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** Now has a standalone sequel, ''Film/{{Twisters}}'' (2024).
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* ''Film/WhenWorldsCollide'' (1951): A star called Bellus is expected to collide with Earth. A group of astronomers are tasked with constructing a ship that could save whatever remains of the human species.
* ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953'' (1953): The first film adaptation based on the famous novel by Creator/HGWells, Martians conduct a worldwide invasion against the Earth using heat rays and manta ray-shaped fighting machines.


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* ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' (1956): Aliens lay waste to Washington D.C. during a worldwide alien invasion. Features special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen.
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* ''Film/{{Challenger}}'' (1990): A dramatization of the events leading up to the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster, with particular emphasis on the personal lives of the astronauts and the safety issues regarding the shuttle's booster rockets that failed so catastrophically during its launch on January 28, 1986.
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* ''Deluge'' (1933): One of the {{Ur Example}}s, making this trope OlderThanTheyThink. Most of the film was thought to be [[MissingEpisode lost]], save for a scene of [[BigApplesauce New York]] getting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyDMKZie7M destroyed by earthquakes and tidal waves]]. In the late 1980s, however, a complete print dubbed in Italian was discovered in a film archive. One scene, showing the Statue of Liberty getting hit by a tidal wave, would be copied over seventy years later by ''Film/DeepImpact'' and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''.


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* ''Film/TheJohnstownFlood'': The UrExample. A fictionalized account of the RealLife Johnstown Flood aka Great Flood of 1889, in which a dam outside Johnstown, PA failed, killing 2200 people.
* ''Film/{{Deluge}}'' (1933): An early example. Most of the film was thought to be [[MissingEpisode lost]], save for a scene of [[BigApplesauce New York]] getting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyDMKZie7M destroyed by earthquakes and tidal waves]]. In the late 1980s, however, a complete print dubbed in Italian was discovered in a film archive. One scene, showing the Statue of Liberty getting hit by a tidal wave, would be copied over seventy years later by ''Film/DeepImpact'' and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''.
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* ''Film/{{Exit}}'' (2019): A terrorist releases a slowly rising toxic gas throughout downtown Seoul, which forces the citizens to head to the roofs. A rare comedic example.

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* ''Film/{{Exit}}'' ''Film/Exit2019'' (2019): A terrorist releases a slowly rising toxic gas throughout downtown Seoul, which forces the citizens to head to the roofs. A rare comedic example.
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* ''Film/{{Thirteen Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.

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* ''Film/{{Thirteen Minutes|2021}}'' ''[[Film/ThirteenMinutes2021 13 Minutes]]'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.
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* ''Film/{{13 Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.

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* ''Film/{{13 ''Film/{{Thirteen Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.
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* ''13 Minutes'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.

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* ''13 Minutes'' ''Film/{{13 Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.
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The genre became incredibly popular in TheSeventies, with Creator/IrwinAllen becoming (in)famous for making a number of these movies. Eventually, like all trends in Hollywood, it burned itself out, finally being killed when ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' tore into the genre. Modern special effects helped revive the disaster movie in TheNineties, until certain events made scenes of cataclysmic destruction rather insensitive. This aversion swiftly passed.

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The genre became incredibly popular in TheSeventies, with Creator/IrwinAllen becoming (in)famous for making a number of these movies. Eventually, like all trends in Hollywood, it burned itself out, finally being killed when ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' tore into the genre. Modern special effects helped revive the disaster movie in TheNineties, until certain events made scenes of cataclysmic destruction rather insensitive. This aversion swiftly passed.
passed, therefore making this trope a textbook case of CyclicNationalFascination.





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The genre became incredibly popular in TheSeventies, with Creator/IrwinAllen becoming (in)famous for making a number of these movies. Eventually, like all trends in Hollywood, it burned itself out, finally being killed when ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' tore into the genre. Modern special effects helped revive the disaster movie in TheNineties, until certain events made scenes of cataclysmic destruction rather insensitive. This aversion [[Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow swiftly]] [[Film/TwoThousandTwelve passed]].

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The genre became incredibly popular in TheSeventies, with Creator/IrwinAllen becoming (in)famous for making a number of these movies. Eventually, like all trends in Hollywood, it burned itself out, finally being killed when ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' tore into the genre. Modern special effects helped revive the disaster movie in TheNineties, until certain events made scenes of cataclysmic destruction rather insensitive. This aversion [[Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow swiftly]] [[Film/TwoThousandTwelve passed]].
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* ''Film/{{Thirteen Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.

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* ''Film/{{Thirteen Minutes|2021}}'' ''13 Minutes'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Music/TraceAdkins.
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* ''Film/ThirteenMinutes2021'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Creator/TraceAdkins.

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* ''Film/ThirteenMinutes2021'' ''Film/{{Thirteen Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Creator/TraceAdkins.Music/TraceAdkins.
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* ''Film/{{ThirteenMinutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Creator/TraceAdkins.

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* ''Film/{{ThirteenMinutes|2021}}'' ''Film/ThirteenMinutes2021'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Creator/TraceAdkins.
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* ''Film/{{13 Minutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Creator/TraceAdkins.

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* ''Film/{{13 Minutes|2021}}'' ''Film/{{ThirteenMinutes|2021}}'' (2021): Four families deal with their own personal issues (a married TV meteorologist and emergency management official raising their deaf daughter, a young adult daughter of a teen mom dealing with whether to keep her unplanned pregnancy, a closeted gay teen struggling to come out to his socially conservative parents, and a hotel employee trying to start a new life with her undocumented immigrant fiancée) as a monster tornado descends upon their small Oklahoma town. An independent film featuring Creator/AmySmart, Creator/AnneHeche, Creator/PeterFacinelli, Creator/PazVega and Creator/TraceAdkins.

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