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 Backdraft The Burning Sea City on Fire The Core Crack in the World Dante's Inferno Daylight Deepwater Horizon Fire! Firestorm In Old Chicago Ladder 49 Pandora Red Skies of Montana The Tower The Towering Inferno- ''Trapped''
Natural disasters
10.0 Earthquake 10.5 13 Minutes 2012 2012: Doomsday After the Shock Aftershock: Earthquake in New York Armageddon Asteroid Avalanche Beyond the Poseidon Adventure California Firestorm Christmas Icetastrophe Christmas Twister Cyclone Dante's Peak The Day After Tomorrow Deep Impact Deluge "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."Devil Winds Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York Earthquake Earthquake in New York Fire Twister Flood Flood! Flood: A River's Rampage Geostorm The Great Los Angeles Earthquake Greenland Hard Rain Heatwave! The Hurricane Hurricane Ice The Impossible Into the Storm Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke Krakatoa, East of Java Magma: Volcanic Disaster Meteor Nature Unleashed: Avalanche Nature Unleashed: Earthquake Nature Unleashed: Fire Nature Unleashed: Tornado Night of the Twisters The Night the World Exploded NYC: Tornado Terror On Hostile Ground The Perfect Storm Pompeii Poseidon The Poseidon Adventure The Quake The Rains Came Raise the Titanic S.O.S. Titanic San Andreas San Francisco Seattle Superstorm St. Helens Storm Super Cyclone The Happening Tidal Wave Tidal Wave Tidal Wave: No Escape Titanic Titanic Titanic Titanic: The Legend Goes On Tornado! Tornado Warning Twister Twisters Tycus Volcano The Volcano Disaster Volcano: Fire on the Mountain The WaveEnd of days
The Day After Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea When Worlds Collide- ''Knowing''
Aircraft
- Airport (film series), 1970s series of four airplane-themed disaster films
- *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 Alive The Doomsday Flight Fire and Rain The Flight of the Phoenix Flight of the Phoenix
- The High and the Mighty The Hindenburg Sully Survive! Turbulence United 93
- ''Zero Hour!''
The atomic age
Atomic Train Atomic Twister Control Friend of the World The Lost Missile Miracle Mile On the BeachEpidemics and pandemics
The Andromeda Strain The Cassandra Crossing Contagion Outbreak Perfect Sense Plague The Stand Virus Virus- ''Warning Sign''