Crisis (disambiguation)

A crisis is a traumatic or stressful change for a person, or an unstable and dangerous situation for a society.

Crisis may also refer to:

Comics

 * Crisis (Fleetway), a British comic
 * Crisis on Infinite Earths, by DC Comics, often called in-universe as just "The Crisis"

Films

 * Crisis (1939 film), a documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis
 * Crisis (1946 film), a film directed by Ingmar Bergman
 * Crisis (1950 film), a film directed by Richard Brooks
 * Crisis (1972 film), a film directed by Robert Bruning
 * Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, a 1963 documentary directed by Robert Drew
 * Crisis (2021 film), a film directed by Nicholas Jarecki

Groups and labels

 * Crisis (band), a defunct punk rock group

Albums

 * Crisis (Alexisonfire album), a 2006 album by Alexisonfire
 * Crisis (Ornette Coleman album), a 1969 album by Ornette Coleman
 * Crisis? What Crisis?, a 1975 album by Supertramp

Songs

 * "Crisis", a 1961 song by Freddie Hubbard from Mosaic (Art Blakey album) and from Ready for Freddie
 * "Crisis", a 1978 song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from the album Kaya
 * "Crisis", a 1992 song by Fear Factory from Soul of a New Machine
 * "Crisis", a 2016 song by Anohni from Hopelessness (album)
 * "Crisis", a 2020 song by In Hearts Wake from Kaliyuga

Periodicals

 * Crisis Magazine, a publication of Sophia Institute Press
 * The Crisis (newspaper), a newspaper published during the first half of the American Civil War by Samuel Medary
 * The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP

Television

 * "Crisis" (M*A*S*H), a 1974 episode of the CBS television series
 * Crisis (TV series), 2014 television series produced for NBC
 * Crisis, the alternate title for Kraft Suspense Theatre in syndicated reruns
 * "Crisis", episode 3 of the 1964 Doctor Who serial Planet of Giants; may also refer to the original recorded version that never aired

Literature

 * Crisis (Majfud novel), a 2012 novel by Jorge Majfud
 * Crisis (Cook novel), a 2006 novel in the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook

Economics

 * Crisis theory, a theory generally associated with Marxian economics
 * Financial crisis, a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value

Psychology

 * Existential crisis, when a person doubts if his or her existence has a purpose
 * Identity crisis (psychology)
 * Midlife crisis, several issues that confront some people aged from 40 to 55
 * Quarter-life crisis, a recently coined similar term for 20- to 30-year-olds
 * Suicidal crisis

Other uses

 * Crisis (charity) (formerly Crisis at Christmas), a British charity
 * Crisis (dynamical systems), the sudden appearance or disappearance of a strange attractor as the parameters of a dynamical system are varied
 * Chinese translation of crisis, popular misconception that "crisis" is translated "danger"+"opportunity"