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Best Disaster Movies on Peacock

Every disaster movie streaming on Peacock in the US right now — 13 films ranked by rating, checked against Peacock’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Peacock US

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Deepwater Horizon (2016)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 82% 1h 47m

Directed by Peter Berg

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMasterful real-time tension: an explosion that keeps giving, with no pause button for human error.

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.2 2h 18m

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNuclear submarine malfunction transforms Cold War machinery into ticking doomsday device with humanity's fate sealed inside.

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

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Last Breath (2025)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 33m

Directed by Alex Parkinson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeConfined underwater claustrophobia transforms rescue into suffocating dread—pressure and darkness weaponized against human survival.

Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.

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Geostorm (2017)

IMDb 5.4 🍅 18% 1h 49m

Directed by Dean Devlin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSatellite network as hubris: man-made climate control backfires spectacularly, proving technology can't outwit nature's scale.

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

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The Hurricane Heist (2018)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 47% Letterboxd 2.2 1h 43m

Directed by Rob Cohen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHeist mechanics collide with hurricane chaos, forcing criminals to navigate dual catastrophes with mounting desperation.

Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.

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On Fire (2023)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 50% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 20m

Directed by Nick Lyon

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWildfire as indiscriminate predator consuming landscape and identity, stripping ordinary life to primal survival instincts.

Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have any hope of surviving the rapid forces of mother nature.

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Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)

IMDb 4.0 🍅 61% Letterboxd 1.9 1h 26m

Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSharknado weaponizes iconic NYC geography, turning beloved landmarks into lethal collision zones of spectacle and destruction.

A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin and April can save the Big Apple.

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Christmas Twister (2012)

IMDb 3.5 Letterboxd 1.7 1h 28m

Directed by Peter Sullivan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHoliday setting undercuts disaster tone while meteorological expertise becomes obsolete against nature's holiday indifference.

During the holiday season, Ethan, a meteorologist, and his wife Addison, a TV news reporter, must put aside their differences and band together to help save others and rescue their missing children from a massive F6 twister that has unexpectedly descended upon their small Texas town.

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Sharknado (2013)

IMDb 3.3 🍅 77% Letterboxd 1.8 1h 26m

Directed by Anthony C. Ferrante

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTornado-borne sharks transform weather phenomenon into body-horror nightmare—nature weaponized by improbable collision.

A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.

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The Fast and the Fierce (2017)

IMDb 2.7 Letterboxd 2.5 1h 27m

Directed by Ron Thornton

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAerial confinement intensifies bomb-threat disaster, trapping passengers in steel tube where nowhere is safe.

When terrorists plant a bomb on a commercial flight, the passengers aboard the plane must fight to keep the plane in the air and all the passengers alive: the bomb is rigged to detonate whenever the plane dips below 500 feet.

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40 Days and Nights (2012)

1h 26m

Directed by Peter Geiger

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBiblical flood scale demands Noah's Ark logic: genetic preservation races against rising waters' irreversible timeline.

When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.

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Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)

IMDb 2.6 Letterboxd 2.4 1h 28m

Directed by Ben Demaree

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAncient volcano eruption forces tourist commando into primal survival mode where military training means nothing.

When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of the city of Pompeii.

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100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)

IMDb 2.5 Letterboxd 2.1 1h 28m

Directed by Richard Schenkman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeReverse ice age creates weather paradox—scientists battling nature's correction of their own interventions.

After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.

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