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Disaster films based on actual events

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Sully
2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood
The Impossible
2012 film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
Everest
2015 film directed by Baltasar Kormákur
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002 film by Kathryn Bigelow
Deepwater Horizon
2016 film directed by Peter Berg
The Perfect Storm
2000 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Unstoppable
2010 film directed by Tony Scott
In the Heart of the Sea
2015 film directed by Ron Howard
Society of the Snow
2023 film directed by J. A. Bayona
Alive
1993 film directed by Frank Marshall
The 33
2015 film by Patricia Riggen
Salyut 7
2017 Russian historical drama film directed by Klim Shipenko
The Finest Hours
2016 film directed by Craig Gillespie
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
2016 film by Mario Van Peebles
Kursk
2018 film by Thomas Vinterberg
White Squall
1996 film by Ridley Scott
The Hindenburg
1975 American film directed by Robert Wise
Earthquake
2016 film by Sarik Andreasyan
Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 film directed by Danila Kozlovsky
Notre-Dame on Fire
2022 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
The Lost Bus
The Lost Bus is a 2025 American survival drama film directed by Paul Greengrass, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brad Ingelsby based on the 2021 book Paradise by Lizzie Johnson. It stars Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez and Ashlie Atkinson. It portrays a fictionalized version of the evacuation of schoolchildren during the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California by bus driver Kevin McKay and teacher Mary Ludwig.
Aftershock
2012 film directed by Nicolás López
Kaala Patthar
1979 film by Yash Chopra
The Captain
2019 Chinese film
Dasavathaaram
Dasavathaaram () is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language epic science fiction action film directed by K. S. Ravikumar, written by Kamal Haasan and produced by V. Ravichandran under Aascar Film Pvt. Ltd. It stars Kamal Haasan in 10 distinct roles with Asin (in her penultimate Tamil film appearance and played in a dual roles), alongside an ensemble cast of Jaya Prada, Mallika Sherawat, K. R. Vijaya, Rekha Harris, Nagesh, P. Vasu, Raghuram, Napoleon and M. S. Bhaskar. In the film, a biotechnology scientist named Govind is forced to steal a vial containing a deadly bioweapon from his corrupt boss, who int
Last flight to Abuja
2012 Nigerian film directed by Obi Emelonye
Unforgiven
2018 film directed by Sarik Andreasyan
125 Years Memory
2015 film by Mitsutoshi Tanaka
The Icebreaker
2016 film by Nikolay Khomeriki
Kedarnath
2018 film directed by Abhishek Kapoor
Dam 999
2011 film by Sohan Roy
Anything to Survive
1990 film by Zale Dalen
The Bravest
2019 Chinese film
Against the Sun
2014 film directed by Brian Falk
Hatter's Castle
1942 film by Lance Comfort
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain
2014 film
The One
2022 Russian film
Miracles Still Happen
1974 film by Giuseppe Maria Scotese
Vajont
2001 film by Renzo Martinelli
Breakthrough
1986 film directed by Dmitriy Svetozarov
Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006 British TV docudrama film directed by Sam Miller
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
1997 television film directed by Robert Markowitz
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991 film by Anthony Page
Three Minutes of Silence
Three Minutes of Silence () is a 2023 Russian coming-of-age disaster film written and directed by Boris Khlebnikov, created by the CTB Film Company with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, a free adaptation of Georgi Vladimov's novel Three Minutes of Silence. Starring Makar Khlebnikov and Oleg Savostyuk as student sailors, with Aleksandr Robak and Timofey Tribuntsev about a battered seiner called "Bullfinch" and the trials that befell the crew of a fishing trawler.
Mission Raniganj
2023 Indian Film
Tum Mile
2009 film by Kunal Deshmukh
Challenger
1990 film directed by Glenn Jordan
Na solnce, vdol' riadov kukuruzy
film directed by Sarik Andreasyan
Sky Team
2021 film directed by Vladimir Alenikov