Best Disaster Films

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

The shorted re-edited American version of Submersion of Japan, in which Japan slowly sinks into the sea as the US and Japan work together to stop it.

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.

The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.

M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

After an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors' hopes are buoyed by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who comes up with a plan to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.

The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.