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 ...

Do aliens exist? Based on how many alien invasion movies there are, you'd be forgiven that there's gotta be some proof of extraterrestrial life—and that the aliens are out to get us here on Earth. But ...

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 ...