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
editSee 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
edit- 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
edit- The Day After (1983)[98]
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) [99]
- When Worlds Collide (1951) [100]
Airplanes
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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]
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