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This list of
disaster films represents over half a century of films within the
genre . Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing
disaster as a central plot feature. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster presented.
Man-made disasters
See also:
List of films about nuclear issues
Natural disasters
End of days
Airplanes
The atomic age
Epidemics and pandemics
Shipwrecks
See also
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