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This list of disaster and doomsday films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists' attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster presented.

Natural disasters

Geological disasters

Cave-In! (1983 TV)
Cave In (2003 TV)
The Core (2003)
Buried Alive AKA Landslide (2004 TV)

Meteors, Asteroids & Comets

A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
Meteor (1979)
Meteorites! (1998 TV)
Armageddon (1998)
Asteroid (1997)
Deep Impact (1998)
Evolution (2001)
Polar Storm (2009)
Post Impact (2004)
Anna's Storm (2007)
Impact (2008 TV)
Meteor (2009 TV) AKA Meteor: Path to Destruction

Volcanoes

The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
St. Helens (1981)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Volcano (film) (1997)
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
Terror Peak (2003 TV)
Dragon Head (2003)
Pompeii: The Last Day (docudrama) (2003)
The Volcano Disaster (2004)
Nature Unleashed: Volcano (2004)
End Day (2005)
Supervolcano (docudrama) (2005)
Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)
Krakatoa: The Last Days (docudrama) (2006)
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
2012 (2009)
Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010 TV)
Supervolcano 2 (TBA)

Hydrological disasters

Floods, Tsunamis

2012 (2009)
2022: Tsunami (2009 Thailand)
252: Signal of Life (2008 Japan)
The Abyss (1989)
Condominium (1980 TV)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Daylight (1996)
Deep Impact (1998)
Deluge (1933)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Flood (2007)
Flood! (1976)
Flood: Lost City Raiders
Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)
Haeundae (2009 Korea)
Hereafter (2010)
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Killer Wave (2007 TV)
Poseidon
The Last Wave (1977)
Nihon Chinbotsu (1973 Japan) AKA Tidal Wave
Nihon Chinbostu (2006 film)
Noah's Ark (1928)
Noah's Ark (1999)
The Rains Came (1939)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Storm Tracker (film) (2000)
Tidal Wave (1975)
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997 TV)
Vajont (2001)
Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010 TV)
Mansfield Superflood (TBA)

Climatic disasters

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
End Day (2005)
Hard Rain (1998)
Heat Wave! (1974)
The Hurricane (1937)
Hurricane (1979)
Ice (1998)
Storm Tracker (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)

Global warming

Absolute Zero (2005 TV)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004 TV)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005 TV)
Countdown: The Sky's on Fire! (1998)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Fire Next Time (1993 TV)
Ice Twisters (2009)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV)
Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
Arctic Blast (2010)

Tornadoes

Atomic Twister (2002 TV)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Devil Winds (2003 TV)
Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2004)
Night of the Twisters (1996 TV)
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV)
Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister (1998)
Tornado Warning (2002)
Tornado! (1996)
Tornado - Der Zorn des Himmels (2006)
Twister (1996)
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004 TV)
Category 7: The End of the World (2005 TV)

Fires

15 Minutes of Fire (1997 Australia)
Ablaze (2001)
City on Fire (1979)
Dante's Inferno (1935)
Fire! (1901)
Fire! 2 (1977)
Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991 TV)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Inferno (1998 TV)
Knowing (2009)
Ladder 49 (2004)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Raging Inferno (2007 TV)
Red Skies of Montana (1952)
San Francisco (1936)
Terror on the 40th Floor (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Trapped (2001 TV)
Volcano (1997)

Explosions

Enemy of the State (1998)
Spy Game (2001)
Another Stakeout (1993)
Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)
Red Planet (2000)
New Police Story (2004)
End of Days (1999)
Daylight (1996)
Bare Wire (1996)
True Lies (1994)

Epidemics

28 days later(2002)
28 weeks later(2007)
Absolon (2001)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Blindness (2008)
Cabin Fever (2003)
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
Carriers (1998)
Carriers (2009)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Children of Men (2006)
Contagion (2001)
Contagious (1997)
Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
Daybreakers (2010)
Doomsday (2008)
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Epidemic (1987)
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Flying Virus (2001)
The Happening (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Omega (2007)
The Invasion (2007)
It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
The Last Man on Earth (1924)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Outbreak (1995)
The Omega Man (1971)
Pandora's Clock (1996)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Plague (1978)
Quarantine (2008)
Runaway Virus (2000)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Signs (2002)
Smallpox 2002 (2002)
Spill (1996)
SST: Death Flight (1977)
The Stand (1994)
Thirst (1998)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Virus (1980)
Virus (1981)
Virus 2 (1996 TV)
Virus (1999)
Voyage of Terror (1998)
Warning Sign (1985)
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

Undead (2003)
Zombieland (2009)

Space disasters

Anna's Storm (2007)
Armageddon (1998)
Asteroid (1997)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Countdown: The Sky's on Fire! (1998)
The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
Deep Impact (1998)
Disaster Movie (2008)
Doomsday Rock (1997)
Earthstorm (2006)
End Day (2005)
End of the World (1977)
Epoch (2001)
Epoch: Evolution (2003)
A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
Impact (2008)
Independence Day (1996)
Inferno (1998)
Judgment Day (1999)
Knowing (2009)
Lifeforce (1985)
Meteor (1979)
Meteorites (1998)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Pandorum (2009)
Signs (2002)
Solar Attack (2005) AKA Solar Strike
Solar Crisis (1990)
Sunshine (2007)
Supernova (2005)
Tycus (1998)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
War of the Worlds (2005)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
Without Warning (1994)

