List of disaster films

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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)
• Landslide (2004 TV) AKA Buried Alive
• On Hostile Ground (2000)

Avalanches

• Avalanche (1969)
• Avalanche (1978)
• Avalanche (1994)
• Avalanche (1999) (AKA Escape From Alaska)
• Avalanche (2001)
• Avalanche Alley (2001)
• Avalanche Express (1979)
• Lavina (1982)
• Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)
• Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
• Vertical Limit (2000)

Earthquakes

• 10.5 (2004)
• 10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
• 2012 (2009)
• Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
• Aftershocks (1998)
• The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
• Crack in the World (1965)
• The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
• Deathquake (Japan 1980)
• Deep Core (2000)
• Descent (2005)
• Deluge (1933)
• Earthquake (1974)
• Epicenter (2000)
• Epoch (2001)
• Epoch: Evolution (2003)
• Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2004)
• The Night the World Exploded (1957)
• The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Short Walk to Daylight (1972)

Meteors

• Armageddon (1998)
• Asteroid (1997)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• A Fire in the Sky (1978 TV)
• Impact (2008)
• Meteor (1979)
• Meteor (2009 TV) AKA Meteor: Path to Destruction
• Meteorites! (1998)
• Post Impact (2004)

Volcanoes

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

Hydrological disasters

Floods and tidal waves

• 2012 (2009)
• 2022:Tsunami (2009 Thailand)
• 252: Signal of Life (2008 Japan)
• Condominium (1980 TV)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Daylight (1996)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Deluge (1933)
• Flood (2007)
• Flood! (1976)
• Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)
• Haeundae (2009 Korea)
• Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
• Killer Wave (2007 TV)
• The Last Wave (1977)
• Nippon Chinbotsu (1973) (Tidal Wave in North America)
• Nihon Chinbotsu (2006) AKA Japan Sinks
• Noah's Ark (1928)
• Noah's Ark (1999)
• The Rains Came (1939)
• The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
• Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997 TV)
• Vajont (2001)

Climatic disasters

• Absolute Zero (2005) (TV)
• Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
• Countdown: The Sky's on Fire (1998)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• End Day (2005)
• Hard Rain (1998)
• Heat Wave! (1974)
• The Hurricane (1937)
• Hurricane (1979)
• Ice (1998)
• Lightning: Bolts of Destruction (2003 TV)
• Lightning: Fire from the Sky (2001 TV)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)

Global warming

• Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
• Countdown: The Sky's on Fire (1998)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Waterworld (1995)
• Soylent Green (1973)

Tornadoes

• Atomic Twister (2002)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Devil Winds (2003)
• Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2004)
• Night of the Twisters (1996)
• 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)

Fires

• 15 Minutes of Fire (1997 Austrailia)
• Ablaze (2001)
• Backdraft (1991)
• City on Fire (1979)
• Dante's Inferno (1935)
• Fire! (1901)
• Fire! (1977 TV)
• Fire on the 37th Floor (1990 TV)
• Firestorm (1998)
• Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993 TV)
• Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone (2006 TV)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• Inferno (1998 TV)
• Knowing (2009)
• Ladder 49 (2004)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
• Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)
• Raging Inferno (2007 German TV) AKA Das Inferno - Flammen über Berlin
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Scorched (2008)
• Superfire (2002 TV)
• Terror on the 40th Floor (1974)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)
• Trapped (2001 TV)
• Volcano (1997)

Epidemics

• Absolon (2001)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• Signs (2002)
• The Andromeda Strain (2008)
• Blindness (2008)
• Cabin Fever (2003)
• Carriers (1998)
• Carriers (2009)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Contagion (2001)
• Contagious (1997)
• Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
• Doomsday (2008)
• 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)
• Smallpox 2002 (2002)
• Spill (1996)
• SST: Death Flight (1977)
• Thirst (1998)
• Virus (1980)
• Virus (1981)
• Virus (1999)
• Voyage of Terror (1998)
• Warning Sign (1985)
• Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
• Undead (2003)
• Zombieland (2009)

