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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 183
    Down 55
    1996
  2. 2
    Up 138
    Down 61
    1998
  3. 3
    Up 156
    Down 62
    2004
  4. 4
    Up 82
    Down 40
    1972
  5. 5
    Up 114
    Down 47
    1996
  6. 6
    Up 116
    Down 65
    2005
  7. 7
    Up 101
    Down 50
    1998
  8. 8
    Up 122
    Down 75
    1997
  9. 9
    Up 116
    Down 87
    2008
  10. 10
    Up 119
    Down 114
    2009
  11. 11
    Up 56
    Down 49
    1993
  12. 12
    Up 73
    Down 41
    1997
  13. 13
    Up 61
    Down 32
    1974
  14. 14
    Up 63
    Down 47
    2000
  15. 15
    Up 49
    Down 38
    1971
  16. 16
    Up 47
    Down 32
    1974
  17. 17
    Up 43
    Down 40
    1971
  18. 18
    Up 43
    Down 34
    1970
  19. 19
    Up 53
    Down 45
    1997
  20. 20
    Up 38
    Down 37
    1979
  21. 21
    Up 27
    Down 21
    2009
    added by: arpan_mukherjee93
  22. 22
    Up 50
    Down 42
    2006
  23. 23
    Up 63
    Down 67
    1996
  24. 24
    Up 8
    Down 8
    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 0
    Down 0

    Unstoppable

    2010
  26. 26
    Up 32
    Down 36
    1996
  27. 27
    Up 47
    Down 35
    2003
  28. 28
    Up 18
    Down 9
    1995
    added by: MarcoSalih
  29. 29
    Up 30
    Down 36
    2005
  30. 30
    Up 21
    Down 37
    1977
  31. 31
    Up 18
    Down 37
    2009
  32. 32
    Up 34
    Down 34
    2008
  33. 33
    Up 17
    Down 39
    2004
  34. 34
    Up 27
    Down 36
    2009
  35. 35
    Up 19
    Down 40
    1998
  36. 36
    Up 30
    Down 44
    2008
  37. 37
    Up 8
    Down 15
    2005
  38. 38
    Up 20
    Down 28
    1975
  39. 39
    Up 25
    Down 28
    1974
  40. 40
    Up 14
    Down 27
    2006
  41. 41
    Up 13
    Down 38
    1978
  42. 42
    Up 8
    Down 40
    1985
  43. 43
    Up 11
    Down 40
    2005
  44. 44
    Up 7
    Down 44
    2009
  45. 45
    Up 6
    Down 41
    2006
  46. 46
    Up 7
    Down 28
    2008
    added by: TommyWimmer
  47. 47
    Up 7
    Down 39
    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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