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List of the disaster movies of all time. Not that all of these were called disaster films because they ended up being disaster films. But, all of these were either natural disaster movies or man made disaster based movies. The best disaster movie is still 'The Abyss' according to some critics. If you don't agree with this list, make your list of disaster movies of all time. Source: Information Please Database

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1989
    James Cameron
    Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction
    Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kidd Brewer Jr., Ed Harris, George Robert Kirk, Chris Elliott, Todd Graff, Kimberly Scott, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Adam Nelson, J.C. Quinn, Jimmie Ray Weeks, John Bedford Lloyd More
  2. 2
    George Seaton
    Thriller, Disaster, Action, Action/Adventure, Airplanes and airports
    Burt Lancaster, Helen Hayes, Barbara Hale, Jacqueline Bisset, Maureen Stapleton, Dean Martin, Gary Collins, Jean Seberg, Van Heflin, Barry Nelson, Dana Wynter, George Kennedy More
  3. 3
    1974
    Mark Robson
    Disaster, Action, Action/Adventure, Doomsday film, Natural disaster
    Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Richard Roundtree, Victoria Principal, Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Marjoe Gortner, Lloyd Nolan, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. More
  4. 4
    1975
    Robert Wise
    Drama, Period piece, Thriller, Disaster, Action/Adventure, Suspense
    William Atherton, Burgess Meredith, George C. Scott, Gig Young, Charles Durning, Peter Donat, Anne Bancroft, Roy Thinnes More
  5. 5
    1958
    Roy Ward Baker
    Drama, Disaster, Action, Action/Adventure, Epic, Film adaptation
    Ronald Allen, Harriette Johns, John Merivale, David McCallum, Robert Ayres, Sean Connery, John Cairney, Richard Leech, James Dyrenforth, Jane Downs, George Rose, Michael Goodliffe, Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Bernard Fox, Kenneth Griffith, Laurence Naismith, Jill Dixon, Anthony Bushell, Tucker McGuire, Frank Lawton More
  6. 6
    1995
    Wolfgang Petersen
    Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Action
    Malick Bowens, Daniel Chodos, Bruce Jarchow, Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Benito Martinez, Donald Sutherland, Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Patrick Dempsey, Zakes Mokae, Susan Lee Hoffman, Leland Hayward III, Dale Dye More
  7. 7
    1972
    Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen
    Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure
    Leslie Nielsen, Dave Sharpe, Gene Hackman, Red Buttons, Pamela Sue Martin, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Ernest Borgnine, Carol Lynley, Arthur O'Connell, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Eric Shea More
  8. 8
    1985
    Andrei Konchalovsky
    Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Crime Fiction
    Hank Worden, Dennis Franz, Kenneth McMillan, Edward Bunker, T. K. Carter, Stacey Pickren, John P. Ryan, Jon Voight, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner, Eric Roberts More
  9. 9
    1936
    Woody Van Dyke
    Drama, Black-and-white, Disaster, Romance Film, Natural disaster
    Shirley Ross, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Harold Huber, Bert Roach, Jeanette MacDonald, Ted Healy, Charles Judels, Warren Hymer, Jessie Ralph, Edgar Kennedy, Jack Holt More
  10. 10
    1978
    Irwin Allen
    Disaster, Action/Adventure, Horror, Natural horror films
    Ben Johnson, Michael Caine, Patty Duke, Lee Grant, Bradford Dillman, José Ferrer, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Slim Pickens, John Furlong, Christian Juttner More
  11. 11
    1997
    James Cameron
    Drama, Costume drama, Period piece, Disaster, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Historical fiction, Romantic drama, Tragedy More
    Gloria Stuart, James Cameron, Kate Winslet, Suzy Amis, Eric Braeden, Jason Barry, Bill Paxton, Victor Garber, Ewan Stewart, Jonathan Hyde, Kathy Bates, Nicholas Cascone, Bernard Hill, Lewis Abernathy, Billy Zane, Bernard Fox, Jonathan Phillips, Leonardo DiCaprio, Frances Fisher, David Warner, Danny Nucci, Ioan Gruffudd More
  12. 12
    1974
    Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
    Disaster, Action, Action/Adventure, Doomsday film
    Gregory Sierra, William Holden, O. J. Simpson, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Felton Perry, Dabney Coleman, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner, Scott Newman, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Robert Vaughn, Susan Blakely, Sheila Allen, Jack Collins, Susan Flannery, Norman Burton More
  13. 13
    1996
    Jan de Bont
    Disaster, Action/Adventure
    Alexa Vega, Gregory Sporleder, Sean Whalen, Todd Field, Bill Paxton, Richard Lineback, Scott Thomson, Cary Elwes, Lois Smith, Wendle Josepher, Jeremy Davies, Jami Gertz, Joey Slotnick, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Zach Grenier, Alan Ruck, Helen Hunt More
  14. 14
    2004
    Roland Emmerich
    Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Science Fiction, Action, Action/Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Doomsday film, Natural disaster More
    Kenneth Welsh, Robin Wilcock, Lauren Sánchez, Robert Holguin, Carl Alacchi, Sela Ward, Arjay Smith, Adrian Lester, Sylvain Landry, Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah , Sasha Roiz, Christopher Britton, Nassim Sharara , Glenn Plummer, Kenneth Moskow, Austin Nichols, Richard McMillan, Emmy Rossum, Tim Hamaguchi, Jason Blicker, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terry Simpson, Perry King, Nestor Serrano, Rick Hoffman, Jay O. Sanders, Tamlyn Tomita, Dennis Quaid, Ian Holm, Dash Mihok, José Ramón Rosario, Gordon Masten More
  15. 15
    2005
    Steven Spielberg
    Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror, Doomsday film More
    Tim Robbins, Amy Ryan, Rick Gonzalez, Ann Robinson, Miranda Otto, Yul Vazquez, Lisa Ann Walter, Gene Barry, David Alan Basche, Columbus Short, Ricky Luna, Lenny Venito, Justin Chatwin, Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning More
  16. 16
    2006
    Oliver Stone
    Drama, Disaster, Action/Adventure, War, Tragedy
    Nicholas Turturro, Michael Shannon, Armando Riesco, Stephen Dorff, Ned Eisenberg, Gary Stretch, Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jay Hernandez, Nick Damici, Brad William Henke, William Mapother, Nicolas Cage, Frank Whaley, Maria Bello, Danny Nucci, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Morgan Flynn, Anthony Piccininni, Jude Ciccolella, Connor Paolo, Donna Murphy, Alex Trebek, Alexa Gerasimovich More

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