Space disasters

• Anna's Storm (2007)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Asteroid (1997)
• The Black Hole (1979)
• Countdown: The Sky's on Fire! (1998)
• The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Doomsday Rock (1997)
• End Day (2005)
• End of the World (1977)
• A Fire in the Sky (1978)
• Impact (2008)
• Inferno (1998)
• Judgement Day (1999)
• Knowing (2009)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• Meteor (1979)
• Meteorites! (1998)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• 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)
• Without Warning (1994)
• Undead

Man-made disasters

• The Black Hole (2005)
• Blackout (1978)
• The Core (2003)
• City on Fire (1979)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
• From Beyond (1985)
• Hanging by a Thread (1979 TV)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
• Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993 TV)
• The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983)
• On Deadly Ground (1994)
• The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
• The Quiet Earth (1985)
• Shadowzone (1990)
• Skyway to Death (1974 TV)
• Stairwell: Trapped In The World Trade Center (2002)
• Wall-e (2008)

Hazardous materials

• End Day (2005)
• The Magnetic Monster (1953)

Chemical disasters

• The Happening (2008)
• The Children (1980)
• Danger Zone (1997)
• Fire Down Below (1997)
• Once Upon a Forest (1993)
• Right at Your Door (2006)
• WALL-E (2008)
• Chain Reaction (1996)

Computer Controls

• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0) (2007)
• I, Robot (2004)

Nuclear disasters

• An Act of God (1989)
• Knowing (2009)
• Atomic Train (1999)
• Atomic Twister (2002)
• By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
• Chain Reaction (1996)
• The China Syndrome (1979)
• 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)
• 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)
• Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Transportation disasters

Airplanes

• 9/11 (2002)
• Air Crew (1980 Russia) AKA Ekipazh
• Air Force One (1997)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Airport (1970)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Airport '77 (1977)
• Airspeed (1998)
• Alive (1993)
• Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992 TV) AKA A Thousand Heroes
• Crash Landing (1999)
• Crash Landing (2005)
• The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)
• The Day Britain Stopped (2003)
• Die Hard 2 (1990)
• Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV) AKA Freefall: Flight 174
• 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)
• The High and the Mighty (1954)
• The Hindenburg (1975)
• Knowing (2009)
• Mayday! (2005 TV)
• Millenium (1989)
• Miracle Landing (1990)
• No Highway in the Sky (1951)
• Pandora's Clock (1996)
• Passenger 57 (1992)
• Skyjacked (1972)
• Snakes on a Plane (2006)
• Starflight One (1983 TV)
• Stealth (2005)
• Turbulence (1997)
• United 93 (2006)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Zero Hour! (1957)

Cars and trucks

• Ascendency (2008)
• The Big Bus (1976)
• Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
• The Chase (1994)
• Daylight (1996)
• Duel (1971)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• The Final Destination (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

• Britannic (2000)
• Crimson Tide (1995)
• Evan Almighty (2007)
• Gray Lady Down (1978)
• Hostile Waters (1997)
• 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 (1959)
• Noah's Ark (1999)
• Poseidon (2006)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
• Saved from the Titanic (1912)
• In Nacht und Eis (1912)
• Atlantic (1929)
• Titanic (1943)
• Titanic (1953)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• S.O.S. Titanic, TV movie (1979)
• Raise the Titanic! (1980)
• Titanic (1996)
• Titanic (1997)
• U-571 (2000)

Spaceships

• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• The Black Hole (1979)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Lost in Space (1998)
• Marooned (1969)
• 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)

Trains

• Atomic Train (1999)
• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• The Day of the Roses (1996)
• Disaster on the Coastliner (1979)
• 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)
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
• Unbreakable (2000)

Theme Parks

• The Death of Ocean View Park (1979)
• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• Rollercoaster (1977)
• Jurassic Park (1993)

Animals and plants

• The Happening (2008)
• Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1975)

• Bug
• The Day of the Triffids
• The Deadly Mantis
• Eight Legged Freaks
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Squirm
• Tarantula
• Them!
• Tremors
• Bats

Monsters

• King Kong (1933)
• The Son of Kong (1933)
• The "Godzilla" series (1954 - 2004)
• King Kong (1976)
• King Kong Lives (1986)
• King Kong (2005)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
• The Mist (2007)

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