Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Steven Hilliard Stern
Writer(s):   Robert M. Young John G. Fuller
Studio:  Paramount Television
Year Released:  1975        Running Time:  100 min
Genre:  Drama, History, Mystery, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel 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, killing 101 of the 176 souls aboard. As parts salvaged from the airplane were reused in other planes, ghosts of the killed crew started to appear. See also The Crash of Flight 401 (1978).
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The High and the Mighty (1954)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   William A. Wellman
Writer(s):   Ernest K. Gann
Studio:  Warner Bros., Wayne-Fellows Productions
Year Released:  1954        Running Time:  147 min
Genre:  Drama and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  25%
Plot Snapshot:  A blown engine jeopardizes a plane flying from Honolulu to San Francisco, affecting all of the passengers and crew in different ways
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Links to Buy/Rent:The Hindenburg (1975)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Robert Wise
Writer(s):   Richard Levinson William Link Michael M. Mooney Nelson Gidding
Studio:  The Filmakers Group, Universal Pictures
Year Released:  1975        Running Time:  125 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, History, and Mystery
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  40%
Plot Snapshot:  Fictionalized account of the 1937 air disaster, tacking on sabotage plot to explain the fire
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Links to Buy/Rent:Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011)
Movie Type:  Miniseries         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Philipp Kadelbach
Writer(s):   Johannes W. Betz Philip LaZebnik Martin Pristl
Studio:  RTL, TeamWorx Television & Film
Year Released:  2011        Running Time:  180 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, History, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Manmade, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1937 airship disaster, with a conspiracy assumed as the cause.
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Jinji pojiang (Crash Landing) (2000)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jianya Zhang
Writer(s):   Jian Hao
Studio:  Shanghai Film Studios
Year Released:  2000        Running Time:  114 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  NA/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  NA%
Plot Snapshot:  Things go Drastically Wrong on an airplane flight
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Last Flight to Abuja (2012)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Obi Emelonye
Writer(s):   Tunde Babalola Amaka Obi-Emelonye Obi Emelonye
Studio:  Nollywood Film Factory
Year Released:  2012        Running Time:  81 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Based on the 2006 crash of ADC Flight 53 in October 2006. A midair crisis forces a commercial flight into a disastrous emergency landing.
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Lost Flight (1970)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Leonard Horn
Writer(s):   Dean Riesner
Studio:  Universal Television
Year Released:  1970        Running Time:  104 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  The airplane crash is only the beginning of these peoples' troubles--they soon find themselves in a "Lord of the Flies" scenario. Bonus Billy Dee Williams sighting!
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Madam Satan (1930)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Cecil B. DeMille
Writer(s):   Jeanie Macpherson Gladys Unger Elsie Janis
Studio:  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Year Released:  1930        Running Time:  116 min
Genre:  Comedy and Musical
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A socialite sets out to win her unfaithful husband back from a chorus girl, by posing a seductress at a masquerade set on a zeppelin. What could go wrong?
TDA Checklist Items:  Classic song, Estranged family members, and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Millennium (1989)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Michael Anderson
Writer(s):   John Varley
Studio:  First Millenium Partnership, Gladden Entertainment
Year Released:  1989        Running Time:  108 min
Genre:  Drama, Mystery, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  11%
Plot Snapshot:  After two commercial jets collide head-on, why are the passengers' watches running backward?
