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Main article: Disaster film

See also: Doomsday film

This list of disaster and doomsday films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists' attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster presented.

Natural disasters

Geological

• On Hostile Ground (2000 TV)
• Cave In (2003 TV)
• The Core (2003)
• Descent (2005)
• Doomsday Prophecy (2011 TV)

Avalanches

• Avalanche (1978)
• Avalanche Express (1979)
• High Ice (1980 TV)
• Vertical Limit (2000)
• Avalanche Alley (2001)

Earthquakes

• Deluge (1933)
• San Francisco (1936)
• The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
• The Night the World Exploded (1957)
• Crack in the World (1965)
• Earthquake (1974)
• The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990 TV miniseries)
• Congo (1995)
• Aftershock (1998)
• Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999 TV miniseries)
• Epicenter (2000 TV)
• 10.5 (2004 TV miniseries)
• Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2004)
• 10.5: Apocalypse (2005 TV miniseries)
• Descent (2005)
• Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006 TV)
• Descent 2 (2007)
• 2012 (2009)
• 2012: Supernova (2009 TV)
• Megafault (2009 TV)
• Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010 TV)
• Doomsday Prophecy (2011 TV)

Electrical disturbances and lightning

• NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV)
• Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010 TV)
• 2012: Supernova (2009 TV)

Meteors, asteroids and comets

• The End of the World (1916)
• Meteor (film) (1979)
• Night of the Comet (1984 TV)
• Asteroid (1997 TV)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Dinosaur (2000)
• Evolution (2001)
• Post Impact (2004 TV)
• Zathura (2005)
• Anna's Storm (2007)
• Impact (2008 TV miniseries)
• Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006 TV)
• 2012: Supernova (2009 TV)

Volcanoes

• The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
• The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
• Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
• The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
• St. Helens (1981)
• Volcano (1997)
• Dante's Peak (1997)
• Scorcher (2002)
• Dragon Head (2003)
• End Day (docudrama) (2005)
• Supervolcano (docudrama) (2005)
• Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006 TV)
• Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006 docudrama)
• Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
• 2012 (2009)
• Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010 TV)

Hydrological

Floods

• Flood (film) (2007)

Tsunami

• Deluge (1933)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• Meteor (1979)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
• 10.5 (2004 TV miniseries)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005 TV miniseries)
• 10.5 Apocalypse (2006 TV miniseries)
• Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)
• Poseidon (2006)
• Flood (2007 TV)
• Dasavathaaram (2008)
• 2012 (2009)
• Tidal Wave (2009)
• Titanic II (2010 TV)

Climate

• 2012: Ice Age (2011)
• Absolute Zero (2005 TV)
• Arctic Blast (2010)
• Atomic Twister (2002 TV)
• Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004 TV miniseries)
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005 TV miniseries)
• Doomsday Prophecy (2011 TV)
• Flood (2007 TV)
• End Day (2005 TV docudrama)
• Hard Rain (1998)
• Heatstroke (2008 TV)
• Hurricane (1979)
• Ice Twisters (2009 TV)
• Lost City Raiders (2008 TV)
• Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
• NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV)
• Night of the Twisters (1996 TV)
• The Band Concert (1935)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• The Fire Next Time (1993 TV)
• The Hurricane (1937)
• The Little Whirlwind (1941)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Titanic II (2010 TV)
• Tornado! (1996)
• Tornado Warning (2002)
• Twister (1996)

Fires

• City on Fire (1979)
• Dante's Inferno (1935)
• Fire! (1901)
• Fire Down Below (1997 drama)
• Firestorm (1998)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• Knowing (2009)
• Ladder 49 (2004)
• On Deadly Ground (1994 Drama)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)
• San Francisco (1936)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)
• Volcano (1997)
• Firestorm (1998)
• Super 8 (2011)

Epidemics

• Absolon (2001)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• The Andromeda Strain (2008 TV miniseries)
• Blindness (2008)
• Cabin Fever (2003)
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009)
• Carriers (2009)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Contagion (2011)
• Covert One: The Hades Factor (2006)
• Daybreakers (2010)
• Doomsday (2008)
• Ebola Syndrome (1996)
• Epidemic (1987)
• Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
• Flying Virus (2001)
• The Happening (2008)
• I Am Omega (2007)
• The Invasion (2007)
• It's Great to Be Alive (1933)
• The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
• The Last Man on Earth (1924)
• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• Outbreak (1995)
• Pandora's Clock (1996)
• Panic in the Streets (1950)
• Perfect Sense (2011)
• Plague (1978)
• Quarantine (2008)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• The Satan Bug (1965)
• Signs (2002)
• Smallpox 2002 (2002)
• SST: Death Flight (1977)
• Virus (1980)
• Virus (1996 TV)
• Virus (1999)
• Warning Sign (1985)
• Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
• Undead (2003)
• Resident Evil(2002)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Space

