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Disaster
A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck, or an asteroid collision) as its subject. These films typically feature large casts of well-known actors and multiple plotlines, focusing on the characters' attempts to avert,...
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Gray Lady Down
Gray Lady Down is a 1978 disaster film by Universal Studios starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, and features the first film role for a young Christopher Reeve.
An aging, respected commander (Charlton Heston...
Initial release date:
- Apr 1978
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 111 min (66.6 hs )
Produced by:
The Concorde...Airport '79
The Concorde ... Airport '79 is a 1979 American disaster film (in the UK, it was released a year later as Airport '80: The Concorde). The film was the fourth and final installment of the Airport series. Panned by critics, the film made only US$13...
Initial release date:
- Aug 17, 1979
Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
World Trade Center
World Trade Center is a 2006 disaster drama film, directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers of New York City. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and...
Initial release date:
- Aug 9, 2006
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 65,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Volcano
Volcano is a 1997 disaster-action film starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, and Don Cheadle. It was directed by Mick Jackson, and was released in the United States on April 25, 1997.
An earthquake hits Los Angeles. Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones), the...
Initial release date:
- Apr 25, 1997
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 90,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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The Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm is a 2000 film adapted from the book of the same title by Sebastian Junger. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, William Fichtner, John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes, Diane...
Initial release date:
- Jun 30, 2000
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 130 min (78 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 120,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Dante's Peak
Dante's Peak is a 1997 disaster film starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. It portrays the effect of a volcano erupting in a small town in the Pacific Northwest portion of the United States. It was released a few months before Volcano and...
Initial release date:
- Feb 7, 1997
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 104,000,000 (US$)
When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide is a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1932 novel co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. The film was shot in Technicolor, directed by Rudolph Maté and was the winner of the 1951 Academy Award for special...
Initial release date:
- Aug 1951
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 83 min (50 hs )
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Asteroid
Asteroid is a 1997 NBC TV movie about the United States government trying to stop an asteroid colliding with the Earth. It stars Michael Biehn. The movie won the 1997 Emmy Award in category Outstanding Special Visual Effects.
Late one night, near...
Initial release date:
- Feb 16, 1997
Runtime:
- 120 min (72 hs )
Produced by:
Threads
Threads is a 1984 BBC television play set in the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire, depicting the effects of a nuclear war and its aftermath on the United Kingdom. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and...
Initial release date:
- 1984
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Screenplay by:
Independence Day
Independence Day (also known by its promotional abbreviation ID4) is a 1996 science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they coincidentally converge in the Nevada desert...
Initial release date:
- 1996
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 145 min (87 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
Titanic
Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of...
Initial release date:
- 1997
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 194 min (116 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 200,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Poseidon
Poseidon is a 2006 action-adventure disaster film and the third film adaptation of The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico. It stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, and Richard Dreyfuss. It was directed by Wolfgang Petersen...
Initial release date:
- May 12, 2006
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 160,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American action-adventure disaster film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner by a tsunami caused by an under sea earthquake and the desperate struggles of a handful...
Initial release date:
- Dec 12, 1972
Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 5,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The Towering Inferno
The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. The film was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno...
Initial release date:
- Dec 10, 1974
Runtime:
- 165 min (99 hs )
Produced by:
Armageddon
Armageddon is a 1998 disaster/science fiction-action film about a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers who are sent by NASA to stop an Asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It was directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and...
Initial release date:
- 1998
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 150 min (90 hs )
Deep Impact
Deep Impact is a 1998 sci-fi-drama disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, and Robert Duvall. The plot...
Initial release date:
- May 8, 1998
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Rating:
Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 75,000,000 (US$)
Rollercoaster
Rollercoaster is a summer 1977 disaster-suspense film directed by James Goldstone. It was one of four films created in Sensurround by Universal Studios, along with Midway, Earthquake, and the theatrical version of Battlestar Galactica.
An unknown...
Initial release date:
- Jun 10, 1977
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Airport '77
Airport '77 is a 1977 disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise.
The film starred a number of veteran actors, including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland. Like its predecessors, Airport...
Initial release date:
- Mar 11, 1977
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
King Kong
King Kong is a 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will. The film was made by RKO and was originally...
Initial release date:
- 1933
Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Screenplay by:
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The Day After
The Day After is an American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC Television Network.
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange...
Initial release date:
- 1983
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 126 min (75.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
San Francisco
San Francisco is a 1936 drama-adventure film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The...