Man-made disasters

Hazardous materials

End Day (2005)
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The Stand (1994)

Chemical disasters

Acceptable Risks (1986 TV)
Chain Reaction (1996)
Daylight (1996)
The Children (1980)
Danger Zone (1997)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Fire Down Below (1997)
The Happening (2008)
Once Upon a Forest (1993)
Right at Your Door (2006)
The Patriot (1998)

Nuclear energy disasters

The China Syndrome (1979)
An Act of God (1989)
Knowing (2009)
Atomic Train (1999)
Atomic Twister (2002 TV)
By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
The Chain Reaction (1980)
Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
The Day After (1983)
The Doomsday Machine (1972)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Fail-Safe (1964)
The Final Combat (1983)
Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
The Last War (1961)
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Miracle Mile (1988)
Next (2007)
On the Beach (1959)
On the Beach (2000)
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
The Peacemaker (1997)
Special Bulletin (1983)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Threads (1984)
The War Game (1965)
Watchmen (2009)
When the Wind Blows (1986)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Transportation disasters

Airplanes

9/11 (2002)
Air Crew (1980 Russia) aka. Ekipazh
Air Force One (1997)
Airport (1970)
Airport 1975 (1974)
Airport '77 (1977)
The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
Airplane! (1980)
Airplane 2 (1982)
Airspeed (1998)
Alive (1993)
Cast Away (2000)
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990 TV) aka. Aftermath
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV) aka. A Thousand Heroes
Crash Landing (1999)
The Day Britain Stopped (2003)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Executive Decision (1996)
Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV)
Fearless (1993)
Final Descent (1997 TV)
Final Destination (2000)
Fire and Rain (1989)
Five Came Back (1939)
Flight 93 (2006)
Flight of The Living Dead (2007)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Flight to Holocaust (1977)
Ground Control (1998)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The Hindenburg (1975)
Knowing (2009)
Mayday (2005 TV)
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 Air New Zealand Flight 103(1993 TV)
Millennium (1989)
Miracle Landing (1990)
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Nowhere to Land (2000 TV)
Pandora's Clock (1996)
Panic in the Skies! (1996 TV)
Passenger 57 (1992)
Skyjacked (1972)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center (2002)
Starflight One (1983 TV)
Stealth (2005)
Storm Tracker (2000)
Terror in the Sky (1971 TV)
Turbulence (1997)
United 93 (2006)
A Wing and a Prayer (1998 TV)
World Trade Center (2006)
Zero Hour! (1957)

Cars and trucks

Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
Daylight (1996)
Duel (1971)
Eagle Eye (2008)
Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
The Final Destination (2009)
Knowing (2009)
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983)
Runaway Car (1997)
Speed (1994)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976 TV)
Trucks (1997)

Ships and submarines

Atlantic (1929)
Britannic (2000)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Gray Lady Down (1978)
Hostile Waters (1997)
In Nacht und Eis (1912)
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Juggernaut (1970)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
The Last Voyage (1960)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Noah (1998)
Noah's Ark (1929)
Noah's Ark 2 (1959)
Noah's Ark (1999)
Poseidon (2006)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Raise the Titanic! (1980)
S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV)
Saved from the Titanic (1912)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Titanic (1943)
Titanic (1953)
Titanic (1996 TV)
Titanic (1997)
Titanic 2 (2010)
U-571 (2000)
Ghost Ship (2002 film)
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
The Little Polar Bear (2001)

Spaceships

Apollo 13 (1995)
The Black Hole (1979)
Independence Day (1996)
Lost in Space (1998)
Marooned (1969)
Pandorum (2009)
Space Cowboys (2000)
SpaceCamp (1986)
Sunshine (2007)
Trapped in Space (1994)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
War of the Worlds (2005)
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005)
Event Horizon (1997)

Trains

Anastasia (1997)
Atomic Train (1999)
Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
Knowing (2009)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Day of the Roses (1996)
Disaster on the Coastliner (1979 TV)
Final Run (1999 TV)
Money Train (1995)
The Peacemaker (1997)
Runaway! (1973 TV) AKA The Runaway Train and Frozen Passage
Runaway Train (1985)
Silver Streak (1976)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Unstoppable (2010)
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Unbreakable (2000)
Dangerous Events (2014)

Theme Parks

Animals and plants

The Happening (2008)
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)
Bug (1975)
The Day of the Triffids (1962)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Evolution (2001)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Jumanji (1995)
Jurassic Park (film) (1993)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Jaws (film) (1975)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Jaws 3 (1983)
Jaws the Revenge (1987)
The Navy vs. The Night Monsters (-)
Night of the Lepus (1972)
The Swarm (1978)
Squirm (1976)
Tarantula (1955)
Them! (1954)
Tremors (1990)
Bats (1999)
Arachnoid (TBA)

Monsters

Cloverfield (2008)
The Godzilla franchise (1954–Present)
King Kong (1933)
The Son of Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
King Kong Lives (1986)
King Kong (2005)
The Mist (2007)
Monsters (2010)
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
Mothra (1960)
Rodan (1957)
Arachnoid: Attack of the Animals (TBA)
Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009)
Sasquatch Mountain (2006)
Yeti (film) (2008)
Camaro: The Giant Bunny (film) (2012)

Human Disappearance

Life After People (2008)
I Am Legend (2007)

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