Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

The 1950s saw a number of pioneering alien invasion classics, some of which have managed to hold up remarkably well. Such is the case with "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," which, despite its age, is ...