Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Ken Finkleman
Writer(s):   Ken Finkleman
Studio:  Paramount Pictures
Year Released:  1982        Running Time:  85 min
Genre:  Comedy and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Manmade, Runaway technology, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  42%
Plot Snapshot:  Ted Striker must save the day again when a computer malfunction locks his space shuttle on a course into the sun
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Aniara (1960)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Arne Arnbom
Writer(s):   Erik Lindegren Harry Martinson
Studio:  Sveriges Radio
Year Released:  1960        Running Time:  120 min
Genre:  Musical and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Asteroid/meteor, Planetary, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
IMDb: --    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A refugee spaceship bound from Earth to Mars is knocked off course by an asteroid
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Aniara (2018)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Pella Kagerman Hugo Lilja
Writer(s):   Harry Martinson Pella Kagerman Hugo Lilja
Studio:  Meta Film Stockholm
Year Released:  2018        Running Time:  106 min
Genre:  Drama and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Asteroid/meteor, Planetary, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  61/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  69%
Plot Snapshot:  Remake of the 1960 TV movie. A refugee spaceship traveling from Earth to Mars is knocked off course by an asteroid, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.
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Apollo 13 (1995)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Ron Howard
Writer(s):   Jim Lovell Jeffrey Kluger William Broyles Jr. Al Reinert
Studio:  Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
Year Released:  1995        Running Time:  140 min
Genre:  Adventure, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Manmade, Space travel, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  77/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  95%
Plot Snapshot:  Story of the ill-fated 1970 space mission, in which an explosion early into the mission makes survival uncertain
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Links to Buy/Rent: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:Exploding Sun (2013)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Michael Robison
Writer(s):   Jeff Schechter
Studio:  Muse Entertainment Enterprises
Year Released:  2013        Running Time:  174 min
Genre:  Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Planetary, Space travel, Storm, and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Runaway brand-new lunar passenger shuttle is headed straight for the sun
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Links to Buy/Rent:Gravity (2013)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Alfonso Cuarón
Writer(s):   Jonás Cuarón Alfonso Cuarón
Studio:  Warner Bros., Esperanto Filmoj, Heyday Films
Year Released:  2013        Running Time:  91 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Space travel and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  96/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  96%
Plot Snapshot:  An accident leaves two astronauts in space. Inspired by Marooned (1969).
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Links to Buy/Rent: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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