Un couple et leurs trois garçons fêtent Noël sur le bord de la plage en Thaïlande. Des vacances de rêve qui se transforment en cauchemar lorsqu'un tsunami déferle sur leur hôtel, emportant tout sur son passage. Séparés de leurs proches, la mère et le fils aîné tentent de rester ensemble et d'éviter le pire. Lorsque l'eau se retire enfin des terres, elle dévoile un lieu complètement ravagé. Retrouver les survivants sera un véritable casse-tête et une course contre la montre. Pendant que sa mère soigne ses nombreuses blessures, l'aîné part à la recherche du reste de sa famille.
Leo Biderman, quatorze ans, s'inscrit au club d'astronomie de son lycée. Il prend une photo du ciel étoilé à travers son téléscope et découvre une comète qui se dirige vers la Terre. Prévenu, le Président des États-Unis fait appel à un ancien astronaute, Spurgeon Tanner, qui est chargé de diriger une mission internationale à bord du vaisseau expérimental "Messiah". Ils doivent se poser sur la comète et tenter, par des charges nucléaires, de la dévier de sa trajectoire. Sur Terre, le cataclysme imminent suscite les réactions les plus extrêmes.
Ville balnéaire de Hauendae. Printemps 2008. Malgré des signes annonciateurs préoccupants, les autorités n'imaginent pas évacuer les côtes de ce haut lieu touristique, pourtant menacé par des séismes sous-marins pouvant donner lieu à un raz-de-marée. Soudain de plus en plus violentes, les alertes ne laissent plus place au doute : un tsunami d'une ampleur inégalée menace tout le pays...
Alors que les passagers du Poséidon, yacht luxueux en croisière vers l'Israël, s'apprêtent à fêter le réveillon, une catastrophe se prépare : un raz-de-marée a soulevé un mur d'eau de plusieurs dizaines de mètres de hauteur. Instantanément retourné, le paquebot commence à sombrer. Une course contre la montre s'engage alors pour les survivants, qui cherchent désespérément à rejoindre une issue...
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Une famille de Los Angeles se retrouve séparée lors d'une convergence de plusieurs catastrophes climatiques entraînant les plus grands désastres de l'histoire : un super volcan, un méga tremblement de terre et une tornade massive. Alors que le monde endure ces événements quasi apocalyptiques, chacun doit persévérer et compter sur ses propres compétences et son esprit pour pouvoir retrouver les siens et survivre...
A helicopter pilot and an environmental scientist lead a exodus of survivors in a search for a safe haven after a catastrophic tectonic event causes the crust of the earth to break apart.
Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its up to our heros to save the day
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.
One morning, as kids are stealing apples from an old man’s orchard high above a seaside town, an earthquake hits. No one is hurt, and the townsfolk are non-plussed, but the old man is agitated: he alone is aware of the imminent tsunami and tries to warn the village. Based on a classic Japanese fable, The Orchard was made by one-man band Bob Stenhouse, who had been nominated for an Academy Award the previous decade for pioneer tale The Frog, The Dog and The Devil. Fans of the animator will recognise his lush, luminous hand-drawn style.