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The Best PG Disaster Movies
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Here is a list of PG disaster movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best PG disaster movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG Disaster movie of all time is. If you think the top PG disaster movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG Disaster films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific PG Disaster film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
List contains movies like Airplane! and The Omega Man.
If you're trying to find out "What are the best PG disaster movies?" and "What are the most famous PG disaster movies?" then this list is the perfect resource for you.
Use this list if you're looking for some new disaster movies that are rated PG and thus family friendly and safe to watch with your kids. Between Netflix, Hulu and other services there are thousands of great disaster movies rated PG, so get out there and start watching.
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James Cameron and Robert Wise have both directed a PG Disaster film, as have other really creative and talented directors.
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1Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash- Released: 1971
- Directed by: Boris Sagal
Led by a former TV newscaster (Anthony Zerbe), light-sensitive mutants stalk the last normal man (Charlton Heston) on Earth.- 2Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves
- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot with a ...more ![The Poseidon Adventure]()
3Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters- Released: 1972
- Directed by: Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen
En route from New York City to Greece on New Year's Eve, majestic passenger ship the S.S. Poseidon is overtaken by a tidal wave. With the captain (Leslie Nielsen) dead, surviving passengers, ...more![Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]()
4Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Chris Miller, Phil Lord
When hard times hit Swallow Falls, its townspeople can only afford to eat sardines. Flint Lockwood, a failed inventor, thinks he has the answer to the town's crisis. He builds a machine that converts ...more![The Towering Inferno]()
5Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden- Released: 1974
- Directed by: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Classic 1970s disaster movie about a fire that breaks out in a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the opening ceremony attended by a host of A-list guests. An overworked fire ...more![The China Syndrome]()
6Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas- Released: 1979
- Directed by: James Bridges
A news reporter (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are unintentional witnesses to a SCRAM incident, an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. The crew ...more![Airport 1975]()
7Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Jack Smight
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor (Karen Black) is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend ...more![Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]()
8Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Irwin Allen
Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon) is the creator of a revolutionary nuclear submarine. After testing its capabilities in the Arctic Ocean, Nelson and the commanding officer (Robert Sterling) surface ...more![Airplane II: The Sequel]()
9Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Ken Finkleman
Though haunted by combat memories, heroic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) agrees to return to the cockpit to man the controls of Mayflower One, America's first commercial spacecraft. But, as soon as ...more![The Concorde...Airport '79]()
10Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner- Released: 1979
- Directed by: David Lowell Rich
Journalist Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely) discovers that her married boyfriend, Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner), heads a company that is involved in illegal arms sales. To stop her from going public, ...more![Testament]()
11Jane Alexander, William Devane, Roxana Zal- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Lynne Littman
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more ...more![Airport '77]()
12Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, George Kennedy- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Jerry Jameson
The story about the mid-air hijack of a multi-millionaire's private 747 carrying a collection of priceless works of art. The terrified pilot is forced by the hijackers to fly low to avoid radar ...more![Volcano]()
13Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Mick Jackson
When a massive earthquake rocks the city of Los Angeles, Emergency Management department head Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) returns from his vacation to help with the city's response. After geologist ...more![Beyond the Poseidon Adventure]()
14Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Irwin Allen
Disaster movie sequel following two groups of adventurers as they race to salvage a doomed ship's treasure hours after it has been crippled by a tidal wave. When the gold-diggers enter the overturned ...more![The Hindenburg]()
15George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton- Released: 1975
- Directed by: Robert Wise
Nazi Germany's prized airship is threatened with sabotage, so Col. Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) is charged with its safety. As the massive zeppelin lifts off for a journey to the United States, ...more![Earthquake]()
16Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Mark Robson
When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, the various residents of the city cope with the chaos and destruction. Successful architect Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) argues with his demanding wife, ...more![The Swarm]()
17Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Irwin Allen
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster ...more![Rollercoaster]()
18George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms- Released: 1977
- Directed by: James Goldstone
An unnamed young extortionist (Timothy Bottoms) sets off a bomb on an amusement park roller coaster, causing multiple fatalities, then says that he will do the same to five other rides around the ...more![Orca]()
19Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Michael Anderson
Orca is a 1977 horror film directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, and Will Sampson. It is based on Arthur Herzog's novel of the ...more![Meteor]()
20Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Ronald Neame
In this disaster movie, Americans and Soviets must put aside their differences to save civilization from a huge meteor bearing down on the planet. Paul Bradley (Sean Connery) enlists the expertise of ...more![When Time Ran Out]()
21Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden- Released: 1980
- Directed by: James Goldstone
An oil driller (Paul Newman) leads a dash for high ground when time runs out on a resort island's dormant volcano.![Juggernaut]()
22Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Richard Lester
When a luxury cruise ship reaches the high seas, its owner (Ian Holm) receives a disturbing phone call from a man known only as Juggernaut (Freddie Jones) : Pay a steep ransom or he will explode the ...more![The Big Bus]()
23Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck- Released: 1976
- Directed by: James Frawley
Bad drivers (Joseph Bologna, John Beck) and disaster threaten oddball passengers of a huge atomic bus going from New York to Denver.![Gray Lady Down]()
24Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach- Released: 1978
- Directed by: David Greene
A Navy captain (David Carradine) uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.- Veteran filmmaker James Cameron delves into the inspiration for his film "Titanic" by traveling to the mammoth cruise liner's final resting spot. Accompanied by a team of historians and friend Bill ...more
