On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie. By John H. Dorr On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what ...

What begins as a minor incident quickly escalates into a raging inferno, trapping hundreds of people on the upper floors of the building. As the flames spread and the situation grows increasingly dire ...

"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 ...

But five decades later, this film isn’t readily available to stream or rent online, which means audiences have either forgotten about it or they never knew it existed in the first place. Rather than ...

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn't get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey's best-seller. Burt ...

Movie technology is the star of this awesome Irwin Allen production, a formula disaster picture made into an event by the sheer size of its inflating production values. More ordeal than entertainment, ...

In the 1970s, disaster movies were the superhero cinema of their day. In other words, these were the films that brought movie ...