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1) 2012
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A geophysical team investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth learns that the core of the Earth is heating up and warns the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world. Includes commentary, alternate ending, deleted scenes, featurette, and music video.
"...Emmerich...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film. Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, 1980. With a budget of $3.5 million it went on to make nearly $200 million in sales and has influenced a multitude of comedians on both sides of the camera. Surely You Can't Be Serious is the first-ever oral history of the making of Airplane! by the...
3) 10.5
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Disaster strikes the United States when a 10.5 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest causing the West Coast to separate from the rest of the continent. The situation is made worse by aftershocks and a tsunami. Now it's up to one geologist to save the Coast and the 50 million people who live there from annihilation.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After scaling the never-before-climbed 21,000-foot Siula Grande, climbers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, face their greatest challenge yet: getting back down. Tragedy strikes when Simpson shatters his leg and they are separated by a series of mishaps.
6) The quake
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Norwegian
Description
In 1904 an earthquake shook Oslo. Its epicenter was in the Oslo Rift which runs directly through the Norwegian capital. There are recorded quakes from the rift on a daily basis and geologists cannot be sure, but arguments indicate that people can expect major future earthquakes in this area.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
8) Titanic
Language
English
Description
The story of a passionate romance aboard the doomed ocean liner Titanic, framed by an account of a present-day salvager's efforts to investigate the ruins of the ship.
9) Moonfall
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
10) Airplane
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
When a massive gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A ragtag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side: the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
12) Crawl
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
13) Everest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Norwegian
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
15) Only the brave
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
16) Adrift
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
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