• Anna's Storm (2007)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Asteroid (1997)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
• The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Disaster Movie (2008)
• Doomsday Prophecy (2011 TV)
• End Day (docudrama) (2005)
• End of the World (1977)
• Epoch (2001)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Judgment Day (1999)
• Knowing (2009)
• Lifeforce (1985)
• Meteor (1979)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• Pandorum (2009)
• Signs (2002)
• Solar Attack (2005) AKA Solar Strike
• Solar Crisis (1990)
• Sunshine (2007)
• 2012: Supernova (2009 TV)
• Tycus (1998)
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
• Without Warning (1994)

Aliens

• 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
• 2010 (1984)
• Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
• Aelita (1924)
• The Alien (1960s)
• Alien Abduction (2005)
• Alien Hunter (2003)
• Alien Intruder (1993)
• Aliens in the Attic (2009)
• Allegro Non Troppo (1977)
• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• The Arrival (1996)
• Attack the Block (2011)
• AVH: Alien vs Hunter (2007)
• Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
• Battle in Outer Space (1959)
• Battlefield Earth (2000)
• Battlestar Galactica (1978)
• The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)
• Bedtime Stories (2008)
• Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)
• Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix (2007)
• Bender's Big Score (2007)
• Bender's Game (2008)
• Beware! The Blob (1972)
• The Blob (1958)
• The Blob (1988 remake)
• Breeders (1986)
• Body Snatchers (1993)
• Captain Video (1949)
• The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Communion (1989)
• Contact (1997)
• Creature (1985)
• The Creature Wasn't Nice (1983)
• The Creeping Terror (1964)
• Creepozoids (1987)
• Critters (1986)
• Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)
• Critters 3 (1991)
• Critters 4 (1991)
• Dark City (1998)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
• The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)
• Decoys (2004)
• Destroy All Monsters (1957)
• Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
• Doom (2005)
• District 9 (2009)
• Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
• Enemy Mine (1985)
• Epoch (2001)
• Evolution (2001)
• Explorers (1985)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
• Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
• Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
• Gamera: Super Monster (1980)
• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1998)
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
• Godzilla 2000 (1999)
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
• Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla (1994)
• Good Boy! (2003)
• The Great Heep (1986)
• Hangar 18 (1980)
• Heatstroke (2008 TV)
• Heavy Metal (1981)
• Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
• Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
• Himmelskibet (1917)
• Impostor (2002)
• I am Number Four (2011)
• I Come in Peace (1990)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
• Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)
• Invaders from Mars (1953)
• Invaders from Mars (1986)
• The Invasion (2007)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Invasion of the Pod People (2007)
• It Conquered the World (1956)
• It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
• It Came from Outer Space (1953)
• The Invasion (2007)
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
• Killer Mountain (2011 TV)
• Knowing (2009)
• Koi... Mil Gaya (2003)
• Krull (1983)
• The Last Starfighter (1984)
• Lifted (2007)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Liquid Sky (1982)
• The Man from Planet X (1951)
• The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
• Mars Needs Moms (2011)
• Megamind (2010)
• Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor (1990)
• Monsters ||2010
• My Stepmother is an Alien ||1988
• My Favorite Martian (film) ||1999
• Night Skies (2007)
• Night of the Creeps (1986)
• Not of This Earth (1957)
• Outlander (2008)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
• Planet 51 (2009)
• Predators (2010)
• Progeny (1999)
• The Puppet Masters (1994)
• Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
• Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)
• Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Returner (2002)
• Robot Monster (1953)
• Signs (2002)
• Skyline ||2010
• Slither (2006)
• Solaris (1972)
• Solaris (2002)
• Spaced Invaders (1990)
• Species (1995)
• Species II (1998)
• Species III (2004)
• Species IV (2007)
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)
• Stargate (1994)
• Starman (1984)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
• Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)
• Strange Invaders (1983)
• Suburban Commando (1991)
• Super 8 (2011)
• Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
• Terrorvision (1987)
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
• The Forgotten (2004)
• The Fourth Kind (2009)
• The Green Slime (1967)
• The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit (2008)
• The Mysterians (1957)
• The Shadow Men (1998)
• The Thing from Another World (1951)
• The X from Outer Space (1967)
• They Live (1988)
• Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
• This Island Earth (1955)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
• Transmorphers (2007)
• Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)
• The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
• UHF (film) (1989)
• Under the Mountain (2009)
• Underdog (2007)
• U.F.O. (1993)
• Vague (2009)
• Virus (1999)
• The Visitor (1979)
• Within the Rock (1996)
• Xtro (1983)

Man-made disasters

Hazardous materials

• Daylight (movie) (1996)
• End Day (docudrama) (2005)
• Fire Down Below (1994)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• Resident Evil: Degeneration (CG Animation) (2008)
• Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
• The Magnetic Monster (1953)
• The Stand (1994 TV miniseries)

Chemicals

• Chain Reaction (1996)
• Daylight (1996)
• Fire Down Below (1994)
• The Children (1980)
• Danger Zone (1997)
• Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
• Fire Down Below (1997)
• The Happening (2008)
• Once Upon a Forest (1993)
• Right at Your Door (2006)
• The Patriot (1998)

