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[]

Backdraft (1991) ^[1]
City on Fire (1979) ^[2]
Crack in the World (1965)^[3]
Daylight (1996) ^[4]
Fire! (1977) ^[5]
Firestorm (1998) ^[6]
In Old Chicago (1937) ^[7]
The Towering Inferno (1974)^[8]

Natural disasters[]

10.0 Earthquake (2014) ^[9]
10.5 (2004) ^[10]
After the Shock (1990)^[11]
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)^[12]
Armageddon (1998) ^[13]
Asteroid (1997)^[14]
Avalanche (1978) ^[15]
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)^[16]
The Core (2003) ^[17]
Cyclone (1978) ^[18]
Dante's Peak (1997) ^[19]
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)^[20]
Deep Impact (1998)^[21]
Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."^[11]
Earthquake (1974) ^[22]
Earthquake in New York (1998) ^[23]
Flood (2007) ^[24]
Flood! (1976) ^[25]
Geostorm (2017) ^[26]
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990) ^[23]
Hard Rain (1998) ^[27]
Heatwave! (1974) ^[28]
The Hurricane (1937) ^[29]
Hurricane (1979) ^[30]
The Impossible (2012) ^[31]
Into the Storm (2014) ^[32]
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) ^[33]
Meteor (1979) ^[34]
Night of the Twisters (1996) ^[35]
The Night the World Exploded (1957)^[36]
On Hostile Ground (2000) ^[37]
The Perfect Storm (2000)^[38]
Pompeii (2014)^[39]
Poseidon (2006)^[40]
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)^[41]
The Rains Came (1939) ^[42]
San Andreas (2015)^[43]
San Francisco (1936)^[44]
St. Helens (1981) ^[45]
Storm (1999) ^[46]
Tidal Wave (1973) ^[47]
Tidal Wave (2009)^[48]
Tornado! (1996) ^[49]
Twister (1996) ^[50]
Tycus (1998) ^[51]
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997) ^[52]
Volcano (1997) ^[53]
The Wave (2015)^[54]^[55]
When Time Ran Out (1980) ^[56]

End of days[]

The Day After (1983)^[57]
When Worlds Collide (1951) ^[58]

Airplanes[]

Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films^[59]
- 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) ^[60]
Alive (1993)^[61]
The Doomsday Flight (1966) ^[62]
Fire and Rain (1989) ^[62]
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) ^[63]
- Flight of the Phoenix (2004) ^[64]
The High and the Mighty (1954)^[62]
The Hindenburg (1975)^[65]
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Survive! (1976)^[66]
Turbulence (1997) ^[67]
Zero Hour! (1957) ^[68]

The atomic age[]

Atomic Train (1999) ^[69]
Atomic Twister (2002) ^[70]
Control (1987) ^[71]
Miracle Mile (1988) ^[72]
On the Beach (1959) ^[73]
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)^[70]

Epidemics and pandemics[]

The Andromeda Strain (1971) ^[74]
The Cassandra Crossing (1976) ^[75]
Contagion (2011) ^[76]
Outbreak (1995) ^[77]
Perfect Sense (2011) ^[78]
Plague (1979) ^[70]
The Stand (1994) ^[79]
Virus (1980) ^[80]
Virus (1995) ^[81]
Warning Sign (1985) ^[82]

Shipwrecks[]

Britannic (2000) ^[83]
Gray Lady Down (1978) ^[84]
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) ^[85]
The Last Voyage (1960) ^[86]
Raise the Titanic (1980) ^[87]
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) ^[88]
Titanic (1953) ^[89]
Titanic (1996) ^[90]
Titanic (1997) ^[91]
Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2001) ^[83]
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) ^[92]

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