Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   M. Night Shyamalan
Writer(s):   M. Night Shyamalan
Studio:  Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, UTV Motion Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment
Year Released:  2008        Running Time:  91 min
Genre:  Drama, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Medical and Plague
Ratings:
    Metascore:  34/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  18%
Plot Snapshot:  A mysterious plague begins in New York City and spreads quickly, leaving a science teacher, his wife, and a girl scrambling to avoid its effects
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Links to Buy/Rent:Hard Rain (1998)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Mikael Salomon
Writer(s):   Graham Yost
Studio:  BBC Television, H2L Media Group, Marubeni
Year Released:  1998        Running Time:  97 min
Genre:  Action, Crime, and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Flood/tsunami and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  36/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  30%
Plot Snapshot:  A massive flood is the backdrop for robbing an armored truck full of money
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Links to Buy/Rent:Heat Wave (City on Fire) (2009)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Rex Piano
Writer(s):   Jody Wheeler Paolo Mazzucato
Studio:  Mountain Rose Entertainment
Year Released:  2009        Running Time:  74 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Climate change and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  It's a young, beautiful scientist to the rescue when the temperature in Los Angeles keeps rising, and rising, and rising...
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer, Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good), and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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Heatwave! (1974)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jerry Jameson
Writer(s):   Peter Allan Fields Mark Weingart Herbert F. Solow
Studio:  Universal Television
Year Released:  1974        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Drama and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Climate change and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A husband and very pregnant wife leave Los Angeles and head to the mountains when a relentless heat wave hits. But things aren't any better up there, and they must fight to survive.
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Links to Buy/Rent:- Not available on Amazon
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Heimatland (Wonderland) (2015)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Lisa Blatter Gregor Frei Benny Jaberg Carmen Jaquier Jonas Meier Tobias Nölle Lionel Rupp Mike Scheiwiller Jan Gassmann Michael Krummenacher
Writer(s):   Lisa Blatter Gregor Frei Jan Gassmann Benny Jaberg Carmen Jaquier Michael Krummenacher Jonas Meier Tobias Nölle Lionel Rupp Mike Scheiwiller Michèle Wannaz
Studio:  2:1 Film, Contrast Film, Passanten Filmproduktion
Year Released:  2015        Running Time:  99 min
Genre:  Drama
Category of Disaster:  Planetary and Storm
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  An oncoming massive storm reveals Switzerland's political issues, as told by 10 directors.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   J. Stuart Blackton
Writer(s):   Hatcher Hughes Marian Constance Blackton
Studio:  Warner Bros.
Year Released:  1926        Running Time:  0 min
Genre:  Crime and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Bridge collapse, Flood/tsunami, Manmade, and Planetary
Ratings:
IMDb: --    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A love triangle leads to a dam explosion, the way it so often does
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Heroes (Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht) (2013)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Hansjörg Thurn
Writer(s):   Derek Meister Simon X. Rost
Studio:  Dreamtool Entertainment, RTL, Epo-Film Produktionsgesellschaft, Telepool
Year Released:  2013        Running Time:  143 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  CERN has used the world's largest particle accelerator to created a black hole
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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:Hillsborough (1996)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Charles McDougall
Writer(s):   Jimmy McGovern
Studio:  Granada Television
Year Released:  1996        Running Time:  100 min
Genre:  Drama and History
Category of Disaster:  Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 1989 disaster at the FA Cup semifinal soccer match in Sheffield between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, in which 96 people were trampled to death.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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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:Hours (2013)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Eric Heisserer
Writer(s):   Eric Heisserer
Studio:  The Safran Company, PalmStar Media, Hours Capital
Year Released:  2013        Running Time:  97 min
Genre:  Drama, History, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Flood/tsunami, Hurricane, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  55/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  60%
Plot Snapshot:  After Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, a man works to keep his newborn daughter alive in a ravaged hospital.
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Links to Buy/Rent:How I Live Now (2013)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Kevin Macdonald
Writer(s):   Meg Rosoff Jeremy Brock Penelope Skinner Tony Grisoni Jack Thorne
Studio:  BFI Film Fund, Cowboy Films, Film4
Year Released:  2013        Running Time:  101 min
Genre:  Drama, Romance, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, Nuclear, and War
Ratings:
    Metascore:  57/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  67%
Plot Snapshot:  A nuclear explosion in London affects an American teen who's been sent to live with her cousins in the English countryside. Triggers: incest, probable rape
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Links to Buy/Rent:How It Ends (2018)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   David M. Rosenthal
Writer(s):   Brooks McLaren
Studio:  Paul Schiff Productions, Sierra / Affinity
Year Released:  2018        Running Time:  113 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, Drama, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Earthquake, Manmade, Planetary, and Storm
Ratings:
    Metascore:  32/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  22%
Plot Snapshot:  With his father-in-law, a man searches for his missing pregnant fiancee after a mysterious apocalyptic event hits Earth.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Hurricane (1974)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jerry Jameson
Writer(s):   Jack Turley William C. Anderson
Studio:  Metromedia Producers Corporation (MPC), Montagne Productions
Year Released:  1974        Running Time:  74 min
Genre:  Drama
Category of Disaster:  Flood/tsunami, Hurricane, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  An all-star cast fights to survive a monster hurricane and resulting tidal wave. Uses actual footage from Hurricane Camille.
