Movies and TvShows featuring "averting-disaster" theme.

A soldier named Stevens wakes up in another person's body and learns that he is part of a government program called the Source Code. He is tasked with finding a bomber on a commuter train, but each mission lasts only 8 minutes. As he repeats the time loop, Stevens uncovers more about the terrorist attack and his own personal situation. Determined to save the people on the train and his love interest, he defuses the bomb and sacrifices himself to ensure their safety.

While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse. With their lives at stake, they must decide between sacrificing one of their own or facing the end of the world. As they struggle to make this impossible decision, they uncover the secrets and motivations of their captors, leading to a race against time to save themselves and prevent the impending apocalypse.

Step back into the year 2000 and experience the gripping story of the Y2K millennium bug. This documentary uses all-archival footage to recreate the mass hysteria that swept through society, forever altering our modern world.

The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a great rocket-disaster. As he wants to prohibit this, a mad scientist is in his way. But there are more problems: He has to act as a human. Computer-expert Jonathan Driscoll becomes his mentor and tries to help and repair him.

Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a madman at the controls, leaps onto a handcar, which she crashes into the passenger train and thus stops it; she jumps onto the cowcatcher, and into the cab of the engine, where, after a hard struggle with the fiend, she manages to overcome him and sidetrack the passenger train thus preventing disaster.