Disaster Film
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    Panic in Year Zero (1962)

    A couple (Ray Milland, Jean Hagen) and their teenage son (Frankie Avalon) and daughter enter the...

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    Stranded

    An airliner crashes in the South American jungle and among the survivors is a convicted killer and...

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    Tragico Terremoto en Mexico

    This routine disaster melodrama is based on the actual earthquake that occurred in Mexico City on...

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    Derrumbe

    Society collapses in the wake of the 1985 earthquakes in this campy, surrealistic drama. Fabian...

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    Raspad (1992)

    Drama portraying the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1986.

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    Ciclon

    The disaster genre gets the exploitation treatment in this gruesome tale of survival at sea from...

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    The Last Schoolbell (1998)

    A meteor shower threatens a small American town.

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    Quake! (1992)

    Using footage from the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the story unfolds around a girl captured...

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    A Captive in the Land (1993)

    A Soviet pilot and an American meteorologist struggle to survive after their plane crashes on the...

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    Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1997)

    The giant turtle is awakened from his long slumber to protect Japan from a rival monster's...

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    Maverick on a Mobile (1998)

    A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.

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    Let There Be Light

    Film concerning the conflict between the Turkish government and the Kurdish rebels.

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    Vajont

    On October 9, 1963, one of the worst disasters in Italian history saw a mountain landslide overflow...

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    Five Dedicated to Ozu (1951)

    Four men and a woman (Susan Douglas) spend the aftermath of a nuclear war bickering in a Frank Lloyd...

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    Nippon Chinbotsu

    Japan will sink down to the deep sea. The governments only hope is evacuate all Japanese to some...

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    Juggernaut (1974)

    British experts (Richard Harris, David Hemmings) try to disarm bombs on a captain's (Omar Sharif)...

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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)

    Based on the story by Thornton Wilder. Five people fall to their deaths when a bridge collapses in...

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    The Deluge

    This remarkable early-talkie "disaster" flick was the first directorial effort of Felix E. Feist. An...

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    The Hurricane

    John Ford's tale of the love between a South Sea island couple and the vindictive governor who...

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    San Francisco (1936)

    A Barbary Coast gambler (Clark Gable) loves his new saloon singer (Jeanette MacDonald), then loses...

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    Train of Events

    The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different...

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    Hard Rock Harrigan

    Hard Rock Harrigan is an easygoing George O'Brien actioner with emphasis on comedy and romance. The...

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    Atlantis

    One of the supposed masterpieces of the Danish silent screen, Atlantis certainly enjoyed a...

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    The Brave Don't Cry

    The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of...

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    Disaster

    It's always a risky venture to give a film a title like Disaster (certain critics, like certain...

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    Draegerman Courage

    A French Canadian (Barton MacLane) rescues his girlfriend's (Jean Muir) father (Henry O'Neill) and...

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    Flames of Fear

    A coward turned hero saves his fiancee's brother from death at the mine and becomes respected by his...

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    Flying Hostess

    Flying Hostess stars Judith Allen as the title character, rookie airline stewardess Helen Brooks....

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    The Johnstown Flood Narrated

    While there were often disasters such as floods, fires, and avalanches in silent films, few of them...

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    The Juggernaut

    Juggernaut might be better known today if it hadn't had the bad luck to open the same week as D.W....