Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn't get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey's best-seller.

To identify the most successful movies of the 1970s ... disaster movie of the decade. It deals with a paralyzing snowstorm, a habitual stowaway, and a distraught man who sets off a bomb on a plane.

The best group watch movies require something special ... The Airport series was one of the defining disaster franchises of the 1970s and served as a major inspiration for the cult classic parody ...

Disaster movies are a niche that ... ever made and on the cusp of the 1970s disaster cinema hype. Airplane’ remains the most well-remembered movie about a plane in crisis with its off-the ...

The classic disaster movie, as opposed to movies that are disasters, is about taking an ostensibly mundane aspect of day-to-day life, like a plane flight ... and an ex-British Army nurse who ...