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.

Monsters/kaiju

See also: Kaiju and Monster

• 2 (2007)
• Altered (2006)
• Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
• Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993)
• Battle of the Worlds (1961, original title: Il Pianeta degli uomini spenti)
• Bugs (2014)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Creature 3D (2014)
• D-War (2007)
• Destroy All Monsters (1968)
• The Fourth Kind (2009)
• The Godzilla franchise (1954–present)
  • Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
  • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
  • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
  • Godzilla (1998)
  • Godzilla 2000 (1999)
  • Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
  • Godzilla (2014)
• Gorgo (1961)
• Helldriver (2010)
• The Host (2006)
• Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
• Jeepers Creepers (2001)
• Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
• Jurassic Shark (2012)
• Killer Mountain (2011, TV movie)
• Mega Piranha (2010)
• Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011)
• Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus (2010)
• Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009)
• Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark (2014)
• The Mist (2007)
• The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit (2008)
• Outlander (2008)
• Pacific Rim (2013)
  • Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
• Resident Evil (2002)
  • Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
  • Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
  • Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
  • Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
• Scream of the Banshee (2012)
• TerrorVision (1987)
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
• Tremors franchise (1990–2015)
• Underworld (2003)
• Underworld: Evolution (2006)
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
• Underworld: Awakening (2012)
• Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

Natural Disasters

End of days

See also: End of Days (eschatology) and Apocalypse

• 10.5: Apocalypse (2006, TV movie)
• 2012 (2009)
• 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
• Alien Armageddon (2011)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Ash vs Evil Dead (2015)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
• The Core (2003)
• Crack in the World (1965)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
• Days of Darkness (2007)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Deluge (1933)
• Doomsday Prophecy (2011)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Earth's Final Hours (2011)
• End Day (2005 docudrama)
• The Evil Dead (1983)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• Geostorm (2017)
• Goodbye World (2013)
• Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
• Knowing (2009)
• The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)
• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• The Last Unicorn (1982)
• Last Night (1998)
• The Last War (1961)
• Last Woman on Earth (1960)
• Left Behind (2014)
• Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002)
• Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
• Left Behind: World at War (2005)
• The Lost Missile (1958)
• Japan Sinks (Nihon Chinbotsu) (1973)/2006 remake
• Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
• The Night the World Exploded (1957)
• No Tomorrow (2016, TV series)
• Noah (2014)
• Melancholia (2011)
• On the Beach (1959)
• The Remaining (I) (2014)
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
• The Stand (1994)
• Stormageddon (2015, TV movie)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• These Final Hours (2013)
• This Is the End (2013)
• WALL-E (2008)
• When Time Ran Out (1980)
• The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959)
• The World's End (2013)

Epidemics

• Absolon (2003)
• After Armageddon (2010, TV docudrama)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• Blindness (2008)
• Carriers (2009)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Contagion (2011)
• Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
• Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
• Daybreakers (2010)
• Daylight's End (2016)
• Deranged (2012, Korean)
• Doomsday Virus (1996)
• Ebola Syndrome (1996)
• Epidemic (1987)
• Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
• Flu (2013, Korean)
• Flying Virus (2001)
• The Happening (2008)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• I Am Omega (2007)
• Infection: The Invasion Begins (2010)
• The Invasion (2007)
• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor (1990)
• No Blade of Grass (1970)
• The Omega Man (1971)
• Outbreak (1995)
• “Pacific Liner” (1939)
• Pandemic (2016)
• Perfect Sense (2011)
• Phase 7 (2011)
• Plague (1979)
• Quarantine (2008)
• Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
• Smallpox 2002 (2002)
• SST: Death Flight (1977)
• The Stand (1994, miniseries)
• Virus (1980)
• Virus (1999)
• World War Z (2013)
• World Without End (2012, miniseries)

Fires

• Backdraft (1991)
• City on Fire (1979)
• Daylight (1996)
• "Dresden" (2006)
• Fire! (1977, TV movie)
• Firestorm (1998)
• Geostorm (2017)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• Nature Unleashed: Fire (2005)
• Only the Brave (2017)
• Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)
• Terror on the 40th Floor (1974, TV movie)
• The Tower (2012)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)