Nuclear energy

• La Jetée (1963)
• The China Syndrome (1979)
• Knowing (2009)
• Atomic Train (1999)
• Atomic Twister (2002 TV)
• By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
• The Chain Reaction (1980)
• Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
• Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
• The Day After (1983)
• The Doomsday Machine (1972)
• Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• The Final Combat (1983)
• Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
• The Last War (1961)
• The Manhattan Project (1986)
• Miracle Mile (1988)
• Next (2007)
• On the Beach (1959)
• On the Beach (2000)
• Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Special Bulletin (1983)
• The Sum of All Fears (2002)
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
• Testament (1983)
• Threads (1984)
• The War Game (1965)
• Watchmen (2009)
• When the Wind Blows (1986)
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Transportation

Airplanes

• 9/11 (2002)
• Air Crew (1980 Russia) aka. Ekipazh
• Air Force One (1997)
• Airport (1970)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Airport '77 (1977)
• The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
• Airspeed (1998)
• Alive (1993)
• Cast Away (2000)
• Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 (1990 TV) aka. Aftermath
• The Day Britain Stopped (2003)
• Die Hard 2 (1990)
• Executive Decision (1996)
• Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV)
• Fearless (1993)
• Final Descent (1997 TV)
• Final Destination (2000)
• Fire and Rain (1989)
• Five Came Back (1939)
• Flight 93 (2006)
• Flight of The Living Dead (2007)
• Ground Control (1998)
• Happy Flight (2008)
• The High and the Mighty (1954)
• The Hindenburg (1975)
• Knowing (2009)
• Mayday (2005 TV)
• Millennium (1989)
• Miracle Landing (1990)
• No Highway in the Sky (1951)
• Pandora's Clock (1996)
• Panic in the Skies! (1996 TV)
• Passenger 57 (1992)
• Passengers (2008)
• Skyjacked (1972)
• Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center (2002)
• Starflight One (1983 TV)
• Stealth (2005)
• Storm Tracker (2000)
• Terror in the Sky (1971 TV)
• Turbulence (1997)
• United 93 (2006)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Zero Hour! (1957)

Cars and trucks

• Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
• Daylight (1996)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• Final Destination 2 (2003)
• The Final Destination (2009)
• Knowing (2009)
• Maximum Overdrive (1986)
• The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983)
• Speed (1994)
• Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976 TV)
• Trucks (1997)
• Super 8 (2011)

Ships and submarines

• Atlantic (1929)
• Britannic (2000)
• Crimson Tide (1995)
• Deja Vu (2006)
• Gray Lady Down (1978)
• Hostile Waters (1997)
• In Nacht und Eis (1912)
• In Search of the Castaways (1962)
• Juggernaut (1970)
• Kimba the White Lion (1950)
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
• The Last Voyage (1960)
• Lord of the Flies (1963)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• Noah (1998)
• Noah's Ark (1929)
• Poseidon (2006)
• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
• Tarzan (1999)
• Titanic
  • Saved from the Titanic (1912)
  • Titanic (1943)
  • Titanic (1953)
  • S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV)
  • Titanic (1996 TV miniseries)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • The Legend of the Titanic (1999)
  • Titanic II (2010)
• U-571 (2000)
• Ghost Ship (2002 film)
• Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
• The Little Polar Bear (2001)

Spaceships

• Apollo 13 (1995)
• The Black Hole (1979)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Lost in Space (1998)
• Marooned (1969)
• Pandorum (2009)
• Space Cowboys (2000)
• Sunshine (2007)
• Apollo 18 (2011)

Theme parks

• Final Destination 3 (2006)
• Rollercoaster (1977)

Trains

• Anastasia (1997)
• Atomic Train (1999)
• Knowing (2009)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
• The Day of the Roses (1996)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Hatter's Castle (1942), believed to be the only film that depicts the Tay Bridge disaster.^{[citation needed]}
• Money Train (1995)
• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Runaway! (1973 TV) AKA The Runaway Train and Frozen Passage
• Runaway Train (1985)
• Silver Streak (1976)
• Source Code (2011)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
• Super 8 (2011)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Unstoppable (2010)
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
• Unbreakable (2000)

Animals and plants

Main article: List of natural horror films

Further information: List of giant monster films

• The Happening (2008)
• Bug (1975)
• The Deadly Mantis (1957)
• The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (-)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Squirm (1976)
• Tarantula (1955)
• Them! (1954)
• Tremors (1990)
• Bats (1999)
• Arachnophobia (film) (1990)
• The Hive (film) (2008)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Human disappearance

• Life After People (2008)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• The Quiet Earth (1985)
• Aftermath: Population Zero (2008), documentary starting with an imaginary disaster

Monsters

• Cloverfield (2008)
• The Godzilla franchise (1954–Present)
• D-War (2007)
• The Mist (2007)
• Monsters (2010)
• Mothra (1960)
• Rodan (1957)
• Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009)
• Sasquatch Mountain (2006)
• Yeti (film) (2008)
• Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus (2010)
• Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011)
• Mega Piranha (2010)
• Super 8 (2011)

Other

• Remember Me (2010) (9/11)