# 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)
* Backdraft (1991)
* The Burning Sea (2021)
* City on Fire (1979)
* The Core (2003)
* Crack in the World (1965)
* Dante's Inferno (1935)
* Daylight (1996)
* Deepwater Horizon (2016)
* Fire! (1977)
* Firestorm (1998)
* In Old Chicago (1937)
* Ladder 49 (2004)
* Pandora (2016)
* Red Skies of Montana (1952)
* The Tower (2012)
* The Towering Inferno (1974)
* Trapped (2001)

## Natural disasters

* 10.0 Earthquake (2014)
* 10.5 (2004)
* 13 Minutes (2021)
* 2012 (2009)
* After the Shock (1990)
* Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
* Armageddon (1998)
* Asteroid (1997)
* Avalanche (1978)
* Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
* California Firestorm (2002)
* Christmas Icetastrophe (2014)
* Christmas Twister (2012)
* Cyclone (1978)
* Dante's Peak (1997)
* The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
* Deep Impact (1998)
* Deluge (1933) "the first studio produced narrative disaster picture."
* Devil Winds (2003)
* Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
* Earthquake (1974)
* Earthquake in New York (1998)
* Fire Twister (2015)
* Flood (2007)
* Flood! (1976)
* Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)
* Geostorm (2017)
* The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
* Greenland (2020)
* Hard Rain (1998)
* Heatwave! (1974)
* The Hurricane (1937)
* Hurricane (1979)
* Ice (1998)
* The Impossible (2012)
* Into the Storm (2014)
* Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
* Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
* Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)
* Meteor (1979)
* Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)
* Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)
* Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)
* Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005)
* Night of the Twisters (1996)
* The Night the World Exploded (1957)
* NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)
* On Hostile Ground (2000)
* The Perfect Storm (2000)
* Pompeii (2014)
* Poseidon (2006)
* The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
* The Quake (2018)
* The Rains Came (1939)
* Raise the Titanic (1980)
* S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
* San Andreas (2015)
* San Francisco (1936)
* Seattle Superstorm (2012)
* St. Helens (1981)
* Storm (1999)
* Super Cyclone (2012)
* Tidal Wave (1973)
* Tidal Wave (2009)
* Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)
* Titanic (1953)
* Titanic (1996)
* Titanic (1997)
* Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)
* Tornado! (1996)
* Tornado Warning (2002)
* Twister (1996)
* Twisters (2024)
* Tycus (1998)
* Volcano (1997)
* The Volcano Disaster (also known as Nature Unleashed: Volcano, 2005)
* Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
* The Wave (2015)
* When Time Ran Out (1980)
* The Happening (2008)

## End of days

* The Day After (1983)
* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
* When Worlds Collide (1951)
* Knowing (2009)

## 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 (1998)
* Alive (1993)
* The Doomsday Flight (1966)
* Fire and Rain (1989)
* The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
* Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
* The High and the Mighty (1954)
* The Hindenburg (1975)
* Sully (2016)
* Survive! (1976)
* Turbulence (1997)
* United 93 (2006)
* Zero Hour! (1957)

## The atomic age

* Atomic Train (1999)
* Atomic Twister (2002)
* Control (1987)
* Friend of the World (2020)
* The Lost Missile (1958)
* Miracle Mile (1988)
* On the Beach (1959)
* Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

## Epidemics and pandemics

* The Andromeda Strain (1971)
* The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
* Contagion (2011)
* Outbreak (1995)
* Perfect Sense (2011)
* Plague (1979)
* The Stand (1994)
* Virus (1980)
* Virus (1995)
* Warning Sign (1985)

## Shipwrecks

* Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
* Britannic (2000)
* The Finest Hours (2016)
* Gray Lady Down (1978)
* K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
* The Last Voyage (1960)
* A Night to Remember (1958)
* Poseidon (2006)
* The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
* The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
* Raise the Titanic (1980)
* S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
* Titanic (1953)
* Titanic (1996)
* Titanic (1997)
* Titanic: The Legend Goes On (2000)