Hurricanes and tornadoes

• An American Opera (2007, documentary)
• Atomic Twister (2002, TV movie)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
• Category 5 (2014)
• Category 6: Day of Destruction (2005)
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
• Condominium (1980, TV movie)
• Cyclone (1978)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• The Equalizer 2 (2018)
• Eye of the Hurricane (2012)
• Geostorm (2017)
• The Hurricane (1937)
• Hurricane (1974, TV movie)
• Hurricane (1979)
• The Hurricane Heist (2018)
• Ice Twisters (2009)
• Into the Storm (2014)
• The Karate Kid Part 2 (1986)
• Key Largo (1948)
• Land of Grief (1978)
• Night of the Twisters (1996, TV movie)
• NYC: Tornado Terror (2008, TV movie)
• Sharknado (2013, TV movie)
• Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014, TV movie)
• Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015, TV movie)
• Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016, TV movie)
• Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister (1998, TV movie)
• Taloompuk (2002)
• Tornado (1943)
• Tornado! (1996) (PG)
• Twister (1996)
• Typhoon (1940)

Meteoroids/Asteroids

• 400 Days (2016)
• Christmas Icetastrophe (2014}
• Deep Impact (1998)
• End of the World (1931)
• Ice (1998)
• Meteor (1979)
• Night of the Wild (2015)
• Armageddon (1998)

Tidal waves and tsunami

• 2012 (2009)
• 2022 Tsunami (2009)
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
• Dashavathaaram (2008)
• Geostorm (2017)
• Godzilla (2014)
• Hereafter (2010)
• The Impossible (2012)
• Kayal (2014)
• Land of Grief (1978)
• Pompeii (2014)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Poseidon (2006)
• San Andreas (2015)
• Tidal Wave (Submersion of Japan) (1973)
• Taloompuk (2002)
• Tidal Wave (2009)
• Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)
• Titanic II (2010, TV movie)
• The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (2011)
• Tsunami (2017)
• The Wave (2016)

Space

• 2012: Supernova (2009, TV movie)
• Anna's Storm (2007)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Asteroid (1997)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
• Crack in the World (1965)
• The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Disaster L.A. (2014)
• Doomsday Prophecy (2011, TV movie)
• Doomsday Rock (1997, TV movie)
• The End of the World (1916)
• End of the World (1977)
• Epoch (2001)
• Geostorm (2017)
• Gravity (2013)
• H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
• Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Life (2017)
• Lifepod (1993)
• Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006, TV movie)
• Meteor (1979)
• Pandorum (2009)
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
• Solar Attack (2005, also known as Solar Strike)
• Solar Crisis (1990)
• Starflight One (1983, TV movie)
• Sunshine (2007)
• Supernova (2000)
• Supernova (2005)
• These Final Hours (2013)
• Threshold (2003, TV movie)
• Tycus (1998)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• Where Have all the People Gone? (1974)
• Without Warning (1994)

