Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Brian Trenchard-Smith
Writer(s):   Brett Thompson Kim Owen Smith Dennis A. Pratt Brian Trenchard-Smith
Studio:  Britannic Productions Ltd., Flashpoint
Year Released:  2000        Running Time:  93 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, History, and War
Category of Disaster:  Boat/ship, Manmade, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Fictional accout of the 1916 sinking of Titanic's sister ship, Britannic, chalking it up to German sabotage of the ship (instead of a probable torpedo, in reality)
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The Burning Sea (Nordsjøen) (2022)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   John Andreas Andersen
Writer(s):   Harald Rosenløw-Eeg Lars Gudmestad
Studio:  Fantefilm
Year Released:  2021        Running Time:  104 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Fire, and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  TBD/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  TBD%
Plot Snapshot:  Disaster strikes an offshore oil drilling platform
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Burning Train, The (1980)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Ravi Chopra
Writer(s):   Kamleshwar Ravi Chopra
Studio:  NH Studioz
Year Released:  1980        Running Time:  142 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, Train/tram, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Bombs on a train. What else do you need?
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Caustic Zombies (2011)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Johnny Daggers
Writer(s):   Johnny Daggers
Studio:  Daggervision
Year Released:  2011        Running Time:  0 min
Genre:  Horror
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Nuclear, and Zombies
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A small town deals with zombies created by the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster
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The Chain Reaction (1980)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Ian Barry
Writer(s):   Ian Barry
Studio:  Palm Beach Pictures
Year Released:  1980        Running Time:  92 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Earthquake, Manmade, Nuclear, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  An earthquake causes a leak at a Australian nuclear facility, threatening the locals. An injured engineer who wants to warn residents is on the run from his boss, who wants to cover up the accident at all costs.
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Challenger (1990)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Glenn Jordan
Writer(s):   George Englund
Studio:  George Englund Productions, IndieProd Company Productions, King Phoenix Entertainment
Year Released:  1990        Running Time:  160 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the fatal 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff, with a focus on civilian passenger Krista McAuliffe.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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The Challenger Disaster (2013)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   James Hawes
Writer(s):   Kate Gartside
Studio:  BBC Films, Erste Weltweit Medien, Moonlighting Films
Year Released:  2013        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  92%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the fatal 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, and the commission charged with finding the cause.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good) and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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Links to Buy/Rent:Chernobyl (2019)
Movie Type:  Miniseries         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Johan Renck
Writer(s):   Craig Mazin
Studio:  Home Box Office (HBO), Sky Television
Year Released:  2019        Running Time:  330 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and Nuclear
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  96%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear facility in the USSR, and its aftermath
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer and Side character who sacrifices him/herself
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Chernobyl: Abyss (Kogda padali aisty) (2021)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Danila Kozlovsky
Writer(s):   Elena Ivanova Aleksey Kazakov
Studio:  Central Partnership Productions, Group of Companies Gpm Kit, Non-Stop Productions
Year Released:  2021        Running Time:  136 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and Nuclear
Ratings:
    Metascore:  '--/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  '--%
Plot Snapshot:  A heroic fireman and other volunteers work to contain the blazes after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explodes
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Anthony Page
Writer(s):   Robert Peter Gale Thomas Hauser Ernest Kinoy
Studio:  Carolco Pictures, Orbis Communications, Roger Gimbel Productions
Year Released:  1991        Running Time:  95 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Nuclear
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Ukraine, with a focus on the people responding to the meltdown
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Children of Eve (1915)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   John H. Collins
Writer(s):   John H. Collins
Studio:  Edison Company
Year Released:  1915        Running Time:  73 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Fire and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Morality play set in the backdrop of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 women, men, and children
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer
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City on Fire (1979)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Alvin Rakoff
Writer(s):   Jack Hill David P. Lewis Celine la Freniere
Studio:  Astral Bellevue Pathé, Astral Films, Canadian Film Development Corporation
Year Released:  1979        Running Time:  106 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Fire, and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  This is what happens when you let your kids play with matches--they get dissatisfied with their jobs and decide to burn it all down.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Phil Lord Christopher Miller
Writer(s):   Judi Barrett Ron Barrett Rob Greenberg Phil Lord Christopher Miller
Studio:  Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation
Year Released:  2009        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Adventure, Animation, and Comedy
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  66/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  86%
Plot Snapshot:  A failed scientist invents a machine that makes food fall from the sky. What could possibly go wrong?
