DISASTER

PRE-70’s DISASTER

San Francisco 1936 

The Hurricane 1937  •  John Ford 

Titanic  1953 

The High and the Mighty 1954 

Zero Hour! 1957 

A Night to Remember 1958

The Devil at 4 O'Clock 1961

Flight of the Phoenix 1965

70’s DISASTER

The Big One’s

The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame PG -

The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin PG -

Earthquake 1974 Mark Robson PG -

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 1979 Irwin Allen NR

Airport

Airport 1970

Airport 1975 1974 Jack Smight NR

Airport '77 1977 Jerry Jameson NR -

Airport '79: Concorde 1979 David Lowell Rich NR -

Terrorists and Crazies

Skyjacked (1972) starring Charlton Heston

Juggernaut 1974 Richard Lester PG -

Two-Minute Warning (1976) starring Charlton Heston

The Cassandra Crossing 1977 starring Burt Lancaster   

The Last Wave 1977 Peter Weir PG

Black Sunday (1977)

Rollercoaster 1977 James Goldstone NR -

Other 70’s Disasters

The Hindenburg 1975 Robert Wise PG –

Avalanche 1978 Corey Allen NR

Lady Down (1978) also starring Charlton Heston PG –

Hurricane (a 1979 remake of John Ford's 1937 film)  PG -

The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges PG -

City on Fire (1979) starring Henry Fonda.

When Time Ran Out 1980

Disastrous Comedy

The Big Bus 1976 James Frawley NR -

Airplane! 1980  

Airplane II: The Sequel 1982.

SCI-FI DISASTER

On the Beach 1959

The Day The Earth Caught Fire 1961   

Panic in Year Zero! 1962   

Fail-Safe 1964

Crack In The World 1965

Krakatoa, East of Java 1969   

The Andromeda Strain 1971

The Neptune Factor 1973 Daniel Petrie G -

Damnation Alley (1977)

The Swarm 1978 Irwin Allen PG -

Meteor (1979)

Coma 1979

Six String Samurai 1998 Lance Mungia PG13 –

Deep Impact 1998

Armageddon 1998

The Core 2003

The Day After Tomorrow 2004

Blindness 2008

Knowing 2009

Carriers 2009

2012 2009

2012 Doomsday 2008

2012: Supernova 2009

POST 70’s DISASTER

Backdraft 1991 Ron Howard NR -

Fearless 1993 Peter Weir R -

Alive 1993 Frank Marshall R

Twister 1996 Jan de Bont PG13 -

 Daylight 1996 Rob Cohen PG13 -

Tornado! 1996

The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan R -

Titanic 1997 James Cameron PG13 -

Dante's Peak 1997 Roger Donaldson PG13 -

 Volcano 1997 Mick Jackson PG13 -

 Firestorm 1998 Dean Semler R -

The Perfect Storm 2000 Wolfgang Petersen   

Flight of the Phoenix  2004

The Poseidon Adventure 2005

World Trade Center 2006 Oliver Stone

Tsunami: The Aftermath 2006

Poseidon 2006 Wolfgang Petersen

Flood 2007

Tidal Wave 2009

The Storm 2009