7 of the best real-life disaster movies

1A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) LONG before Leo and Kate had their romantic liaison on the doomed liner, this black and white British drama told the story of the last hours of RMS Titanic.

2KRAKATOA, EAST OF JAVA (1969) THE story was loosely based on events surrounding the 1883 eruption of the volcano on the island of Krakatoa. Unfortunately for the film-makers Krakatoa is actually west of Java.

3ALIVE (1993) IN 1972 a Uruguayan rugby team were left stranded in the Andes Mountains after their plane crashed. When all food supplies run out, the survivors see no other option but to eat one of their recently deceased teammates or perish themselves.

4THE PERFECT STORM (2000) GEORGE CLOONEY plays the skipper of fishing boat the Andrea Gail which was thrashed by 40-foot waves in a “perfect storm” off the coast of Massachusetts in 1991.

5WORLD TRADE CENTER (2006) THE attacks of September 11, 2001, which brought down the Twin Towers are played out through the eyes of two Port Authority officers, (Nicholas Cage and Michael Pena) who become trapped in the rubble of the WTC.

6THE IMPOSSIBLE (2012) NAOMI WATTS and Ewan McGregor play the real-life mum and dad fighting to keep their family alive after they were caught up in the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004.

7THE 33 (2013) IN 2010, 33 Chilean miners captured the world’s attention after they were trapped underground for 69 days following the collapse of their mine.