Top 3 Best Disaster Movies of All Time. Number 3. World War Z 2013. Loosely based on Max Brooks' novel, World War Z focuses its attention on the efforts of Brad Pitt's Jerry Lane, a former UN investigator who's called upon to find a solution to the widespread zombie apocalypse that's quickly spreading throughout the globe, leaving whole cities and ruins, and threatening to decimate humanity. There's no way for us to truly experience the false scope of this disaster, and we're not getting an independent day sequence that shows major cities being wiped out. It's true Jerry's travels as he attempts to seek out information in various unstable environments that we get to see, just how bad the situation continues to get, whether he's questioning people above the origins of the epidemic or visiting Jerusalem, which somehow have the foresight to build a massive wall to keep the zombies out. And World Wars had also manages to work a good old-fashioned airplane disaster into the mix. World War Z ranks highly as a disaster film because it doesn't rely solely on the disaster to keep its pace, nor is there simply a tale of survival. WWZ invites a solution into its plot, not in the form of a cure, but away for humanity to get ahead of this situation before it's too late. Number 2. Contagion, 2011. A micro and emerald Michael Bay, Steven Soderbergh is not typically the guy you think, but when you think of the disaster movie genre. Sure, he's doubled in big studio filmmaking, making movies like The Ocean's trilogy, and out of sight, but he is certainly better known for his smaller projects. But that didn't slow him down creating the large-scale epidemic film Contagion in 2011. Sporting a massive ensemble cost of star actors, none of whom are safe from the titular monster, the film aims to put a serious bug in your skin, and essentially make you afraid to touch your surroundings, and it is rather effective in doing so. The movie plays out very realistically, so when things do start getting really bad, and the world's population begins to shock the decrease, you begin to realize that Contagion is a disaster movie that could very easily play out in real life. With the exception of angry protesters and rioters, the film doesn't rank very high on the destruction scale, but all the same does a great job painting the portrait of a horrific global viral event. Each copy of the Blu-ray should come with a tiny little bottle of puerol, because you are definitely needed after a screening. Number one, Independence Day, 1996. Independence Day was not just a huge blockbuster, it was a game changer. Pulling an 817 million dollars worldwide, this was the highest-grossing movie of 1996. Today it is still the second-highest grossing disaster movies ever made, following behind the behemoth that was Titanic. Independence Day's special effects were cutting edge, and ignited audience enthusiasm, pushing studios to up the game in Summer movies spectacle. Plus, this was the unadulterated summer hit that launched Will Smith to make a starter. Today, Smith's star is a bit sun-yed, and the VFX may not look, as out of this world as it did 18 years ago. But for its ground scale tale of disaster and global coming together, Independence Day has earned a reputation as a rousing crowd-leaser, as well as one of the best Summer movies ever made, according to a 2010 Entertainment Weekly poll. It gave us your dropping action sequences, loveable, albeit stereotypical, characters, and one of the most inspiring features cinema has ever known. Thanks for checking out this video. Make sure to subscribe, because we upload new content every all-toned day. Enjoy!