28 Disaster Movies Streaming For Free On Crackle
It’s almost Earth Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a disaster movie? Some may not want a reminder that we’re living in a climate crisis and that climate change is creating extreme weather events. Others, like us here at Dread Central, love a little escapism tinged in reality. These films, all streaming for free on Crackle, will scratch that nihilistic itch. Whether you’re looking for freezing cold disasters or volcanic eruptions, Crackle has it all this Earth Day.
100 Below Zero
When a chain of volcanic eruptions rips through Europe, the enormous ash cloud blocks out the sun, plunging the continent into a new ice age. An American couple must find their kids and get them out of Paris before it freezes over.
2012: Supernova
A scientist, races against a deadline to place a shield between the Earth and the oncoming blast wave from a Supernova. As well as the efforts of a doom cult to sabotage the project believing it to be God’s Will Course” and allow the population of the Earth to be consumed by the intense radiation in the wave.
Apocalypse Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius erupts when a family visits Pompeii. The daughter uses her skill and her father his ability, in order to escape the disaster.
Arctic Apocalypse
A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Countdown: Armageddon
A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.
Geo-Disaster
A family in Los Angeles finds themselves separated during a convergence of history’s greatest disasters: a super-volcano, a mega-earthquake and a massive twister. While the world endures this near-apocalyptic event, our heroes must persevere on their own skills and wit to reunite and survive.
San Andreas Mega Quake
Scientists discover the “Big One” is coming soon, and with it, everything west of the San Andreas Fault will sink into the ocean. The scientists try to stop the quake, but as foreshocks turn California into chaos, it’s a race against time.
The Apocalypse
In this epic disaster film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.
Airplane Vs. Volcano
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive – without landing.
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive—without landing.
The Quake
In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the “Oslo Graben” which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.
Age of Ice
Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in freezing temperatures that will be fatal by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the subzero climate that ushers in a new Ice Age.
2012: Ice Age
A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier toward North America, causing everything in its path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
Flood: A River’s Rampage
The residents of a midwestern city must struggle to save their lives, families, and their property when a disastrous flood strikes.
Tidal Wave: No Escape
When brutal tidal waves suddenly destroy many coastal communities in a short period of time, John Wahl, a Nobel prize winner, is brought out of his lazy retirement and back into service as a consultant.
Skyfire
Tianhuo Island is as beautiful as a paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the “Ring of Fire” the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. The volcano erupted, and the fate of the people on the island was entangled.
These Final Hours
A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.
San Andreas Quake
An L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 10.0 earthquake that will kill millions and bring Los Angeles to its knees. With only her daughter’s boyfriend realizing the danger they face, the two desperately race across town to get her husband and daughter to safety before the big one hits.
500 MPH Storms
When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A high school science teacher must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a “hypercane” with the power to wipe the US off the map.
End of the World
As a mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
Age of Tomorrow
When the sun strikes an altar hidden within the ancient Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, it creates a beacon that triggers an alien blitzkrieg. Within hours, their ships destroy all the military infrastructure on earth. One anthropologist knows how to repel the invaders.
100 Seconds to Midnight: Doomsday Clock
Intended to warn the public and inspire action, The Doomsday Clock ticks to show how close humans are to destroying the world with man-made technologies.
Inferno: Skyscraper Escape
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Disaster strikes a downtown skyscraper when a gas leak causes a ferocious explosion setting ablaze the towering mass of metal and glass.
Asteroid Vs. Earth
When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level on Earth, the world’s greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact.
Icetastrophie
A piece of a meteor strikes the center of a small mountain town and causes deadly freezing temperatures in this disaster flick.
Megafault
A seismologist and a miner must stop a massive earthquake that threatens to tear the world in half.
Meteor Apocalypse
A gigantic meteor enters Earth’s orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Super Cyclone
When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
