Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "averting-disaster"

1. Knock at the Cabin (2023)

R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird

Votes: 115,432

2. Deja Vu (2006)

PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer

Votes: 327,700 | Gross: $64.04M

3. Source Code (2011)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright

Votes: 549,883 | Gross: $54.71M

4. Men in Black³ (2012)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement

Votes: 387,123 | Gross: $179.02M

5. Next (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.

Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 166,440 | Gross: $18.21M

6. The Peacemaker (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures, Aleksandr Baluev

Votes: 62,425 | Gross: $41.26M

7. Thirteen Days (2000)

PG-13 | 145 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll, Drake Cook

Votes: 62,709 | Gross: $34.59M

8. The China Syndrome (1979)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady

Votes: 33,045 | Gross: $51.72M

9. Time Bomb Y2K (2023)

TV-PG | 84 min | Documentary

An immersive, all-archival retelling of the "Y2K" millennium bug and the mass hysteria that changed the fabric of modern society.

Directors: Brian Becker, Marley Mcdonald

Votes: 910

10. The Tomorrow Man (1996 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The humanoid Kenn arrives from the future in a spaceship in the present days to save the future of mankind. He sees a billboard and assumes the form of the man in the advertisement. Then he... See full summary »

Director: Bill D'Elia | Stars: Julian Sands, Giancarlo Esposito, Craig Wasson, Obba Babatundé

Votes: 369

11. Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982 TV Movie)

95 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil emperor Ming the Merciless.

Stars: Robert Ridgely, Diane Pershing, Bob Holt, David Opatoshu

Votes: 371

12. The Fiend at the Throttle (1915)

Short, Thriller

Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a... See full summary »

Stars: Elsie MacLeod, John Burden, DeVore Palmer, Philip Robson

13. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Cause and Effect (1992)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 4,760

14. Batman Beyond (1999–2001)
Episode: Joyride (1999)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When a prototype military vehicle with a disastrous flaw is abandoned and seized by Jokerz, Batman and the vehicle's creator must hunt it down before it explodes.

Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Wendie Malick, Marc Worden

Votes: 529

15. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode: All Shook Up (1994)

TV-PG | 47 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Superman flies into space to stop an asteroid headed toward Earth. The impact leaves him with no memory. It's up to Martha and Jonathan to make him remember who he is and how to use his powers before the asteroid wipes out all human life.

Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Michael Landes

Votes: 356

16. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: That Which Survives (1969)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After the Enterprise landing party beams down to investigate a geologically interesting planet, their ship is hurled across the galaxy. Kirk and company find a deserted outpost guarded by the deadly image of a beautiful woman.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Lee Meriwether

Votes: 2,945

17. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: A Matter of Time (1991)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Reaching Penthara IV after an asteroid wreaks havoc of catastrophic proportions, the Enterprise crew deals with trying to save the planet as well as deal with someone who claims to be a historian from the future.

Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,147

18. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Coming of Age (1988)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard finds himself facing a strenuous test of his loyalty to Starfleet, one which the other members of the crew are struggling to cope with, whilst Wesley faces an equally challenging entrance exam at Starfleet Academy.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 3,675

19. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Cost of Living (1992)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

As undetectable parasites devour the ship, Deanna's mother arrives, taking young Alexander under her wing en route to meeting a man she's blindly agreed to marry.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 2,872

20. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Disaster (1991)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Collision with a quantum filament leaves Troi in charge of a damaged and endangered Enterprise with emergency bulkheads cutting off sections of the ship.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,603

21. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Hollow Pursuits (1990)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A shy member of the "Enterprise" crew becomes addicted to the holodeck, where relationships are easier than in real life, when his knowledge is needed in engineering.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,600

22. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Pen Pals (1989)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Data befriends an alien girl in distress, breaking the Prime Directive, while Wesley commands his first team.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,479

23. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Relics (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Enterprise stumbles upon a Dyson sphere, with a ship crashed on the outer surface. An away team finds some systems still powered up and the chief engineer from the old Enterprise, Montgomery Scott, locked in the transporter cycle.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,935

24. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The High Ground (1990)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

While visiting a planet under civil war, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by an opposing faction of the planet's ruling government.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,341

25. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Naked Now (1987)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The crew of the Enterprise is infected with a virus that causes them to behave as though they were intoxicated.

Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 4,707

26. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Next Phase (1992)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,460

27. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Timescape (1993)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Aboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Nimoy | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,389

28. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: True Q (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an honor student in the medical field is assigned to the Enterprise in an internship manner, she begins to demonstrate powers of the Q, prompting you-know-who to show up.

Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,169

29. The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991)
Episode: Ragnarok and Roll (1987)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

The Ghostbusters investigate several supernatural incidents which lead to them visiting a woman whose home is at the centre of where the events took place. They discover that she is linked ... See full summary »

Stars: Arsenio Hall, Maurice LaMarche, Lorenzo Music, Laura Summer

Votes: 136

30. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: Albatross (1974)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Dr. McCoy is arrested and charged with causing an alien plague.

Directors: Bill Reed, Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 691

31. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: One of Our Planets Is Missing (1973)

TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The crew of the Enterprise must stop a living planet-consuming cloud before it attacks an inhabited world.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 901

32. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: The Terratin Incident (1973)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Exposed to spiroid epsilon waves, the Enterprise crew begins to shrink in size. If a way can not be found to stop their condition, they will soon be too small to control the ship.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 737

33. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: The Time Trap (1973)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Enterprise and a Klingon ship are trapped in space-time warp where only their cooperation will allow them to escape.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 747

34. Super Friends (1973–1985)
Episode: The Marsh Monster/The Runaways/Will the World Collide?/Time Rescue (1977)

TV-Y7-FV | 46 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A swamp creature steals the plans for a new engine. A pair of runaways get in trouble. A vengeful scientist tries to get a planet to collide with Earth. A reckless scientist traps himself 2000 years in the future.

