While these 1970s action movies won't go down as history as fine art, the truth was that they're the perfect choice for a group watch movie party.

So, anyway, it says on the insurance policy. But the crises in 1970s disaster movies were almost always caused by Man. Or if not directly caused, then aided and abetted. Start the day smarter.

This precursor to later "epic" 1970s disaster films presents 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal ...

the modern disaster movie as we know it came of age in 1970 with Airport, released 55 years ago this week. Based on a best-selling 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey, Airport solidified the template for ...

If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because 'Airplane' was a send-up of this forerunner of the 1970s disaster movie..