From natural disasters to epidemics to monsters wreaking havoc, disaster movies have always fascinated audiences. We experience some of our biggest anxieties vicariously through the characters on ...

Disaster movies used to be all the rage. Back in the 1990s, movie theaters were chock full of one disaster epic after another. Armageddon was a sensation, Independence Day remains an annual watch ...

But images — and disaster movies and very special episodes — never prepare us for real devastation. There is no resolution at the end of the hour, no bittersweet song to play over a credit ...