Director: Charles Nichols | Stars: Norman Alden, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Danny Dark

Votes: 50

35. Vox (2014– )
Episode: Why you don't hear about the ozone layer anymore (2021)

9 min | Documentary

In 1987 the world came together to fight and international threat - chlorofluorocarbons depleting the ozone layer that protects life from high energy ultraviolet light produced by the sun. ... See full summary »

Star: Susan Solomon

36. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Schooled (2011)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Young Justice is assigned transport duty. To deliver parts of an android that has duplicated the powers of several Justice Leaguers. The creator of the android wants him back.

Director: Michael Chang | Stars: Jesse McCartney, Danica McKellar, Nolan North, Khary Payton

Votes: 3,236

37. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Humanity (2011)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Team is on the hunt for Red Tornado, and their friend Zatanna wants to come along for the ride.

Director: Matt Youngberg | Stars: Stephanie Lemelin, Jesse McCartney, Danica McKellar, Nolan North

Votes: 3,140

38. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Performance (2012)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Robin, Artemis, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Red Arrow go undercover as the Daring Dangers to discover the link between Haly's circus and stolen weapon technology.

Director: Michael Chang | Stars: Crispin Freeman, Jesse McCartney, Stephanie Lemelin, Danica McKellar

Votes: 3,070

39. Defenders of the Earth (1986–1991)
Episode: Rick Gordon, One-Man Army (1986)

TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rick and the Defenders must save a tropical island from revolutionary forces who are in cahoots with Ming the Merciless.

Directors: John Gibbs, Ray Lee | Stars: William Callaway, Adam Carl, Ron Feinberg, Buster Jones

Votes: 10

40. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: The Man Who Saved the World (2012)

TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, History, War

How, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a Soviet submarine fleet commander and K-19 survivor, Vasili Arkhipov, kept his cool under enormous pressure and prevented his men from starting WWIII after being surrounded by the US fleet.

Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Viktor Mikhailov, Olga Arkhipova, Andy Bradick

Votes: 64

41. Beware the Batman (2013–2014)
Episode: Tests (2013)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A new villain has arrived in Gotham to challenge Batman: Anarky who prides himself on his brilliance and intends to prove it to Batman by manipulating a pair of street thugs. But Anarky's real plan is far more devastating.

Directors: Curt Geda, Butch Lukic | Stars: Anthony Ruivivar, Carlos Alazraqui, JB Blanc, Arif S. Kinchen

Votes: 180

42. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
How Government 'Diversity' Initiatives Are Leading Us to a Major Airline Disaster (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

Diversity initiatives lead to airplane disasters. A young boy smeared by the media turns out to be Native American. The Daily Wire's sports comedy outrages the Left. A TikTok trends involves emptying water bottles to save the oceans.

Director: Mark Jones | Star: Matt Walsh

Votes: 12

43. Beware the Batman (2013–2014)
Episode: Instinct (2013)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Professor Pyg and Mr. Toad are back... and they've set their sights on Gotham's elite couture culture. Will Gotham's Fashion Week survive the villains' vile attack?

Directors: Rick Morales, Butch Lukic | Stars: Anthony Ruivivar, Brian George, Finola Hughes, Udo Kier

Votes: 142

44. Beware the Batman (2013–2014)
Episode: Alone (2014)

TV-PG | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Alfred is taken hostage by Deathstroke in the Batcave, Batman must face him alone. Harvey Dent reveals his true nature as Two-Face.

Directors: Rick Morales, Butch Lukic | Stars: Anthony Ruivivar, Adam Baldwin, JB Blanc, Robin Atkin Downes

Votes: 113

45. CSI: Cyber (2015–2016)
Episode: CMND:/Crash (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A roller coaster crash seems to have been caused by illegal access to the ride's internal computer.

Director: Jeff T. Thomas | Stars: Patricia Arquette, James Van Der Beek, Peter MacNicol, Shad Moss

Votes: 445

46. Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2014–2020)
Episode: Out of Focus (2015)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A skunk Decepticon who uses noxious toxins puts the team under control, and it's up to Bumblebee to save his friends.

Directors: Vinton Heuck, David Hartman | Stars: Peter Cullen, Will Friedle, Constance Zimmer, Darren Criss

Votes: 24

47. Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2014–2020)
Episode: Similarly Different (2015)

TV-Y7-FV | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A restless Grimlock meets up with a Dinobot criminal, and ponders returning to his old ways.

Director: Frank Marino | Stars: Will Friedle, Constance Zimmer, Darren Criss, Khary Payton

Votes: 22

48. Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2014–2020)
Episode: Strongarm's Big Score (2016)

TV-Y7-FV | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Strongarm encounters another Scavenger in an attempt to impress people, and things get complicated.

Directors: Vinton Heuck, David Hartman | Stars: Peter Cullen, Will Friedle, Constance Zimmer, Darren Criss

Votes: 21

49. MacGyver (2016–2021)
Episode: Riley + Airplane (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Mac and the team search for a former government tech who stole classified intel and cross paths with the Coltons, who are hunting the same man for different reasons.

Director: Antonio Negret | Stars: Lucas Till, George Eads, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires

Votes: 554

50. Star Trek: Lower Decks (2020–2024)
Episode: First First Contact (2021)

TV-MA | 29 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked to aid an Excelsior-class starship on a first contact mission.

Directors: Jason Zurek, Barry J. Kelly | Stars: Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Eugene Cordero

Votes: 1,174