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Quiet Killer
Quiet Killer (1992)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Kate Jackson, Al Waxman, Jeffrey Nordling, Chip Zien, Barbara Williams, David Hewlett

When Sara Dobbs (Robertson), the teenage daughter of a wealthy New York City family returns home while feeling sick, nobody suspects a thing. At home, her health deteriorates quickly, resulting in a painful death on the streets before her Manhattan home. In the hospital, it does not take long before Dr. Nora Hart (Jackson) concludes that Sara has died of the Black Death, which has not occurred in centuries. Realizing that the disease is extremely contagious, she tries to push the authorities to warn the New York citizens, but the Mayor is reluctant to cause a widespread panic. Meanwhile, more citizens who have been in direct contact with Sara start to perish. Nora and her new colleague Dr. Jake Prescott (Nordling)—whom she becomes romantically involved with—start a race against the clock to locate and treat all the people who might be infected, while trying to prevent the city from panicking. In the end, Nora is successful in finding everyone who is infected, and treats most of them successfully. Within a week, a pandemic is ended after 22 deaths.
Tornado!
Tornado! (1996)
, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Bruce Campbell, Shannon Sturges, Ernie Hudson, L. Q. Jones, Devon Sawa, Juli Erickson

Storm chaser Jake Thorne (Bruce Campbell), whose friend and former graduate school advisor. Dr. Joe Branson (Ernie Hudson), has developed a machine that may be able to provide earlier tornado warnings. Samantha Callen (Shannon Sturges) is a government auditor who must determine whether Dr. Branson's project warrants more funding. Jake must try to convince Samantha that the machine is worthwhile. During the process, Jake and Samantha become romantically attracted to each other, but powerful tornadoes threaten the lives of all the major characters.
Titanic (1996 miniseries)
Titanic (1996 miniseries) (1996)
, 2h53
Directed by Robert Lieberman
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees

Titanic follows three main story threads. Isabella Paradine is traveling on the Titanic to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England. On the Titanic, she meets Wynn Park, her former lover. She falls in love with him again, and after a brief affair, she sends her husband a wireless saying they cannot be together anymore (despite their daughter). When the ship starts sinking, Isabella reluctantly leaves Wynn when he forces her to board a lifeboat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses a long kept secret that her daughter Claire is actually Wynn's. Later on board the RMS Carpathia she is grief-stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of hypothermia, but luckily, when the Carpathia reaches New York she is reunited with her family who are blissfully unaware of Isabella's tryst because the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking.
Stonehenge Apocalypse
Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)
, 1h30
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Misha Collins, Torri Higginson, Peter Wingfield, Hill Harper, Colin Lawrence, Michael Kopsa

An ancient prophecy comes to pass when archeologists unearth an Egyptian chamber in Maine, sparking a devastating electromagnetic pulse that originates at Stonehenge and sends destructive shockwaves around the globe. When the Aztec pyramids crumble and the stones take on a life of their own, a renegade radio host, a team of scientists, and a team of British commandos race to prevent the same force responsible for creating life on Earth from cleansing the planet in order to herald the dawn of a new age
Goliath Awaits
Goliath Awaits (1981)

Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Mark Harmon, Kirk Cameron, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine, Alex Cord

In 1939, the luxury British ocean liner Goliath, carrying 1,860 passengers, is hit by a torpedo fired by a German U-boat and sinks while on a trans-Atlantic crossing to the United States three days after the outbreak of World War II.
The Crowded Sky
The Crowded Sky (1960)
, 1h45
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist II, John Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn

A US Navy Lockheed TV-2 jet piloted by Captain Dale Heath (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), with an enlisted man (Troy Donahue) as a passenger, runs into trouble as soon as it is in the air. Both Heath's radio and his navigation system become disabled, with no way to correctly determine their altitude. At the same time, a Douglas DC-7 airliner piloted by veteran Dick Barnett (Dana Andrews), is carrying a full load of passengers, each with their own worries and problems to deal with.
Ground Control
Ground Control (1998)
, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce McGill, Kristy Swanson, Robert Sean Leonard, Kelly McGillis, Margaret Cho

