question of the day: What disaster -- natural or manmade, or a combination of the two -- would you like to see depicted on film?

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which makes me think about disaster movies. No, I mean movies about disasters, not diastrous movies such as, erm, Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. Also too: soon we’ll be celebrating the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic with a 3D extravaganza rerelease of James Cameron’s Titanic (which I actually do think is a really good movie about a disaster precisely because it captures, in part, the kind of arrogance that caused the disaster in the first place, and how it, of course, still exists today).

So, today’s question: What disaster -- natural or manmade, or a combination of the two -- would you like to see depicted on film? Could be a feature film, could be a TV miniseries, whatever.

A few I think would be intriguing:

• the Tunguska event in Siberia, 1908, when a comet or meteor exploded in the atmosphere; no one was close enough to be killed, but enough people were close enough to be impacted by it
• the first century AD destruction of Pompeii by volcano; the Doctor Who episode “The Fires of Pompeii” did a surprisingly good job of dramatizing some of this event on a relatively small budget and with the added distractions of fantastical elements, but it deserves its own telling
• surely something called the Boston Molasses Disaster is begging for the Coen Brothers’ treatment.