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Hurricane (1979)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Jan Troell
Writer(s):   James Norman Hall Charles Nordhoff Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Studio:  Dino De Laurentiis Company, Famous Films
Year Released:  1979        Running Time:  120 min
Genre:  Adventure and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Hurricane and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  38%
Plot Snapshot:  Remake of the 1937 John Ford film. A massive storm threatens forbidden lovers and their families on a tropical island.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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The Hurricane Heist (2018)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Rob Cohen
Writer(s):   Carlos Davis Jeff Dixon Anthony Fingleton Scott Windhauser
Studio:  Foresight Unlimited, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology
Year Released:  2018        Running Time:  102 min
Genre:  Action, Crime, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Hurricane and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  24/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  33%
Plot Snapshot:  Original title: Category 5. As a major hurricane bears down on a US Mint facility, thieves attempt a massive heist. Delayed from 2017, so you know it's going to be good. Or, you know, not.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members, Side character who sacrifices him/herself, Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good), and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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The Hurricane (1937)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   John Ford Stuart Heisler
Writer(s):   Dudley Nichols Oliver H.P. Garrett Charles Nordhoff James Norman Hall Ben Hecht W.P. Lipscomb
Studio:  The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Year Released:  1937        Running Time:  110 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, Drama, and Romance
Category of Disaster:  Hurricane and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A hurricane threatens to destroy the happiness of lovers finally reunited. Remade in 1979 by Dino De Laurentiis.
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I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Reed Morano
Writer(s):   Mike Makowsky
Studio:  Automatik Entertainment, Estuary Films, Exhibit
Year Released:  2018        Running Time:  93 min
Genre:  Drama and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  51/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  81%
Plot Snapshot:  A loner must deal with the arrival of another survivor of an apocalypse.
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Links to Buy/Rent:Ice Quake (2010)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Paul Ziller
Writer(s):   David Ray
Studio:  Cinetel Films, Quake Productions
Year Released:  2010        Running Time:  91 min
Genre:  Action, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Avalanche, Earthquake, Iceberg, and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  An earthquake in Alaska has opened up a massive crack in the Earth's crust, causing ice geysers(!), avalanches, and venting flammable methane into the area. I think we all know where this is going.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Ice Road, The (2021)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Jonathan Hensleigh
Writer(s):   Jonathan Hensleigh
Studio:  Code Entertainment, Envision Media Arts
Year Released:  2021        Running Time:  109 min
Genre:  Action and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Manmade, Mining, Planetary, and Storm
Ratings:
    Metascore:  43/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  46%
Plot Snapshot:  After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a big-rig ice road driver fights thawing ice and a massive storm in an impossible rescue mission
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Links to Buy/Rent:Ice Spiders (2007)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  R
Director(s):   Tibor Takács
Writer(s):   Eric Miller
Studio:  Sci Fi Pictures, Christopher Filmcapital, Regent Entertainment
Year Released:  2007        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Action, Horror, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Animals, Creatures, Manmade, and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Training for a team of Olympic skier candidates is complicated by the news that a mutant breed of giant killer spiders has escaped from a nearby lab. Of course.
TDA Checklist Items:  Animal in peril and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Ice Twisters (2009)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Steven R. Monroe
Writer(s):   Paul A. Birkett Andrew C. Erin
Studio:  Cinetel Films, Ice Twisters Productions, Insight Film Studios
Year Released:  2009        Running Time:  86 min
Genre:  Action and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Manmade, Planetary, Runaway technology, and Tornado
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A former-scientist-turned-science-fiction-writer (whew!) must save the world when a federal weather experiment goes horribly wrong. As they always seem to do.
TDA Checklist Items:  Evil corporate shill / greedy land developer, Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good), and Young scientist / old codger whom no one listens to
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Icetastrophe (2014)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Jonathan Winfrey
Writer(s):   David Sanderson
Studio:  Cinetel Films, Reel One Entertainment, Ice Cap Pictures Inc.
Year Released:  2014        Running Time:  86 min
Genre:  Action and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Asteroid/meteor and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Two halves of a meteorite cause opposite reactions when they hit--freezing AND tropical conditions. Reuniting the halves will restore peace in the galaxy. Or something.
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Impact Earth (Zone d'impact: terre) (2015)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Rex Piano
Writer(s):   E.M. McCoy Jonathan Stathakis Cory Tynan
Studio:  AltaVista Entertainment Group, Mississippi Gulf Coast Studios
Year Released:  2015        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Action and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Asteroid/meteor and Planetary
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  No one will listed to a discredited scientist who's telling the world that a killer asteroid is on the way
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members, 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:- Not available on Amazon
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