From natural disasters to epidemics to monsters wreaking havoc, disaster movies have always fascinated audiences. We experience some of our biggest anxieties vicariously through the characters on ...

Disaster movies have been around for nearly as long as movies have (the arguable first was a 1901 four-minute-long short called Fire!—it’s about a fire), but the ‘70s was the first true ...

The 1970s was not just a prime decade for science fiction movies but an era in which those ... and radical politics. But the ‘70s introduced a whole new set of crises into the genre, in tandem ...

"Bullet Train Explosion," on Netflix Thursday, harkens back to the glory days of disaster movies with a speeding train and teamwork between passengers, conductors and railway crew.

(See how the ‘70s hits compare with the most profitable movies of all time.) Disaster films were popular in the 1970s, and three of them – “The Towering Inferno,” “The Poseidon Adventure ...

The show is a nostalgic -- and hilarious -- look at the disaster films and music of the '70s. If there was ever a show where you could play everything "over the top," this is it." "When 'Disaster ...

Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were on fire back in the '70s, especially with ... much a patriotic sci-fi action film. But hoo boy, it nails being a disaster-piece early, with the aliens arriving ...

From earthquakes to hurricanes, disaster cinema offers some of the purest spectacle to be found in a movie theater. This weekend, a force is blowing into cinemas that we haven’t seen in a long ...

A spoof of ’70s disaster movies, this disaster comedy imagines what would happen if both pilots were debilitated by food poisoning—and the only person who could save the plane from crashing ...