We make a selection of the 10 best films and series related to catastrophes most valued in history. And we also order them from worst to best according to IMDb and where to see them online. Which one do you prefer?
- the colossus in flames
- Hurricane over the island
- Survival Family
- San Francisco
- The impossible
- After the hurricane
- thirteen lives
- titanic
- lost
- Chernobyl
the colossus in flames
- Platform: AppleTV, RakutenTV, Google Play Store and Amazon Videos
- Duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes
- Year: 1974
- Director: John Guillermin
- IMDb Score: 7.0
Starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, OJ Simpson, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner. It started from a budget of $14.3 million and managed to collect at the box office more than $139 million. It is a feature film of catastrophes, action and drama produced by Irwin Allen and directed by the filmmaker John Guillermin. It was a co-production of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Did you know that it was the first film resulting from the merger of these two studios? The feature film is based on two novels: The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. In the awards and recognitions section, he obtained 8 nominations for the Oscar awards (including Best Film) and won in 3 categories: Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Song. Additionally, 2 awards BAFTA: Fred Astaire for best supporting actor and John Williams for best music, and 2 Golden Globes: Fred Astaire, again for best supporting actor and Susan Flannery as promising performer.
Hurricane over the island
- Platform: Amazon Prime Video and Filmin
- Duration: 1 hour and 50 minutes
- Year: 1938
- Director: john ford
- IMDb Score: 7.2
Starring Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine and Jerome Cowan. It started from a budget of 2 million dollars and managed to collect at the box office more than $3.2 million. Hurricane is a 1937 feature film set in the South Seas, directed by filmmaker john ford and produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions. It recounts the life of a Polynesian who is unjustly imprisoned. The climax of the film features a special effects hurricane. James Norman Hall, Jon Hall’s uncle, co-wrote the novel of the same name on which The Hurricane is based.
Survival Family
- Platform: No streaming offers at this time
- Duration: 1 hour and 57 minutes
- Year: 2016
- Director: shinobu yaguchi
- IMDb Score: 7.2
A cast made up of Fumiyo Kohinata, Eri Fukatsu, Yuki Izumisawa, Wakana Aoi, Masashi Arifuku, Mickey Curtis, Yasuo Daichi, Akira Emoto, Norika Fujiwara, Miki Hayashida and Tokie Hidari. What would happen if one day we ran out of electricity? What’s more, what if this were permanent? A Tokyo family named Suzuki must survive when the entire city runs out of power and light and they have no choice but to survive elsewhere, and in another way. An adventure film with touches of comedy, which questions our very existence.
San Francisco
- Platform: Filmin and AppleTV
- Duration: 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Year: 1936
- Director: W. S. Van Dyke
- IMDb Score: 7.2
Starring a cast made up of Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy, Shirley Ross, Margaret Irving, Harold Huber, Edgar Kennedy, Al Shean, William Ricciardi, Kenneth Harlan, Russell Simpson, Roger Imhof, Charles Judels and bert roach. It is a musical based on the earthquake of 1906 that destabilized the city of San Francisco.
The impossible
- Platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Movistar+, RakutenTV, Google Play Store and Amazon Videos
- Duration: 1 hour and 47 minutes
- Year 2012
- Director: JA Bayonne
- IMDb Score: 7.5
Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin and Oaklee Pendergast. It started from a budget of 30 million dollars and managed to collect at the box office more than 180 million dollars. It is based on the true story of the tragic experience of the Spanish doctor Maria Belon and his family in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It was presented on September 9, 2012 at the International Film Festival of Toronto. In the awards and recognitions section, the film was nominated for 14 Goya Awardsof which he won 5 of them.
After the hurricane
It is a miniseries of 2022 based on real events that narrates the impact of the Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in a hospital in the area. As the water level rose, the electricity supply was lost and the heat skyrocketed. Workers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make decisions that will leave a lasting impression on them.
thirteen lives
- Platform: Amazon Prime Video
- Duration: 2 hours and 27 minutes
- Year: 2022
- Director: Ron Howard
- IMDb Score: 7.8
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Tom Batemann. It is an American survival biographical film directed by filmmaker Ron Howard and written by william nicholson. The feature film narrates the events of the rescue from the cave Tham Luang in 2018, in which a Thai youth soccer team and their coach were trapped in a cave for 18 agonizing days.
titanic
- Platform: Disney+, Movistar+, Amazon Videos, RakutenTV, Google Play Store and Microsoft Store
- Duration: 3 hours and 14 minutes
- Year: 1997
- Director: James Cameron
- IMDb Score: 7.9
starring L.Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Gloria Stuart, Bill Paxton, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, David Warner, Bernard Fox, Danny Nucci and Ioan Gruffudd. The film that had a millionaire budget of 200 million dollarsmanaged to raise more than 1843 million dollars. If we add the more than 342 million dollars collected in its re-release in 2012, the feature film has exceeded 2.187 billion dollars. titanic garnered 91 awards and 49 nominations in total. We highlight its 11 Oscar awards achieved (out of 14 nominations), 10 award nominations BAFTA or his 4 prizes Golden Globe achieved from 8 nominations.
lost
American television series originally aired on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) between 2004 and 2010, until completing a total of 6 seasons and 121 episodes. The plot of the series revolves around the lives of the surviving passengers of the flight 815 of Oceanic Airlines Sydney-Los Angeles on an apparently deserted island, where very strange things happen.
Chernobyl
- Platform: HBO Max
- Duration: 1 hour and 5 minutes per episode
- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 5
- Year: 2019
- Directed by: Craig Mazin (Creator) and Johan Renck
- IMDb Score: 9.4
Starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson. It is a historical drama television miniseries created by craig mazin and directed by Johan Renck. The series revolves around the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl April 1986 and the unprecedented cleanup efforts that followed. Chernobyl It is a co-production between the channels HBO of the United States and Sky from United Kingdom. It was released in USA on May 6, 2019 and in the UK on May 7, 2019. The 5-episode miniseries aired on June 3, 2019. In the awards and recognition section, it received 19 nominations in the Primetime Emmy Awards and won in 3 categories: Best Miniseries, Best Direction and best screenplay. Actors Harris, Skarsgård and Watson received nominations for their performance.
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