Initial release date:
- Jun 26, 1936
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
Produced by:
Airplane!
Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd...
Initial release date:
- 1980
Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,500,000 (US$)
In Old Chicago
In Old Chicago is a 1937 American drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys." The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 6, 1938
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
Produced by:
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage is a 1937 documentary film which shows the burning, explosion, and crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg. (See Hindenburg disaster.)
The film is narrated by Herbert Morrison, who was there to watch the zeppelin's...
Initial release date:
- 1937
Airport
Airport is a 1970 American film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name. This film, which earned over $100,000,000 at the box office at a time when achieving that milestone was rare, focuses on an airport manager trying to keep his...
Initial release date:
- 1970
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 137 min (82.2 hs )
Produced by:
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a 1995 Adventure Drama film that dramatized the ill-fated lunar mission of the same name in 1970. The movie was adapted by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert from the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, and was directed by...
Initial release date:
- Jun 30, 1995
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 140 min (84 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 62,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome is a 1979 thriller film which tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard...
Initial release date:
- Mar 16, 1979
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
Produced by:
A Boy and His Dog
A Boy and His Dog is a short story written by science fiction author Harlan Ellison in 1969. A revised and expanded version was printed in Ellison's 1976 story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, and Ellison continued...
Initial release date:
- 1975
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 91 min (55 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
The Core
The Core is a 2003 science fiction disaster film loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of Earth's...
Initial release date:
- Mar 28, 2003
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 135 min (81 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 115,000,000 (US$)
Air Force One
Air Force One is a 1997 action thriller film, written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, director of In the Line of Fire. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley,...
Initial release date:
- Jul 25, 1997
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 85,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
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Testament
Testament (1983) is a drama film directed by Lynne Littman and starring Jane Alexander. Originally produced for the PBS series American Playhouse, it was given a theatrical release instead (although PBS did subsequently air it a year later)....
Initial release date:
- Dec 9, 1983
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Red Dawn
Red Dawn is a 1984 American war film directed and co-written by John Milius and written by Kevin Reynolds. The film is set in an alternate timeline during the mid-1980s, and deals with an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union and its...
Initial release date:
- Aug 10, 1984
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 4,200,000 (US$)
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) is a science fiction film based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive, eponymous American defense computer becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.
Imagine...
Initial release date:
- 1970
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
Produced by:
Twister
Twister is a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as "storm chasers" researching tornadoes. It was directed by Jan de Bont. The film was based upon a script by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. The film was...
Initial release date:
- May 17, 1996
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 92,000,000 (US$)
The Omega Man
The Ωmega Man (1971) is an English language science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and released in 1971. Starring Charlton Heston, it is based on the novel I Am Legend (1954) by American writer Richard Matheson. The screenplay is by John...
Initial release date:
- 1971
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science-fiction film that depicts the catastrophic effects of both global warming and global cooling in a series of extreme weather events that usher in a new ice age. It did well in the box office, grossing...
Initial release date:
- May 17, 2004
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 175,000,000 (US$)
Maximum Overdrive
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 horror film, written and directed by novelist Stephen King. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks, which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift....
Initial release date:
- Jul 25, 1986
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 10,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
Earthquake
Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for...
Initial release date:
- Nov 15, 1974
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
Produced by:
War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds is a 2005 science fiction film adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp. It stars Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier, a dock worker estranged from his wife...
Initial release date:
- Jun 29, 2005
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 132,000,000 (US$)
Backdraft
Backdraft is a 1991 American action-drama film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn. Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason...
Initial release date:
- May 24, 1991
Directed by:
Rating:
The Hindenburg
The Hindenburg (1975) is a movie based on the disaster of the German airship Hindenburg. The film was produced and directed by Robert Wise, and was written by Nelson Gidding, Richard Levinson and William Link based on the book of the same name by...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 1975
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
Produced by:
10.5
10.5 is a 2004 disaster film directed by John Lafia which aired as a television miniseries in the United States on May 2, 2004 and May 3, 2004. The plot focuses on a series of catastrophic earthquakes along the United States' west coast, culminating...
Initial release date:
- May 2, 2004
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 165 min (99 hs )
Alive
Alive is a 1993 film by the husband and wife team, director Frank Marshall and producer Kathleen Kennedy. It is based upon Piers Paul Read's acclaimed 1974 book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (which itself was based upon interviews with...
