Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Disaster movies tend to follow a standard format. They typically start with some crisis, maybe a deadly inferno, a rogue asteroid or even an alien invasion.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we’re ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

The disaster genre is an easy one to define, since disaster movies are all about showcasing disasters, be they natural or caused by humans in some way… or, for a third option, the way humans react to ...