From Publishers Weekly

This smart and punchy guide to movies centered on man-made, divine or natural events leading to high death tolls or mass destruction is a must have for the genre’s devoted fan. The co-authors’ short history of the form begins with newsreel footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the earliest produced disaster film (the “little-seen” silent 1913 Italian film The Last Days of Pompeii) and nods to the many cheesy one-offs and contemporary mega-budget (more…)

Disaster Movies