Initial release date:
- 1993
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Without Warning
Without Warning is a U.S. TV movie that premiered on CBS on Halloween night, October 31, 1994. The movie centered on one news reporter (veteran journalist Sander Vanocur appearing as himself) and a scientific analyst (Jane Kaczmarek as Dr. Caroline...
Initial release date:
- 1952
Outbreak
Outbreak (1995) is a suspense film starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Spacey. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen. In addition, Outbreak features Cuba Gooding, Jr., Donald Sutherland, and Patrick Dempsey.
The film...
Initial release date:
- Mar 10, 1995
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 127 min (76.2 hs )
Produced by:
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Open Water
Open Water is a 2004 film based on the true story of an American couple, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went out with a scuba diving group, Outer Edge Dive Company, on the Great Barrier Reef, and were accidentally left behind because the dive...
Initial release date:
- Oct 26, 2003
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 79 min (47 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 130,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Daylight
Daylight is a 1996 disaster film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and Danielle Harris. It was directed by Rob Cohen and released in theaters on December 6, 1996.
The film opens with a waste management firm in...
Initial release date:
- 1996
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
Miracle Mile
Miracle Mile is a 1988 thriller film directed by Steve De Jarnatt, and starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham that takes place mostly in real time. It is named after the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles, where most of the action takes...
Initial release date:
- 1988
Runtime:
- 87 min (52 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,000,000 (US$)
Screenplay by:
SST: Death Flight
SST Death Flight (aka SST: Disaster in the Sky) is a 1977 made-for-TV movie produced by ABC Circle Films. It featured an all-star television cast and was directed by David Lowell Rich, who went on to direct The Concorde...Airport '79. The film...
Initial release date:
- 1977
By Dawn's Early Light
By Dawn’s Early Light is an HBO Original Movie, aired in 1990 and set in 1991. It is based on the 1983 novel Trinity's Child, written by William Prochnau. The film is one of the last films to depict the events of a fictional World War III before the...
Initial release date:
- May 19, 1990
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
Meteor
Meteor is a 1979 disaster film in which scientists detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth and struggle with international, cold war politics in their efforts to prevent disaster. The movie starred Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.
It was...
Initial release date:
- 1979
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 16,000,000 (US$)
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Speed 2: Cruise Control is a 1997 action film produced and directed by Jan de Bont, and released by 20th Century Fox. It stars Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison and Jason Patric. It is a sequel to Speed, although Keanu Reeves and Dennis...
Initial release date:
- Jun 13, 1997
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 121 min (72.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 110,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science fiction film produced and directed by Irwin Allen, released in 1961 by 20th Century Fox. The story was written by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett. Walter Pidgeon starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson, with...
Initial release date:
- Jul 12, 1961
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
Produced by:
In Nacht und Eis
In Nacht und Eis (German: "In Night and Ice"), also called Der Untergang der Titanic ("The Downfall of the Titanic") is a 1912 German film about the sinking of Titanic. The filming began during the summer of 1912 and the film premiered that winter....
Initial release date:
- 1912
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 194 min (116 hs )
Produced by:
Godzilla
Godzilla is a 1998 American science fiction film. It is a Hollywood remake of the Japanese film of the same name. It was co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich, director of Independence Day. The film did not meet its anticipated success with...
Initial release date:
- May 19, 1998
Directed by:
Rating:
Runtime:
- 140 min (84 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 125,000,000 (US$)
Titanic
Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. Its plot is centered around an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912.
Mrs. Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck), who is at the...
Initial release date:
- Apr 16, 1953
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 98 min (59 hs )
Produced by:
The Hurricane
The Hurricane (1937) is a film, directed by John Ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, about a tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. It stars Dorothy Lamour and also Jon Hall, with Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, and...
Initial release date:
- 1937
Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Produced by:
Category 6: Day of Destruction
Category 6: Day of Destruction is a 2004 four-hour miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, with the first part aired on November 14 and the second on November 17. It was later released to DVD on February 15, 2005. The...
Initial release date:
- 2004
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 174 min (104 hs )
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York is a 1999 four-hour miniseries that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in two parts, with the first part aired on November 14 and the second on November 16. It was released to VHS in 2000, and on DVD in 2001...
Initial release date:
- Nov 14, 1999
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 170 min (102 hs )
The High and the Mighty
The High and the Mighty is a 1954 CinemaScope drama adventure film with a star-laden ensemble cast released through Warner Brothers. The film starred and was co-produced by John Wayne, directed by William A. Wellman, and written by Ernest K. Gann...
Initial release date:
- Jul 3, 1954
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 147 min (88.2 hs )
