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) ^[1]
• Backdraft (1991) ^[2]
• The Burning Sea (2021)^[3][4]
• City on Fire (1979) ^[5]
• The Core (2003) ^[6]
• Crack in the World (1965)^[7]
• Dante's Inferno (1935) ^[8]
• Daylight (1996) ^[9]
• Deepwater Horizon (2016) ^[10]
• Fire! (1977) ^[11]
• Firestorm (1998) ^[12]
• In Old Chicago (1937) ^[13]
• Ladder 49 (2004) ^[14]
• Pandora (2016)^[15]
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)^[16]
• The Tower (2012) ^[17]
• The Towering Inferno (1974)^[18]
• Trapped (2001) ^[19]

Natural disasters

• 10.0 Earthquake (2014) ^[20]
• 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

See also: Eschatology and Apocalypse

• The Day After (1983)^[98]
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) ^[99]
• When Worlds Collide (1951) ^[100]

Airplanes

• Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films^[101]
  • 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) ^[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

• Atomic Train (1999) ^[113]
• Atomic Twister (2002) ^[114]
• Control (1987) ^[115]
• Friend of the World (2020) ^[116]
• The Lost Missile (1958) ^[117]
• Miracle Mile (1988) ^[118]
• On the Beach (1959) ^[119]
• Panic in Year Zero! (1962)^[114]

Epidemics and pandemics

• The Andromeda Strain (1971) ^[120]
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976) ^[121]
• Contagion (2011) ^[122]
• Outbreak (1995) ^[123]
• Perfect Sense (2011) ^[124]
• Plague (1979) ^[114]
• The Stand (1994) ^[125]
• Virus (1980) ^[126]
• Virus (1995) ^[127]
• Warning Sign (1985) ^[128]

Shipwrecks

• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) ^[129]
• Britannic (2000) ^[86]
• The Finest Hours (2016)^{[130][131][132]}
• Gray Lady Down (1978) ^[133]
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) ^[134]
• The Last Voyage (1960) ^[129]
• A Night to Remember (1958) ^[135]
• Poseidon (2006) ^[129]
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972) ^[129]
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005) ^[129]
• Raise the Titanic (1980) ^[72]
• S.O.S. Titanic (1979) ^[73]
• Titanic (1953) ^[83]
• Titanic (1996) ^[84]
• Titanic (1997) ^[85]
• Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000) ^[86]

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

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