Disaster

DISASTER

The heyday of the disaster film was the 70s, the decade in which the sub-genre of action movies reached its zenith (Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno). These films formed a second wave of disaster films from the 30s (San Francisco, The Rains Came). A revival of disaster films surfaced in the mid 90s (Independence Day, Titanic, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow (2004)), all benefiting from the arrival of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI).