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 ...

Ridley Scott became a pretty big deal rather quickly. His first feature film as a director was 1977's "The Duellists," a lush, episodic film about two men (played by Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine) ...