List of firefighting films

The following criteria qualify a film for inclusion on this list:

• Primary plot of film regards firefighting or related fire/rescue service work in general.
• Primary plot of the film involves firefighters or their personal lives as affected by their firefighting.
• Noteworthy attention is given to firefighting activities.

This list includes documentaries and TV series.

Fiction

• 15 Minutes (2001)
• The 119 (TV 1987) (unaired)
• 911 (TV 2018)
• Ablaze (2019)
• Ablaze (2001)
• The Accidental Husband (2008)
• Always (1989)
• As the Light Goes Out (2014)
• Asphalt City (2024)
• Backdraft (1991)
• Bad Day on the Block (1997)
• The Bells Go Down (1943)
• Blue Smoke (2007)
• Burning Flame (2009)
• Chicago Fire (TV 2012)
• City on Fire (1979)
• Code Red (TV 1981)
• Collateral Damage (2002)
• A Dangerous Summer (A.K.A. Flash Fire; 1981)
• Emergency! (TV 1972)
• Emergency: The Convention (TV 1979)
• Emergency: Greatest Rescues of Emergency! (TV 1979)
• Emergency: Most Deadly Passage (TV 1978)
• Emergency: The Steel Inferno (TV 1978)
• Emergency: Survival on Charter #220 (TV 1978)
• Emergency: What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing... (TV 1979)
• The Fallen (2009)
• False Alarms (1936)
• Fire! (1901)
• Fire! (TV 1977)
• The Fire Alarm (1935)
• The Fire Brigade (1926)
• Fire Cheese (1941)
• Fire Country (TV 2022)
• Fire on Kelly Mountain (TV 1973)
• Fire Serpent (TV 2007)
• Fire, Trapped on the 37th Floor (TV 1991)
• Firefight (2003)
• Firefighter (TV 1986)
• Firefighter (TV 2005)
• The Firefighters (British, 1975)
• Fireheart (2022)
• Firehouse (TV 1974)
• Firehouse (1987)
• Firehouse (1997)
• Firehouse Dog (2007)
• The Fireman (1916)
• Fireman Sam (1987-present)
• Fireproof (2008)
• Fires (2021)
• Fires Were Started (A.K.A. I Was a Fireman; 1943)
• Firestorm (1998)
• Flames (1932)
• Flat Foot Stooges (1938)
• Frequency (2000)
• The Garage (A.K.A. Fire Chief; 1920)
• Going to the Fire (1896, Edison Films)
• The Guys (2002)
• H.E.L.P. (TV 1990)
• Heart of Fire (TV 1997)
• Heaven's Fire (TV 1999)
• Hellfighters (1968)
• Heroes of the Flames (1931)
• Holy Joe (1999)
• Hook and Ladder (1932)
• I Do (But I Don't) (2004)
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• Inferno (2001)
• Into the Fire (TV 2005)
• Juvenile Fire Department (1903)
• Ladder 49 (2004)
• Life of an American Fireman (1903)
• Lifeline (1997, Hong Kong)
• London's Burning (television film and series, 1986)
• Mickey's Fire Brigade (1935)
• The Morning Alarm (1896)
• A Morning Alarm (1896, Edison Films)
• On Fire (1987)
• On Fire (1996, Hong Kong)
• One True Love (2000, Lifetime Movie)
• Only the Brave (2017)
• Out of Inferno (2013, Hong Kong)
• Pine Canyon Is Burning (1977)
• Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)
• Playing with Fire (1985)
• Playing with Fire (2008)
• Playing with Fire (2019)
• Point of Origin (TV 2002)
• Promare (2019)
• Pyromaniac (2016, Norway) (Pyromanen)
• Quarantine (2008)
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)
• Rescue 8 (1958)
• Rescue Me (TV 2004)
• Rookie Fireman (1950)
• Scorched (2008)
• She Loved a Fireman (1937)
• Skyscraper (2018)
• Smoke Jumpers (A.K.A. In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers; 1996)
• Station 19 (TV 2018)
• Superfire (TV 2002)
• Tacoma FD (TV 2019)
• Third Watch (TV 1999)
• Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
• The Tower (2012 South Korean film)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)
• Trapped in a Forest Fire (1913)
• Trespass (1992)
• Trial by Fire (A.K.A. Smoke Jumper; 2008)
• Turk 182 (1985)
• Turn Out of the Cardiff Fire Brigade (1924)
• Volcano (1997)
• Where's That Fire? (1940)

Non-fiction

• 102 Minutes that Changed America (TV 2008)
• 343 (2007)
• 9/11 (TV 2002)
• 9/11: The Falling Man (TV 2006)
• Ablaze (2019 film), New Zealand telemovie
• The Academy: Orange County Fire Authority Recruit Class 36 (FOX reality TV 2009)
• America Burning: The Yarnell Hill Fire Tragedy and the Nation's Wildfire Crisis (Weather Channel 2014)
• Angels Too Soon (WTTV 2003)
• Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers (TV 2006)
• The Big Burn (PBS 2019)
• Brave Are The Fallen (2020)
• "The Bronx is Burning" (episode of Man Alive, TV 1972, BBC)
• Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY (2005)
• Burn (2012)
• Burned: The Science of Arson (TV: 20/20 episode May 7, 2010)
• Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (A.K.A. A Thousand Heroes, TV 1992)
• Detroit on Fire: A Documentary (Constance York 2011)
• Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 (TV 2006)
• Escape: Because Accidents Happen: Fire (TV NOVA 1999)
• "Fire Wars" (episode of NOVA, TV 2002)
• Firefighters: Brothers in Battle (1991)
• Firehouse USA: Boston (TV 2005)
• Fires of Kuwait (1992)
• Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone (TV 2006)
• First In (TV)
• A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY (TV 2014 HBO)
• How to Survive a Disaster (BBC Horizon 2 2008)
• Hunt for the Serial Arsonist (TV NOVA 1995)
• Into the Fire (2007)
• Modern Marvels "Firefighting! Extreme Conditions" (S12E72 TV: History Channel 2004)
• Modern Marvels "Oil Firefighting" (S11E08 TV: History Channel 2004)
• Modern Marvels "The Arson Detectives" (S11E46 TV: History Channel 2004)
• New York's Bravest - A Firefighting Odyssey (2005)
• Only the Brave (2017)
• The Price of Fire (1960), National Film Board of Canada, educational documentary
• Pyromania (TV Mania, S01E03)
• Q.E.D. The Burning Question: A Case of Spontaneous Human Combustion (BBC TV 1998)
• Ricky's Rib Shack, a Firefighter's Journey (2008)
• Toxic Hot Seat (HBO 2013)
• Toxic Soup: The Politics of Pollution (2011)
• The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)
• Triangle Fire (PBS American Experience 2011)
• Tunnel Inferno: Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire (TV Seconds From Disaster S01E02)
• Twin Towers (2002)
• Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (TV 1993)
• The Women of Ground Zero (2002)
• World Trade Center (2006)