Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1938, Orson Welles hosted a radio version of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” that reportedly sent listeners into a panic by ...

Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, is invading a new streaming platform in March. Find out more.

12. Independence Day The disaster movie genre tends to see a resurgence every decade or so, and "Independence Day" kicked off one such resurgence in the mid-1990s. It's one part disaster movie, one ...

Director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion movie Independence Day arrives on Netflix today and I, for one, can’t wait to watch the film for what might be the 50th time. Sure, there are plenty of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that ...