Chicago air traffic controller Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland) was cleared of liability for an ill-fated flight under his authority, such that resulted in the loss of all 174 souls aboard. He subsequently left the job and went on to design air control software, until five years later when T.C. Bryant (Bruce McGill), his ex-colleague who had since transferred to Phoenix, pleads for help on New Year's Eve due to a critical staff shortage and with torrential weather predicted. His return to the control room is met with warmth and disdain, particularly when he experiences flashbacks of the historic incident. The atmosphere rapidly becomes much more serious as the storm approaches and with the control tower suffering power cuts, the team is forced into manually directing busy air traffic through severe turbulence.
Ice
Ice (1998)
, 1h33
Directed by Jean de Segonzac
Origin USA
Genres Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Grant Show, Udo Kier, Eva LaRue, Flex Alexander, Audie England, Michael Riley

A small meteor hits the sun, causing disastrous consequences for the Earth. Los Angeles is, just as the rest of the world, covered with a layer of ice and snow. The government has collapsed and everyone is on their own. Chaos and crime prevails. Together with scientist Dr. Kistler and a small group of survivors, L.A. cop Robert Drake leaves in the direction of Long Beach Harbor to meet with a government ship which will take them to Guam, where it is warmer.
Britannic
Britannic (2000)
, 1h33
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Edward Atterton, Amanda Ryan, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Daniels, John Rhys-Davies, Bruce Payne

In Southampton in 1916, HMHS Britannic, a sister ship of RMS Titanic, has been refitted as a hospital ship for soldiers fighting in the Gallipoli Campaign. Among the nurses who are to serve aboard her is Lady Lewis (Jacqueline Bisset), who is being delivered to Greece via Naples, where her husband has become Ambassador for Great Britain. Traveling with her is Vera Campbell (Amanda Ryan), an operative of British Intelligence posing as Lady Lewis' governess. Campbell is unnerved by the voyage, having survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic four years previously, losing her husband as well.
Tidal Wave: No Escape
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)

Directed by George Miller, George Trumbull Miller
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Corbin Bernsen, Julianne Phillips, Harve Presnell, Gregg Henry, Larry Brandenburg, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

A navy scientist and an oceanographer try to stop the person behind a series of man-made tidal waves.
Apocalypse Pompeii
Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)

Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Adrian Paul, John Rhys-Davies, Dylan Vox

When a Former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mount Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of Pompeii.
Storm
Storm (1999)
, 1h45
Directed by Vincent Spano
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Luke Perry, Martin Sheen, Alexandra Powers, Marc McClure

The film begins on August 23, 1992 with a team of storm trackers tracking Hurricane Andrew over the Atlantic Ocean. While flying a plane through the hurricane, their generator malfunctions, and they lose contact with it. While trying to fix this problem, a lightning bolt hits the plane causing all systems to fail, and the plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Shortly after this, a group of storm trackers realize that the category 5 hurricane is heading straight for their weather station in Miami, and are forced to evacuate.
Atomic Train
Atomic Train (1999)
, 2h48
Directed by David Jackson, Dick Lowry
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Rail transport films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn, Mena Suvari, Erik King

A waste disposal company has a Russian nuclear bomb to transport, and an employee decides to save money by concealing it on a freight train. This train is also loaded with hazardous and flammable chemicals, including metallic sodium, which spontaneously ignites on contact with water. The train suffers a brake failure and becomes a runaway heading for Denver. John Seger, a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator, boards the train and with the assistance of the railwaymen tries various ways to stop the train. Several ideas are tried, such as coupling a following train to the caboose (the coupling mechanism on the caboose breaks, which also results in the death of one of the train's crew members), a derailing attempt (after it is revealed the catastrophe the chemicals would cause if ignited) in which a helicopter narrowly avoids being hit, and finally, an attempt at manually activating the brakes (via hitting a part of the engine mechanism with a wrench). The final attempt works successfully, but is short-lived. The following rescue train, unaware of the freight's slowing, speeds forward and crushes the caboose (killing an injured crew member in the process). The force disengages the brakes, this time for good, causing the train to speed up once again. Meanwhile, Denver residents are struggling to collect their families and then leave town, despite rioters, looters, and gridlock. Realizing that there is no way to stop it, John and the engineer (who was initially reluctant) abandon the train by jumping off before it can speed up too much.