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The Finest Hours (2016 film)
The Finest Hours is a 2016 Disney film directed by Craig Gillespie, dramatizing the Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the tanker SS Pendleton off Cape Cod.
The Hindenburg (film)
The Hindenburg is a 1975 Universal disaster film directed by Robert Wise, starring George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft, based on Michael M. Mooney's book and built on the fictional sabotage theory of the 1937 Lakehurst airship disaster.
The Hurricane Heist
The Hurricane Heist is a 2018 Rob Cohen action thriller starring Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, and Ryan Kwanten, about thieves robbing $600 million from a U.S. Treasury facility during a Category 5 hurricane on the Alabama Gulf Coast; it grossed $6.1 million and scored 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Impossible (2012 film)
The Impossible (Lo imposible), 2012 Spanish disaster drama by J.A. Bayona, based on María Belón's family surviving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami; stars Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland; €30M budget, Spain's top 2012 film, Oscar-nominated.
The Perfect Storm (film)
The Perfect Storm (2000) is Wolfgang Petersen's Warner Bros. disaster drama starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, adapted from Sebastian Junger's 1997 book about the Andrea Gail, lost in the October 1991 North Atlantic storm; ILM fluid-dynamics effects, $328.7 million worldwide, two Oscar nominations.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Ronald Neame and Irwin Allen's disaster film based on Paul Gallico's novel, follows survivors escaping a capsized ocean liner; it was 1972's top-grossing film and won an Oscar for "The Morning After."
The Sinking of Japan (日本沈没)
The Sinking of Japan (日本沈没, Nihon Chinbotsu) is a 2006 Japanese disaster film directed by Shinji Higuchi, in which scientists predict Japan will sink within a year.
The Towering Inferno
The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster film, also known as Towering Inferno, about a fire in a 138-story San Francisco skyscraper on opening night. Produced by Irwin Allen for Fox and Warner Bros., it was 1974's top-grossing film and won three Oscars.
The Wave (2015 film)
The Wave (Bølgen) is Roar Uthaug's 2015 Norwegian disaster film, Norway's first, about an Åkerneset landslide triggering a tsunami toward Geiranger with ten minutes' warning; it drew 832,643 admissions, won three Amanda awards, and was Norway's 88th Oscar submission.
Tidal Wave (해운대)
Tidal Wave (해운대, Haeundae) is a 2009 South Korean disaster film by Yoon Je-kyoon in which a mega-tsunami hits Busan's Haeundae beach; it drew 11.3 million admissions, the first Korean film past ten million since The Host.
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic, also known as James Cameron's Titanic, is a 1997 American romance and disaster film directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Titanic II (film)
Titanic II (Titanic 2) is a 2010 direct-to-TV disaster mockbuster from The Asylum, written and directed by and starring Shane Van Dyke with Bruce Davison and Brooke Burns; a tsunami drives an iceberg into a centennial replica liner.
Twister (1996 film)
Twister (1996) is an American disaster thriller directed by Jan de Bont, written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers testing the Dorothy device; second-highest-grossing film of 1996.
Twisters (film)
Twisters (2024) is a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 film Twister, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell as Oklahoma storm chasers attempting to tame a tornado with polymers; NOAA consulted on the science.
Under Paris
Under Paris (Sous la Seine) is a 2024 French Netflix shark-horror disaster film directed by Xavier Gens, starring Bérénice Bejo, about a mutated mako shark in the Seine before the Paris triathlon.
Unstoppable (2010 film)
Unstoppable is a 2010 American action thriller directed by Tony Scott, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine as railroad workers stopping a runaway toxic freight train.
Volcano (1997 film)
Volcano (1997) is a Mick Jackson disaster film for 20th Century Fox starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, in which lava erupts beneath Los Angeles; released after Dante's Peak, it grossed about $120 million worldwide.
Water Park Shark
Water Park Shark is a 2026 American horror-comedy directed by Sharknado's Anthony C. Ferrante, in which mutated great whites invade a Cape Cod water park; released digitally July 3, 2026, 91 minutes, PG-13, starring David Chokachi, Chelsea Gilson, and Matthew Dame.
White Squall (film)
White Squall is a 1996 American adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott, based on the 1961 sinking of the school sailing ship Albatross and starring Jeff Bridges.