Films, TV shows, and other examples. There are more of these than we could possibly have time to watch together this semester. If you have any suggestions please let me know and I’ll be happy to add.
A “Disaster Media” playlist that I’ve started on Spotify. If you have any other tunes you think should be included here let me know.
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
Airport (1970), Airport 1975 (1975), Airport ’77 (1977), The Concorde (1979)
Earthquake (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Independence Day (1996)
St. Helens (1981)
PBS Nova “Why Planes Crash” (1987, Available on archive.org)
Armageddon (1998)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Cloverfield (2008)
2012 (2009)
PBS Nova, “Why the Towers Fell”, a.k.a. “Engineering Ground Zero” (TV show originally aired September 7, 2011, with a companion multimedia website at pbs.org)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
San Andreas (2014)
Force Majeure (2014)
PBS Nova, “Why Trains Crash” (2017, Available in our class Google Drive)
First Reformed (2017, This the Ethan Hawke movie that Caroline mentioned about a minister in upstate New York coming undone as he grapples with the state of the world.)
Woman at War (2018, This is the Icelandic film that I mentioned about a woman single-handedly trying to disrupt an aluminum plant in rural Iceland.)
Don’t Look Up (2021, Available in our class Google Drive)
White Noise (2022, based on the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo)
The Endless Night (2023)