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The Greatest Disaster Movies of All Time

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These are the most entertaining, the most fun, the greatest disaster movies ever made, ranked by movie experts and film fans alike. There is a long history of these kinds of movies in cinema - never to be taken too seriously, always slightly histrionic - for moviegoers who love to watch cities leveled and populations run screaming for their lives. This list of floods, fires, earthquakes and alien attacks is built from both your votes and those lists that Rankers have contributed. If you are a die-hard fan of disaster movies, if you know your F-5 Tornados from your 10.5 Earthquakes, make your own ranking of these to really impact the list order! And if you see a film that should be amongst these greatest disaster movies of all time, please add it!

Be sure to check out Ranker's list of All Disaster Films.
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  1. 1
    Up 198
    Down 59
    1996
  2. 2
    Up 144
    Down 65
    1998
  3. 3
    Up 165
    Down 66
    2004
  4. 4
    Up 124
    Down 49
    1996
  5. 5
    Up 86
    Down 42
    1972
  6. 6
    Up 124
    Down 67
    2005
  7. 7
    Up 107
    Down 52
    1998
  8. 8
    Up 128
    Down 77
    1997
  9. 9
    Up 119
    Down 91
    2008
  10. 10
    Up 122
    Down 118
    2009
  11. 11
    Up 80
    Down 43
    1997
  12. 12
    Up 59
    Down 51
    1993
  13. 13
    Up 66
    Down 32
    1974
  14. 14
    Up 67
    Down 49
    2000
  15. 15
    Up 50
    Down 40
    1971
  16. 16
    Up 49
    Down 33
    1974
  17. 17
    Up 44
    Down 42
    1971
  18. 18
    Up 56
    Down 46
    1997
  19. 19
    Up 44
    Down 36
    1970
  20. 20
    Up 40
    Down 38
    1979
  21. 21
    Up 30
    Down 24
    2009
    added by: arpan_mukherjee93
  22. 22
    Up 51
    Down 45
    2006
  23. 23
    Up 67
    Down 69
    1996
  24. 24
    Up 11
    Down 9
    1983
    added by: KatieDonovan
    The original film about nuclear holocaust the Greenie Wienies ripped off and turned into a film about global warming.
  25. 25
    Up 33
    Down 39
    1996
  26. 26
    Up 22
    Down 11
    1995
    added by: MarcoSalih
  27. 27
    Up 1
    Down 4

    Unstoppable

    2010
  28. 28
    Up 48
    Down 38
    2003
  29. 29
    Up 30
    Down 39
    2005
  30. 30
    Up 20
    Down 38
    2009
  31. 31
    Up 23
    Down 39
    1977
  32. 32
    Up 19
    Down 40
    2004
  33. 33
    Up 35
    Down 37
    2008
  34. 34
    Up 30
    Down 38
    2009
  35. 35
    Up 20
    Down 42
    1998
  36. 36
    Up 31
    Down 47
    2008
  37. 37
    Up 9
    Down 17
    2005
  38. 38
    Up 20
    Down 31
    1975
  39. 39
    Up 27
    Down 30
    1974
  40. 40
    Up 12
    Down 22
    2001
  41. 41
    Up 17
    Down 28
    2006
  42. 42
    Up 9
    Down 40
    1985
  43. 43
    Up 13
    Down 40
    1978
  44. 44
    Up 12
    Down 40
    2005
  45. 45
    Up 8
    Down 45
    2009
  46. 46
    Up 6
    Down 42
    2006
  47. 47
    Up 7
    Down 31
    2008
    added by: TommyWimmer
  48. 48
    Up 7
    Down 40
    1996
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    1. BenIsStupid69
      The Greatest Disaster Movies of All Time at 12/04/2012 6:30 AM
      Wonderful Best Disaster Movies, my friend.
    2. Alvaro Furcron
      The Greatest Disaster Movies of All Time at 7/28/2012 9:30 PM
      Worthy Apocalypse Films, my friend.
    3. KirkSawyers
      The Greatest Disaster Movies of All Time at 3/05/2012 9:45 PM
      Wouldn't Godzilla be a disaster movie?

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