Inside audiences' love of disaster movies

Natural and man-made disasters have always been a part of life - and they've become a very successful film genre. Michelle Miller recently went to a 50th anniversary screening of the acclaimed disaster film "The Towering Inferno" to try to find out why audiences love these films so much.

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Inside audiences' love of disaster movies

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