Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Roy Ward Baker
Writer(s):   W.E. Fairchild Kenneth Woollard
Studio:  Jay Lewis Productions
Year Released:  1950        Running Time:  102 min
Genre:  Drama and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Boat/ship and Transportation
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A forgotten mine causes a British submarine to sink in the Channel. Can the captain get everyone out before they run out of oxygen?
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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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Mr. Bug Goes to Town (Bugville) (1941)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Dave Fleischer Shamus Culhane
Writer(s):   Dan Gordon Dave Fleischer Tedd Pierce Izzy Sparber Carl Meyer Graham Place Bob Wickersham Bill Turner Cal Howard
Studio:  Fleischer Studios
Year Released:  1941        Running Time:  78 min
Genre:  Animation, Comedy, Drama, and Musical
Category of Disaster:  Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  67%
Plot Snapshot:  A community of insects is forced to relocate when humans start encroaching on their land. Yes, this counts as a disaster movie.
TDA Checklist Items:  Animal in peril
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My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Dash Shaw
Writer(s):   Dash Shaw
Studio:  Shout! Factory
Year Released:  2016        Running Time:  75 min
Genre:  Action, Animation, Comedy, Drama, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Earthquake and Flood/tsunami
Ratings:
    Metascore:  72/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  85%
Plot Snapshot:  An earthquake puts a California high school on course to sink into the Pacific.
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Links to Buy/Rent:Only the Brave (Granite Mountain Hotshots) (2017)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Joseph Kosinski
Writer(s):   Ken Nolan Eric Warren Singer
Studio:  Black Label Media, Conde Nast Entertainment, Di Bonaventura Pictures
Year Released:  2017        Running Time:  134 min
Genre:  Action, Drama, and History
Category of Disaster:  Fire and Manmade
Ratings:
    Metascore:  73/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  91%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 2013 wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona, and its human and environmental costs
TDA Checklist Items:  Side character who sacrifices him/herself and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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