From shipwrecks and skyscraper infernos to pandemics and planet killers, disaster movies pack big stakes with human stories ...

From man-made catastrophes to cosmic threats, discover the 6 most intense and heart-stopping disaster movie masterpieces.

The fall of 1974 was a grand time for lovers of enormous movie spectacles featuring all-star casts and disasters — either natural or man-made. A half-century ago today, “Airport 1975” starring ...

Disaster movies continue to present day — “Twisters,” anyone? — but the 1970s generated a disaster movie trend in the same way that film studios from that decade also jumped on a kung fu bandwagon. If ...

"Fire, flood or any other act of God." So, anyway, it says on the insurance policy. But the crises in 1970s disaster movies were almost always caused by Man. Or if not directly caused, then aided and ...

Old Hollywood might’ve died around the end of the 1960s, but by no means did the idea of a movie star die with it. Movies got exciting in a new way around the end of the 1960s and start of the 1970s, ...

Even though Grand Island Little Theatre’s new show involves disaster, nothing awful looms ahead. Instead, the voyage seems bound for laughs. “Disaster!” which opens Wednesday night, spoofs the ...