🏷 Discover The Best Environmental Disaster Movies & TV Shows Right Now

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Exploring the Dark Side of Humanity: Environmental Disaster in Cinema

From nuclear meltdowns to devastating hurricanes, environmental disasters have captivated audiences worldwide. The cinematic world has mirrored these catastrophes, offering thought-provoking films and TV shows that shed light on the consequences of human actions. Dive into this curated selection of movies and TV shows that explore the devastating impact of environmental disasters.

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Ed Asner

Pat Benatar

Johnny Carson

Dick Cavett

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

7.9 777 votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Plot: human vs nature, technology, civilization, social commentary, rural area, nature run amok, nature, environment, ...

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Ali Tabrizi

Sylvia Earle

Richard O'Barry

Paul de Gelder

Seaspiracy (2021)

7.8 462 votes

Genre: Crime, Documentary

Country: Faeroe Islands, Japan

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global conspiracy.

Plot: pollution, fishing, ecology, vegan, environmental destruction, political corruption, environmental change , fishing net, ...

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Bill Clinton

John Kerry

Barack Obama

Before the Flood (2016)

7.7 821 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A look at how climate change affects our environment and what society can do to prevent the demise of endangered species, ecosystems, and native communities across the planet.

Plot: society, climate change, natural disaster, global warming, green energy, environment, environmentalism, endangered species, ...

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William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy

DeForest Kelley

James Doohan

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

7.0 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.

Plot: spacecraft, plan, farewell, court case, teleportation, starship, uss enterprise-a, rura penthe, ...

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Kevin Costner

Dennis Hopper

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Tina Majorino

Waterworld (1995)

6.2 4.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

Plot: sailboat, human evolution, tattoo, ocean, mutant, pirate gang, pirate, melting ice caps, ...

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Gerard Butler

Alexandra Maria Lara

Jim Sturgess

Abbie Cornish

Geostorm (2017)

6.1 5.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), weather manipulation, end of the world, murder, space, conspiracy, disaster, apocalypse, ...

Time: future

Cast

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Nick Robinson

Ron Livingston

Maggie Siff

The 5th Wave (2016)

5.9 6.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

Plot: based on novel or book, dystopia, alien, alien invasion, human subjugation, environmental disaster, based on young adult novel

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Aaron Eckhart

Hilary Swank

Delroy Lindo

Stanley Tucci

The Core (2003)

5.8 2.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

Style: intense

Plot: magnetic field, saving the world, natural disaster, survival, disaster, golden gate bridge, scientist, crash landing, ...