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Miracle Landing (1990)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Dick Lowry
Writer(s):   Garner Simmons
Studio:  Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Year Released:  1990        Running Time:  85 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1988 flight of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, which was crippled by explosive decompression. One person died, and another 65 passengers and crew were injured.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Mooi Doodliggen (Play Dead) (2022)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  
Director(s):   Rolf van Eijk
Writer(s):   Roelof Jan Minneboo
Studio:  Revolver Amsterdam
Year Released:  2022        Running Time:   min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Manmade, Terrorism, and Transportation
Ratings:
IMDB: TBD    Metascore:  TBD/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  TBD%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 2014 missle attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine
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The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Hany Abu-Assad
Writer(s):   J. Mills Goodloe Charles Martin Chris Weitz
Studio:  Chernin Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Year Released:  2017        Running Time:  103 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  48/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  43%
Plot Snapshot:  Two strangers stranded by a remote plane crash forge a connection as they trek across miles and miles of snowy mountains
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One (2022)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  
Director(s):   Dmitriy Suvorov
Writer(s):   Oleg Presnyakov Vladimir Presnyakov
Studio:  TBA
Year Released:  2022        Running Time:   min
Genre:  Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
IMDB: TBD    Metascore:  TBD/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  TBD%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1981 midair collision between Aeroflot Flight 811 and a Tupolev Tu-16K bomber over Russia
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Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534 (2001)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jon Cassar
Writer(s):   Jim Makichuk
Studio:  Carlton America, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG)
Year Released:  2001        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A damaged pilot on administrative leave is called in as a last-minute first officer on a trans-Atlantic flight. Naturally, it all goes to hell and he must Save the Day.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Seven in Darkness (1969)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Michael Caffey
Writer(s):   John W. Bloch Leonard Bishop
Studio:  Paramount Television
Year Released:  1969        Running Time:  74 min
Genre:  Adventure and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Planetary, Storm, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  This first ABC Movie of the Week tells of a passenger plane on its way to Seattle, when a storm causes it to crash. The twist is that only the blind passengers survive, and they must make their way through the wilderness to safety.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Skyjacked (1972)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   John Guillermin
Writer(s):   Stanley R. Greenberg David Harper
Studio:  Walter Seltzer Productions
Year Released:  1972        Running Time:  101 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Manmade, Terrorism, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Vietnam vet demands to be taken to Russia...it goes without saying that he's mentally ill
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Links to Buy/Rent:Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve) (2022)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  
Director(s):   J.A. Bayona
Writer(s):   J.A. Bayona Nicolás Casariego Jaime Marques Pablo Vierci Bernat Vilaplana
Studio:  
Year Released:  2022        Running Time:   min
Genre:  Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
IMDB: TBD    Metascore:  TBD/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  TBD%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1972 crash of a plane carrying the Uruguyan rugby team in the Andes, and how some of them survived
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SST: Death Flight (1977)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   David Lowell Rich
Writer(s):   Robert L. Joseph Meyer Dolinsky Guerdon Trueblood William Roberts
Studio:  ABC Circle Films
Year Released:  1977        Running Time:  89 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Manmade, Medical, Transportation, and Virus
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  The maiden flight of America's first supersonic transport is complicated by sabotage and a deadly flu virus that's sweeping among the TV-star passengers.
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Starflight One (The Plane that Couldn't Land) (1983)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jerry Jameson
Writer(s):   Robert M. Young Peter R. Brooke
Studio:  Orgolini-Nelson Productions, Orion Television
Year Released:  1983        Running Time:  115 min
Genre:  Sci-Fi and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  On its maiden flight, a "hypersonic" jet malfunctions and heads into space. Without heat shields, how can it come back to Earth? Oh, and the oxygen's running out, too.
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Sully (2016)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Clint Eastwood
Writer(s):   Todd Komarnicki Chesley Sullenberger Jeffrey Zaslow
Studio:  Flashlight Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Malpaso Productions
Year Released:  2016        Running Time:  96 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  74/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  85%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of US Airways Flight #1549, which suffered a bird strike 2 minutes after taking off from La Guardia Airport, and the controversial but heroic efforts of the captain to land the plane safely on the Hudson River.
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Survive! (Supervivientes de los Andes) (1976)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   René Cardona
Writer(s):   Charles Blair Jr. René Cardona Jr.
Studio:  Avant Films S.A., Corporación Nacional Cinematográfica (CONACINE), Productora Filmica Real
Year Released:  1976        Running Time:  85 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  -%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1972 crash in the Andes of the Uruguayan rugby team's plane. It would be 72 days before the world learned that not all had died, and how the survivors stayed alive.
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Zero Hour! (1957)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Hall Bartlett
Writer(s):   Arthur Hailey Hall Bartlett John C. Champion
Studio:  Bartlett-Champion Productions, Carmel Productions, Delta Enterprises Inc.
Year Released:  1957        Running Time:  81 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Air travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  When food poisoning strikes both pilots of an airliner, a battle-scarred passenger must take over the controls. If this sounds familar, that's because it is.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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