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
See also: List of films about nuclear issues
 * 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)

End of days

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

Airplanes

 * 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)