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A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such disasters include natural disasters such as earthquakes or asteroid collisions accidents such as shipwrecks or airplane crashes or calamities like worldwide disease pandemics. The films usually feature some degree of build-up the disaster itself and sometimes the aftermath usually from the point of view of specific individual characters or their families.