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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 [ edit ]
See also: List of films about nuclear issues
Natural disasters [ edit ]
10.5 (2004)
13 Minutes (2021) [22]
2012 (2009) [23]
After the Shock (1990)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Armageddon (1998)
Asteroid (1997)
Avalanche (1978)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
California Firestorm (2002) [30]
Christmas Icetastrophe (2014) [31]
Christmas Twister (2012) [32]
Cyclone (1978)
Dante's Peak (1997)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Deep Impact (1998)
Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."
Devil Winds (2003) [37]
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006) [38]
Earthquake (1974) [39]
Earthquake in New York (1998)
Fire Twister (2015) [41]
Flood (2007) [42]
Flood! (1976)
Flood: A River's Rampage (1997) [44]
Geostorm (2017) [45]
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
Greenland (2020) [46]
Hard Rain (1998)
Heatwave! (1974)
The Hurricane (1937)
Hurricane (1979)
Ice (1998)[51]
The Impossible (2012) [52]
Into the Storm (2014) [53]
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003) [54]
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006) [56]
Meteor (1979)
Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004) [58]
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005) [59]
Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004) [60]
Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005) [61]
Night of the Twisters (1996)
The Night the World Exploded (1957)
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008) [64]
On Hostile Ground (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Pompeii (2014)[67]
Poseidon (2006)[68]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Quake (2018) [70]
The Rains Came (1939)
Raise the Titanic (1980)
S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
San Andreas (2015)[74]
San Francisco (1936)
Seattle Superstorm (2012) [76]
St. Helens (1981)
Storm (1999)
Super Cyclone (2012) [79]
Tidal Wave (1973)
Tidal Wave (2009)[81]
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) [82]
Titanic (1953)
Titanic (1996)
Titanic (1997)
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)
Tornado! (1996)
Tornado Warning (2002) [88]
Twister (1996)
Twisters (2024)[90]
Tycus (1998)
Volcano (1997)
The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano , 2005) [93]
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
The Wave (2015)[95] [96]
When Time Ran Out (1980)
End of days [ edit ]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Airplanes [ edit ]
Airport 1975 , sequel to the 1970 film
Airport '77 , sequel to Airport 1975
The Concorde ... Airport '79 , 1979 sequel to Airport '77
Airspeed (1998)
Alive (1993)
The Doomsday Flight (1966)
Fire and Rain (1989)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The Hindenburg (1975)
Sully (2016)[108]
Survive! (1976)
Turbulence (1997)
United 93 (2006)[111]
Zero Hour! (1957)
The atomic age [ edit ]
Epidemics and pandemics [ edit ]
Shipwrecks [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
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^ "Magma: Volcanic Disaster" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
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^ "Fire: Nature Unleashed (2004)" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ "Tornado: Nature Unleashed" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ "NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ "Pompeii (2014)" . AllMovie . Retrieved November 11, 2020 .
^ "Poseidon (2006)" . AllMovie . Retrieved November 13, 2020 .
^ "Film Review: 'The Quake' )" . Variety . 12 December 2018. Retrieved December 24, 2022 .
^ "San Andreas (2015)" . AllMovie . Retrieved November 11, 2020 .
^ "Seattle Superstorm" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ "Super Cyclone (2012)" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ "Tidal Wave" . AllMovie . Retrieved November 11, 2020 .
^ "Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
^ "Tornado Warning (2002)" . AllMovie . Retrieved October 13, 2021 .
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