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Disaster
see all genres ›Nothing spells entertainment like watching the near-destruction of our entire planet (or at least a major city or two). These action-oriented narratives imperil life as we know it with meteor crashes, rampaging monsters, killer plants or other amazing phenomena. Duck and cover!
Discover Disaster Films
Genres / Action/Adventure / Disaster
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Battle Girl
A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic as violent crime and corruption spreads throughout the region and punk gangs are ruling the streets. As if things weren’t bad enough, a chemical reaction...Start your free trial to watch
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Cyclone
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and the few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive. That is‚ until the rescue planes...Start your free trial to watch
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Demeking
In 1969, a young man named Hachiya finds an anonymous letter in a glass bottle which foretells of the apocalyptic arrival of a cosmic monster known as Demeking. Since then, he has physically prepared himself in a lone struggle for that fateful day when the monster will arrive.Start your free trial to watch
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European Rest Cure
This spoof on the popular travelogue genre follows an American tourist across Europe and the Middle East on a "rest cure," in which one physically or emotionally wrenching disaster follows another. Foreign locales were actually pasteboard sets of pyramids, Roman ruins and a French cafe, while additional...Start your free trial to watch
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Gorgo
A volcanic eruption in the North Atlantic brings to the surface a 65-foot prehistoric monster. Two treasure divers capture the creature and take him to London where he is put on display in a circus. A scientist is thoughtful enough to point out that the sailors' bonanza is only an infant and that a full-grown specimen would...Start your free trial to watch
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The Life of an American Fireman
The fire rescue was a popular subject across many forms of popular culture (songs, painting, journalistic essays, photography), but particularly in the early cinema. As early as 1896, traveling showman Lyman H. Howe had assembled five short films to tell the story of a fire rescue. The genre was so popular...Start your free trial to watch
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The Most Dangerous Game
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a superb, Pre-Code action/adventure film. Based upon a famous short story by Richard Connell, it follows big game hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) as he becomes quarry for another, the opulently deranged Count Zaroff (floridly played by Leslie Banks). Utilizing some of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Operation Haylift
Then-recent real-life blizzards that threatened Nevada cattle herds are recreated in this drama with Bill Williams and Ann Rutherford as ranchers imperiled by the snows until the United States Air Force organizes OPERATION HAYLIFT. Co-written by Joe Sawyer, one of the leading players, and made with Air...Start your free trial to watch
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Sotto il segno dello scorpione
Still active in their eighties with such well-received films as CAESAR MUST DIE, the Taviani brothers first made an international splash with this striking allegorical drama. Survivors of a disastrous volcanic eruption on one remote island flee to a neighboring isle where their forced cohabitation with the...Start your free trial to watch
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Supervivientes de los Andes
This incredible film is based on a true story. On October 13, 1972, the flight of Fairchild 571 carrying forty-five passengers crashed in the Andes mountains of Argentina. This horrible accident took the lives of most of the passengers (including many members of a professional rugby team). Sixteen people...Start your free trial to watch
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Treasure of the Amazon
In the depths of the lush, steamy Amazon jungle, rife with exotic life forms, a group of adventurers embark on a quest to discover a legendary river reportedly filled with diamonds "the size of your eyes" as well as precious jewels and gold, and in the process finds itself enveloped in incomprehensible...Start your free trial to watch
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Untamed Women
When an Air Force plane goes down mid-ocean, its captain (Mikel Conrad) and his three-man crew wash ashore on an uncharted island of fur-clad cuties (descended from the Druids) led by high priestess Sandra (Doris Merrick). Cult rites, a hostile tribe of Neanderthal men and (of course) mucho giant-lizard footage from ONE...Start your free trial to watch
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The World Sinks Except Japan
It’s 2011. Due to global warming and the shifting of tectonic plates, most of the Earth’s land mass has sunk beneath the surface of the ocean. Only Japan remains and refugees from all nations try to incorporate themselves into Japanese society: famous American actors do TV costume samurai dramas, white...Start your free trial to watch