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    List of disaster films

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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

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    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

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    • 10.0 Earthquake (2014)[20]
    • 10.5 (2004)[21]
    • 13 Minutes (2021)[22]
    • 2012 (2009)[23]
    • 2012: Doomsday (2008)[24]
    • After the Shock (1990)[25]
    • Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)[26]
    • Armageddon (1998)[27]
    • Asteroid (1997)[28]
    • Avalanche (1978)[29]
    • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)[30]
    • California Firestorm (2002)[31]
    • Christmas Icetastrophe (2014)[32]
    • Christmas Twister (2012)[33]
    • Cyclone (1978)[34]
    • Dante's Peak (1997)[35]
    • The Day After Tomorrow (2004)[36]
    • Deep Impact (1998)[37]
    • Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."[25]
    • Devil Winds (2003)[38]
    • Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)[39]
    • Earthquake (1974)[40]
    • Earthquake in New York (1998)[41]
    • Fire Twister (2015)[42]
    • Flood (2007)[43]
    • Flood! (1976)[44]
    • Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)[45]
    • Geostorm (2017)[46]
    • The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)[41]
    • Greenland (2020)[47]
    • Hard Rain (1998)[48]
    • Heatwave! (1974)[49]
    • The Hurricane (1937)[50]
    • Hurricane (1979)[51]
    • Ice (1998)[52]
    • The Impossible (2012)[53]
    • Into the Storm (2014)[54]
    • Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)[55]
    • Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)[56]
    • Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)[57]
    • Meteor (1979)[58]
    • Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)[59]
    • Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)[60]
    • Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)[61]
    • Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005)[62]
    • Night of the Twisters (1996)[63]
    • The Night the World Exploded (1957)[64]
    • NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)[65]
    • On Hostile Ground (2000)[66]
    • The Perfect Storm (2000)[67]
    • Pompeii (2014)[68]
    • Poseidon (2006)[69]
    • The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[70]
    • The Quake (2018)[71]
    • The Rains Came (1939)[72]
    • Raise the Titanic (1980)[73]
    • S.O.S. Titanic (1979)[74]
    • San Andreas (2015)[75]
    • San Francisco (1936)[76]
    • Seattle Superstorm (2012)[77]
    • St. Helens (1981)[78]
    • Storm (1999)[79]
    • Super Cyclone (2012)[80]
    • The Happening (2008)[81]
    • Tidal Wave (1973)[82]
    • Tidal Wave (2009)[83]
    • Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)[84]
    • Titanic (1953)[85]
    • Titanic (1996)[86]
    • Titanic (1997)[87]
    • Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)[88]
    • Tornado! (1996)[89]
    • Tornado Warning (2002)[90]
    • Twister (1996)[91]
    • Twisters (2024)[92]
    • Tycus (1998)[93]
    • Volcano (1997)[94]
    • The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano, 2005)[95]
    • Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)[96]
    • The Wave (2015)[97][98]
    • When Time Ran Out (1980)[99]

    End of days

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    See also: Eschatology and Apocalypse
    • The Day After (1983)[100]
    • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)[101]
    • When Worlds Collide (1951)[102]
    • Knowing (2009)[103]

    Aircraft

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    • Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films[104]
      • 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)[105]
    • Alive (1993)[106]
    • The Doomsday Flight (1966)[107]
    • Fire and Rain (1989)[107]
    • The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)[108]
    • Flight of the Phoenix (2004)[109]
    • The High and the Mighty (1954)[107]
    • The Hindenburg (1975)[110]
    • Sully (2016)[111]
    • Survive! (1976)[112]
    • Turbulence (1997)[113]
    • United 93 (2006)[114]
    • Zero Hour! (1957)[115]

    The atomic age

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    • Atomic Train (1999)[116]
    • Atomic Twister (2002)[117]
    • Control (1987)[118]
    • Friend of the World (2020)[119]
    • The Lost Missile (1958)[120]
    • Miracle Mile (1988)[121]
    • On the Beach (1959)[122]
    • Panic in Year Zero! (1962)[117]

    Epidemics and pandemics

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    Shipwrecks

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    • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)[132]
    • Britannic (2000)[88]
    • The Finest Hours (2016)[133][134][135]
    • Gray Lady Down (1978)[136]
    • K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)[137]
    • The Last Voyage (1960)[132]
    • A Night to Remember (1958)[138]
    • Poseidon (2006)[132]
    • The Poseidon Adventure (1972)[132]
    • The Poseidon Adventure (2005)[132]
    • Raise the Titanic (1980)[73]
    • S.O.S. Titanic (1979)[74]
    • Titanic (1953)[85]
    • Titanic (1996)[86]
    • Titanic (1997)[87]
    • Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)[88]

    See also

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    • 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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    • Halliwell, Leslie (1979). Halliwell's Film Guide. New York: Granada Publishing.
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