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Links to Buy/Rent:Colossal (2016)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Nacho Vigalondo
Writer(s):   Nacho Vigalondo
Studio:  Toy Fight Productions, Brightlight Pictures, Sayaka Producciones Audiovisuales
Year Released:  2016        Running Time:  109 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Creatures, Manmade, Monsters, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  70/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  80%
Plot Snapshot:  A recovering alcoholic slowly realizes that she is somehow linked with the destructive actions of a Godzilla-like creature in Seoul, South Korea.
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The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   David Lowell Rich
Writer(s):   Arthur Hailey Jennings Lang Eric Roth
Studio:  Universal Pictures
Year Released:  1979        Running Time:  113 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  14%
Plot Snapshot:  The last (and most ridiculous) of the Aiport movies sees a plane enroute to the Moscow Olympics being fired upon by a passenger's boyfriend. Starring all of your favorite 1970s B-list actors, plus the ever-reliable George Kennedy (RIP, Joe Patroni).
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Links to Buy/Rent:Contagion (2011)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Steven Soderbergh
Writer(s):   Scott Z. Burns
Studio:  Warner Bros., Participant Media, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, Double Feature Films, Digital Image Associates, Regency Enterprises
Year Released:  2011        Running Time:  106 min
Genre:  Drama and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Manmade, Medical, and Virus
Ratings:
    Metascore:  70/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  84%
Plot Snapshot:  CDC attempts to track down the source of a mysterious flu sweeping the globe
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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The Crash of Flight 401 (1978)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Barry Shear
Writer(s):   Rob Elder Sarah Elder Donald S. Sanford Steve Brown
Studio:  Charles Fries Productions
Year Released:  1978        Running Time:  95 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Manmade, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1972 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, which crashed into the Florida Everglades, and the ensuing investigation. In all, 101 of the 176 souls aboard were killed. See also The Ghost of Flight 401.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Dante's Inferno (1935)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Harry Lachman
Writer(s):   Philip Klein Robert Yost
Studio:  Fox Film Corporation
Year Released:  1935        Running Time:  89 min
Genre:  Drama
Category of Disaster:  Bridge collapse and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Unscrupulous businessman causes not one, but TWO, watery disasters
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Dark Horizon (2007)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Nicholas J. Hagen
Writer(s):   Ryan Deal
Studio:  Hagen / Deal Productions
Year Released:  2007        Running Time:  91 min
Genre:  Action and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and Terrorism
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Armed rebels spoil a family camping trip
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members
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The Day After (1983)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Nicholas Meyer
Writer(s):   Edward Hume
Studio:  ABC Circle Films
Year Released:  1983        Running Time:  127 min
Genre:  Drama and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, Nuclear, and War
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  100%
Plot Snapshot:  Serious dramatization of the effects of a nuclear missile strike on a university town in Kansas. One of the best ever made.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Val Guest
Writer(s):   Wolf Mankowitz Val Guest
Studio:  Melina Productions, Pax Films
Year Released:  1961        Running Time:  99 min
Genre:  Drama, Romance, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  86%
Plot Snapshot:  A world-weary reporter is covering the mother of all stories: The U.S. and U.S.S.R. have simultaneously tested nuclear weapons, throwing the world off its axis of rotation and causing severe floods, fires, etc. Can setting off another nuke rebalance the planet?
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Links to Buy/Rent:Daylight (1996)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Rob Cohen
Writer(s):   Leslie Bohem
Studio:  Davis Entertainment, Universal Pictures
Year Released:  1996        Running Time:  114 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  26%
Plot Snapshot:  The getaway car from a robbery hits a truck full of explosives in the Holland Tunnel, requiring a former EMS director to come to the rescue
TDA Checklist Items:  Iconic landmark destroyed and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Brian Trenchard-Smith
Writer(s):   Lionel Chetwynd
Studio:  Showtime Networks, Lionel Chetwynd Productions
Year Released:  2003        Running Time:  128 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Bridge collapse, Manmade, and Terrorism
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 9/11 attacks, told from the perspectives of then-President George W. Bush and his team members.
TDA Checklist Items:  Iconic landmark destroyed and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Paul Seed
Writer(s):   Michael Baker Bob Duffield
Studio:  HBO Films, BBC Films, Home Box Office (HBO)
Year Released:  1992        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Boat/ship, Manmade, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1989 running aground of the Exxon Valdez and subsequent oil spill in remote Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the devastating environmental and financial losses sustained.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Deadly Inferno (2016)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Brent Cole
Writer(s):  
Studio:  Silhouette Media Group
Year Released:  2016        Running Time:  85 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Fire and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Towering Inferno-lite: office workers are trapped on the 6th floor of their building when fire breaks out below them
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