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1 Man-made disasters  





2 Natural disasters  





3 End of days  





4 Airplanes  





5 The atomic age  





6 Epidemics and pandemics  





7 Shipwrecks  





8 See also  





9 References  





10 Bibliography  














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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) [21]
  • 13 Minutes (2021) [22]
  • 2012 (2009) [23]
  • After the Shock (1990)[24]
  • Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)[25]
  • Armageddon (1998) [26]
  • Asteroid (1997)[27]
  • Avalanche (1978) [28]
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)[29]
  • California Firestorm (2002) [30]
  • Christmas Icetastrophe (2014) [31]
  • Christmas Twister (2012) [32]
  • Cyclone (1978) [33]
  • Dante's Peak (1997) [34]
  • The Day After Tomorrow (2004)[35]
  • Deep Impact (1998)[36]
  • Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."[24]
  • Devil Winds (2003) [37]
  • Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006) [38]
  • Earthquake (1974) [39]
  • Earthquake in New York (1998) [40]
  • Fire Twister (2015) [41]
  • Flood (2007) [42]
  • Flood! (1976) [43]
  • Flood: A River's Rampage (1997) [44]
  • Geostorm (2017) [45]
  • The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) [40]
  • Greenland (2020) [46]
  • Hard Rain (1998) [47]
  • Heatwave! (1974) [48]
  • The Hurricane (1937) [49]
  • Hurricane (1979) [50]
  • 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) [55]
  • Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006) [56]
  • Meteor (1979) [57]
  • 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) [62]
  • The Night the World Exploded (1957)[63]
  • NYC: Tornado Terror (2008) [64]
  • On Hostile Ground (2000) [65]
  • The Perfect Storm (2000)[66]
  • Pompeii (2014)[67]
  • Poseidon (2006)[68]
  • The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[69]
  • The Quake (2018) [70]
  • The Rains Came (1939) [71]
  • Raise the Titanic (1980) [72]
  • S.O.S. Titanic (1979) [73]
  • San Andreas (2015)[74]
  • San Francisco (1936)[75]
  • Seattle Superstorm (2012) [76]
  • St. Helens (1981) [77]
  • Storm (1999) [78]
  • Super Cyclone (2012) [79]
  • Tidal Wave (1973) [80]
  • Tidal Wave (2009)[81]
  • Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) [82]
  • Titanic (1953) [83]
  • Titanic (1996) [84]
  • Titanic (1997) [85]
  • Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000) [86]
  • Tornado! (1996) [87]
  • Tornado Warning (2002) [88]
  • Twister (1996) [89]
  • Twisters (2024)[90]
  • Tycus (1998) [91]
  • Volcano (1997) [92]
  • The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano, 2005) [93]
  • Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997) [94]
  • The Wave (2015)[95][96]
  • When Time Ran Out (1980) [97]
  • End of days[edit]

  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) [99]
  • When Worlds Collide (1951) [100]
  • 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) [102]
  • Alive (1993)[103]
  • The Doomsday Flight (1966) [104]
  • Fire and Rain (1989) [104]
  • The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) [105]
  • Flight of the Phoenix (2004) [106]
  • The High and the Mighty (1954)[104]
  • The Hindenburg (1975)[107]
  • Sully (2016)[108]
  • Survive! (1976)[109]
  • Turbulence (1997) [110]
  • United 93 (2006)[111]
  • Zero Hour! (1957) [112]
  • The atomic age[edit]

    Epidemics and pandemics[edit]

    Shipwrecks[edit]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

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