)
• The Core (2003)
• Crack in the World (1965)
• Dante's Inferno (1935)
• Daylight (1996)
• Deepwater Horizon (2016)
• Fire! (1977)
• Firestorm (1998)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• Ladder 49 (2004)
• Pandora (2016)
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)
• The Tower (2012)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)
• Trapped (2001)

Natural disasters

End of days

Airplanes

The atomic age

• Atomic Train (1999)
• Atomic Twister (2002)
• Control (1987)
• Friend of the World (2020)
• The Lost Missile (1958)
• Miracle Mile (1988)
• On the Beach (1959)
• Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

Epidemics and pandemics

• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• Contagion (2011)
• Outbreak (1995)
• Perfect Sense (2011)
• Plague (1979)
• The Stand (1994)
• Virus (1980)
• Virus (1995)
• Warning Sign (1985)

Shipwrecks

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

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

References

Bibliography

• Halliwell, Leslie (1979). Halliwell's Film Guide. New York: Granada Publishing.
• Kay, Glenn; Rose, Michael (2006). Disaster Movies. Chicago: A Capella/Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781556526121. Retrieved November 11, 2020 – via Internet Archive.

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