12 of the best disaster movies based on real events

If the post-apocalyptic paintings are fictitious events, the disaster movies are often removed based on real events. This, despite a fair share of invention, present in any such film, makes them particularly fascinating and spooky.

Do not rely on the fact that disaster movie will be a documentary and criticize the creators for the free interpretation of events and add fictional characters. The objective of these films is to entertain the audience and not load it with reliable facts. But do not forget that the backbone of the painting is taken from real life and the terrible events that underlie the happened actually.

"Live" is the real story of the Uruguay Rugby plane which fell in the mountainous region of the Andes. Rescuers have not even approximate coordinates of the crash site of the liner, and heavy snow lying on the slopes of the mountains, stopping to see the wreckage from the air. Eventually there comes a time when a rescue mission collapses and the survivors are left to fend for themselves.

After over scarce supplies of food, before the survivors were faced with a dilemma — to die of hunger or start eating their dead comrades. One of the passengers, Nando's, Parrado, decides to organize a small expedition for help, where you have to cross a snowy mountain range and get help. Consultants pattern makers made the real participants in the events.

Great disaster movie, thanks to which in our everyday life has firmly entered the phrase "Houston, we have a problem". In the movie describes the events of 1970, when the moon sent a third account of the expedition. At first everything went according to plan, but then on Board the ship exploding oxygen tank, that eliminates the Commission landing on the moon.

A team of astronauts began working on a plan to survive and return home. By the way, at the end of the film there is a real member of the expedition "Apollo 13", James Lovell and shakes hands with Tom Hanks, who plays him in the film.

The film is based on real events that occurred in 1912. Large passenger ocean liner the Titanic, EN route from British Southampton to new York, sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, killing more than 1,500 passengers.

The film, unless you count the romantic story of Rose and Jack, shot very reliably. The film Director, James Cameron used a massive amount of documentary materials, including the materials of the investigation into the sinking, his drawings and memoirs of survivors in this horrible disaster.

The perfect storm called hurricane, swept over the Atlantic ocean on the Halloween day in 1991. The film tells the real story of a small fishing vessel "Andrea Gail", who were not fortunate enough to get into the midst of the raging elements.

During filming the crew and the actors are not only massively seasick, but a real danger. One of the main roles, actor mark Wahlberg, nearly drowned, performing a dangerous stunt.

The film tells about the events of the cold war. The newest Soviet nuclear submarine accident occurs, the consequences of which can be very tragic. Everything is complicated by the atmosphere of the strictest secrecy, so the front of the commander, played by Harrison Ford, is a difficult choice — to save the crew or to follow through on his duty, but to kill people.

Despite the fact that the film is based on real events, the experts found credible only one small part of the movie, in which the installation of an emergency cooling system. However, this did not prevent the film to be in the top 5 best films.

The film became a tribute to the people killed during the terrorist attack of September 11, 2011 in new York city. The film tells the story of two police officers, John (Nicolas cage) and will (Michael peña), who were among the first to rescue people from terrorists attacked the skyscrapers and were trapped under the rubble of the collapsed twin towers.

The underlying plot of the film story, which received the official name "the CSX 8888 Incident", occurred in may 2001. Then an unmanned train refused to obey commands and became absolutely unmanageable. The problem was not only the possibility of a train crash — the train was carrying toxic waste and its collapse could cost lives and health of thousands of people.

To stop the uncontrollable train of an experienced locomotive engineer (Denzel Washington) and young conductor (Chris pine). These two men are very different, but they have no choice but to join forces and not to allow to happen accidents and large-scale environmental disaster.

The story of Mary and Henry of tourists from Spain who survived the tsunami in the Indian ocean. The pair, along with their three children, travelled to Thailand to spend the warm ocean Christmas holidays. Everything was just great, but immediately after Christmas, a huge wave caused by the earthquake, came ashore, washing away everything in its path.

In 2010 in the Chilean mine in San Jose collapsed, blocked underground, the 33 miners. More than two months, these people fought for life deep in the bowels of the earth, while rescuers tried to get to them from the surface. Four years after the successful completion of the operation was filmed with Antonio Banderas in the title role.

The film is based on the book "Dedicated hours" written by Michael J. Wilson. Togasa and Casey Sherman. In the book and the film tells the story of the sinking of the oil tanker Pendleton, which occurred in 1952 off the coast of New England.

A huge ship was lost in a snowstorm and before rescuers have the challenge of evacuating the crew from a damaged tanker. In real life and in the film the operation of the coast guard was directed by Bernard Webber, played by Chris pine, so beloved by Directors of disaster movies.

The night of 30 July 1945 the US Navy cruiser "Indianapolis", engaged in the transportation of uranium to make a nuclear bomb, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine sea. The ship quickly sank and 900 surviving members of his crew were forced to survive on life rafts and debris for 4 days. In addition to hunger, thirst and the risk of drowning, sailors were threatened with death by the sharks, which are very much in the latitudes where the sinking of the "Indianapolis". Help came, but it, unfortunately, waited a few.

Armenian-Russian disaster film "white" was nominated for the award "Oscar-2019" in the category "Best foreign language film". Film directed by Alexander Kott talks about the largest in the history of Armenia earthquake, which occurred in 1987.

The film is built around the story of a man named Mountains (Lernik Harutyunyan), who went to the destroyed by a natural disaster Spitak to find his family. This film was the second in the last few years taken on this tragic event. In 2016, rolling out the picture of sarika Andreasian "Earthquake", about 4 days in the life of the other destroyed elements of the Armenian city of Leninakan.