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Airplane!
(1980)
The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in this spoof of disaster movies.
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Dante’s peak
(1997)
Dante's Peak, named the second most desirable place to live in America, is threatened by a formerly dormant volcano.
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Deep impact
(1998)
As a comet approaches Earth, individuals struggle with the thought of extinction.
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Descent
(2005)
When gigantic cracks appear in the Earth’s crust, a team of scientists must go deep into the center of the Earth to try to find a way to stop the destruction.
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Doomsday
(2008)
Three decades after Great Britain was quarantined to contain a deadly virus, signs that the super-bug has resurfaced prompt specialists back into the infected zone to try to find a cure.
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Dr. Strangelove, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
(1964)
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
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Flash Gordon: the deadly ray from Mars
(1936)
A mysterious force is draining Earth’s nitrogen supply, and Flash and his crew must fly to Mars to avert impending disaster.
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Flight of the Phoenix
(2004)
A cargo plane on a routine flight crashes hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. The survivors realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage.
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Into thin air: death on Everest
(1997)
This movie re-creates the agony and suspense of an ill-fated 1996 expedition to Everest that claimed at least five lives, including those of two world-class climbers.
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K-19: the widowmaker
(2002)
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
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Poseidon
(2006)
A rogue wave upends the luxury cruise ship "Poseidon" during a New Year's Eve party.
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Sunshine
(2007)
A team of astronauts is sent to re-ignite the dying sun with a massive nuclear weapon.
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The core
(2003)
Scientists discover that the Earth's electromagnetic forces have begun to collapse. To save the planet, they need to undertake the suicide mission of burrowing to the center of the Earth to bomb its insides back into action.
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The day after
(1983)
Following a nuclear strike against the U.S., families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
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The day after tomorrow
(2004)
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, a small band of survivors must ride out the growing super-storm and battle to stay alive.
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The happening
(2008)
A toxin infects the people of New York City and causes them to kill themselves.
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The Hindenburg
(1975)
Mixing fact and fiction, this dramatization of the journey and crash of the German dirigible targets sabotage as the underlying cause, rather than the more mundane effect of electricity lashing out at a couple of tons of hydrogen.
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The marksman
(2005)
The U.S. is tricked into targeting an 'armed' nuclear reactor captured by Chechen rebels, but a Special Ops team, led by Snipes, figures out a way to stop disaster from happening.
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The perfect storm
(2000)
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic, putting the crew of the sword fishing boat Andrea Gail in mortal danger.
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The Poseidon adventure
(1972)
A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their cruise ship is capsized by a tidal wave.
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