19 Best Disaster Movies of All Time

A doomed shipboard romance set against history's most famous maritime disaster.

A blizzard, a bomber, and a stowaway all converge on one chaotic night at a major airport.

A fire breaks out during a skyscraper's star-studded opening gala, trapping guests at the top.

A capsized ocean liner's survivors climb upward through the wreckage looking for a way out.

A moon mission's crew must improvise a way home after an oxygen tank explosion cripples their spacecraft.

A pilot's emergency river landing saves every passenger, then triggers an investigation questioning his judgment.

A family is separated and searches for each other after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

An Army virologist races to contain a lethal airborne virus before it spreads beyond one small town.

A fast-spreading virus's outbreak is tracked from patient zero through a global scramble for a vaccine.

A former UN investigator races the globe to find the origin of a fast-spreading zombie pandemic.

A crew of oil drillers is trained as astronauts to blow up an asteroid headed for Earth.

Humanity races to stop or survive a comet on a collision course with Earth.

Earth unites against an alien invasion fleet bent on total annihilation.

A sudden climate shift plunges the world into an instant, catastrophic ice age.

Storm chasers race a series of tornadoes to test an experimental data-collection device.

A series of global cataclysms forces humanity into a last-ditch survival ark.

A massive earthquake along the San Andreas Fault forces a rescue pilot to save his own family.

A volcanologist tries to convince a small town to evacuate before a dormant volcano erupts.

A volcanic eruption beneath Los Angeles threatens to bury the city in lava.