Transportation

Airplanes

• 7500 (2013)
• Air Collision (2012, direct-to-video)
• Air Force One (1997)
• Airborne (2012)
• Airline Disaster (2010, direct-to-video)
• Air Panic (2003)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Airplane 2: The Sequel (1982)
• Airport (1970)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Airport '77 (1977)
• Airspeed (1999)
• Alive (1993)
• Blackout Effect (1998, TV movie)
• Broken Arrow (1996)
• Cabin Pressure (2002, TV movie)
• Con Air (1997)
• Concorde Affaire '79 (1979)
• The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979; released in the UK as Airport '80: The Concorde)
• Crash (1978, TV movie)
• Crash Landing (1999)
• Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990, TV movie)
• Crisis in Mid-Air (1979, TV movie)
• The Crowded Sky (1960)
• The Doomsday Flight (1966, TV movie)
• Ekipazh (1980)
• Executive Decision (1996)
• Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995, TV movie)
• Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
• Fearless (1993)
• Final Approach (2007, TV movie)
• Final Descent (1997, TV movie)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Fire and Rain (1989, TV movie)
• Flight (2012)
• Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984, TV movie)
• Flight 93 (2006, TV movie)
• Flight into Danger (1956, TV movie)
• Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
• Flight to Holocaust (1977, TV movie)
• Free Fall (1999)
• Geostorm (2017)
• The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978, TV movie)
• The Grey (2012)
• Ground Control (1998)
• The High and the Mighty (1954)
• Hijack (2008)
• The Hindenburg (1975)
• The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973, TV movie)
• Jet Over the Atlantic (1959)
• Jet Storm (1959)
• Knowing (2009)
• Last Flight to Abuja (2012)
• Lost Flight (1969, TV movie)
• Mach 2 (2001)
• Mayday (2005, TV movie)
• Mayday at 40,000 Feet! (1976, TV movie)
• Miracle Landing (1990, TV movie)
• Murder on Flight 502 (1975, TV movie)
• The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977, TV movie)
• No Highway in the Sky (1951)
• Non-Stop (2014)
• Pandora's Clock (1996, TV movie)
• Panic in the Skies! (1996, TV movie)
• Passenger 57 (1992)
• Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
• Skyjacked (1972)
• Snakes on a Plane (2006)
• Sonic Impact (2000)
• SST: Death Flight (1977, TV movie)
• Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983, TV movie)
• Submerged (2000)
• The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988, TV movie)
• The 5th Wave (2016)
• Terror in the Sky (1971, TV movie)
• Turbulence (1997)
• Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)
• Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001, direct-to-video)
• United 93 (2006)
• "Unstoppable" (2010)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Zero Hour! (1957)

Cars, trucks and buses

• The Big Bus (1976)
• Daylight (1996)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• The Elevator (1974, TV movie)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• Geostorm (2017)
• Hanging by a Thread (1979, TV movie)
• Maximum Overdrive (1986)
• The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983, TV movie)
• Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976, TV movie)
• Speed (1994)
• Super 8 (2011)
• The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
• Trucks (1997 TV movie)

Ships, boats, and submarines

• 2012 (2009)
• Atlantic (1929)
• Britannic (2000)
• Cruise Into Terror (1978, TV movie)
• Deepwater Horizon (2016)
• Déjà Vu (2006)
• The Finest Hours (2016)
• Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
• Gray Lady Down (1978)
• Hostile Waters (1997)
• In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
• Juggernaut (1974)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
• The Last Voyage (1960)
• Lifeboat (1944)
• The Neptune Factor (1973)
• “Pacific Liner” (1939)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
  • The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
  • Poseidon (2006)
• Souls at Sea (1937)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
• Titanic (1943); four scenes were used in A Night to Remember (1958)
  • Titanic (1953)
  • A Night to Remember (1958)
  • S.O.S. Titanic (1979, TV movie)
  • Raise the Titanic (1980)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • The Legend of the Titanic (1999)
  • Titanic II (2010)
  • See also: List of films about the RMS Titanic
• Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
• USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)

Trains

• Atomic Train (1999)
• Breakheart Pass (1985)
• The Bullet Train (1975)
• The Burning Train (1980)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• The Day of the Roses (1996)
• Derailed (2002)
• Disaster on the Coastliner (1979, TV movie)
• Last Passenger (2013)
• Metro (2013)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Runaway! (1973, TV movie; a.k.a. The Runaway Train and Frozen Passage)
• Runaway Train (1985)
• Silver Streak (1976)
• Snowpiercer (2014)
• Super 8 (2011)
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998, TV movie)
  • The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
• Train to Busan (2016 Korean film)
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
• Unstoppable (2010)

War

• "Dresden" (2006)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• Left Behind: World at War (2005)
• Red Army (2015)
• Red Dawn (1984)
• Red Dawn (2012)
• Reign of Fire (2002)
• Storm Wars (2011)
• The Day After (1983, TV film)
• Threads (1984, TV film)
• The War Game (1965)
• Tomorrow when the war began (2010)
• War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

See also

• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
• List of apocalyptic films
• Survival film