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

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

Natural disasters

10.0 Earthquake (2014) ^[19]
10.5 (2004) ^[20]
13 Minutes (2021) ^[21]
2012 (film) (2009) ^[22]
After the Shock (1990)^[23]
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)^[24]
Armageddon (1998) ^[25]
Asteroid (1997)^[26]
Avalanche (1978) ^[27]
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)^[28]
California Firestorm (2002) ^[29]
Christmas Twister (2012) ^[30]
Cyclone (1978) ^[31]
Dante's Peak (1997) ^[32]
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)^[33]
Deep Impact (1998)^[34]
Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."^[23]
Devil Winds (2003) ^[35]
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006) ^[36]
Earthquake (1974) ^[37]
Earthquake in New York (1998) ^[38]
Fire Twister (2015) ^[39]
Flood (2007) ^[40]
Flood: A River's Rampage (1997) ^[41]
Flood! (1976) ^[42]
Geostorm (2017) ^[43]
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) ^[38]
Greenland (2020) ^[44]
Hard Rain (1998) ^[45]
Heatwave! (1974) ^[46]
The Hurricane (1937) ^[47]
Hurricane (1979) ^[48]
The Impossible (2012) ^[49]
Into the Storm (2014) ^[50]
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003) ^[51]
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) ^[52]
Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006) ^[53]
Meteor (1979) ^[54]
Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004) ^[55]
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005) ^[56]
Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004) ^[57]
Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005) ^[58]
Night of the Twisters (1996) ^[59]
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008) ^[60]
The Night the World Exploded (1957)^[61]
On Hostile Ground (2000) ^[62]
The Perfect Storm (2000)^[63]
Pompeii (2014)^[64]
Poseidon (2006)^[65]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)^[66]
The Quake (film) (2018) ^[67]
The Rains Came (1939) ^[68]
Raise the Titanic (1980) ^[69]
San Andreas (2015)^[70]
San Francisco (1936)^[71]
Seattle Superstorm (2012) ^[72]
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) ^[73]
St. Helens (1981) ^[74]
Super Cyclone (2012) ^[75]
Storm (1999) ^[76]
Tidal Wave (1973) ^[77]
Tidal Wave (2009)^[78]
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) ^[79]
Titanic (1953) ^[80]
Titanic (1996) ^[81]
Titanic (1997) ^[82]
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2001) ^[83]
Tornado! (1996) ^[84]
Tornado Warning (2002) ^[85]
Twister (1996) ^[86]
Twisters (2024)^[87]
Tycus (1998) ^[88]
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997) ^[89]
Volcano (1997) ^[90]
The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano, 2005) ^[91]
War of the Worlds (2005) ^[92]
The Wave (2015)^[93]^[94]
When Time Ran Out (1980) ^[95]

End of days

The Day After (1983)^[96]
When Worlds Collide (1951) ^[97]

Airplanes

Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films^[98]
- 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) ^[99]
Alive (1993)^[100]
The Doomsday Flight (1966) ^[101]
Fire and Rain (1989) ^[101]
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ^[102]
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004) ^[103]
The High and the Mighty (1954)^[101]
The Hindenburg (1975)^[104]
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Survive! (1976)^[105]
Turbulence (1997) ^[106]
Zero Hour! (1957) ^[107]

The atomic age

Atomic Train (1999) ^[108]
Atomic Twister (2002) ^[109]
Control (1987) ^[110]
Miracle Mile (1988) ^[111]
Friend of the World (2020) ^[112]
On the Beach (1959) ^[113]
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)^[109]

Epidemics and pandemics

The Andromeda Strain (1971) ^[114]
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) ^[115]
Contagion (2011) ^[116]
Outbreak (1995) ^[117]
Perfect Sense (2011) ^[118]
Plague (1979) ^[109]
The Stand (1994) ^[119]
Virus (1980) ^[120]
Virus (1995) ^[121]
Warning Sign (1985) ^[122]

Shipwrecks

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) ^[123]
Britannic (2000) ^[83]
The Finest Hours (2016)^[124]^[125]^[126]
Gray Lady Down (1978) ^[127]
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) ^[128]
The Last Voyage (1960) ^[123]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) ^[123]
The Poseidon Adventure (2005) ^[123]
Poseidon (2006) ^[123]
Raise the Titanic (1980) ^[69]
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) ^[73]
Titanic (1953) ^[80]
Titanic (1996) ^[81]
Titanic (1997) ^[82]
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2001) ^[83]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) ^[129]
A Night to Remember (1958) ^[130]

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