Crisis (disambiguation)
# Crisis (disambiguation)

A crisis is a traumatic or stressful change for a person, or an unstable and dangerous situation for a society.

Crisis may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Comics

* Crisis (Fleetway), a British comic
* Crisis on Infinite Earths, by DC Comics, often called in-universe as just "The Crisis"

### Films

* Crisis (1939 film), a documentary about the 1938 Sudeten Crisis
* Crisis (1946 film), a film directed by Ingmar Bergman
* Crisis (1950 film), a film directed by Richard Brooks
* Crisis (1972 film), a film directed by Robert Bruning
* Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, a 1963 documentary directed by Robert Drew
* Crisis (2021 film), a film directed by Nicholas Jarecki

### Music

**Groups and labels**

* Crisis (band), a defunct punk rock group

**Albums**

* Crisis (Alexisonfire album), a 2006 album by Alexisonfire
* Crisis (Ornette Coleman album), a 1969 album by Ornette Coleman
* Crisis? What Crisis?, a 1975 album by Supertramp

**Songs**

* "Crisis", a 1961 song by Freddie Hubbard from Mosaic (Art Blakey album) and from Ready for Freddie
* "Crisis", a 1978 song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from the album Kaya
* "Crisis", a 1992 song by Fear Factory from Soul of a New Machine
* "Crisis", a 2016 song by Anohni from Hopelessness (album)
* "Crisis", a 2020 song by In Hearts Wake from Kaliyuga

### Periodicals

* Crisis Magazine, a publication of Sophia Institute Press
* The Crisis (newspaper), a newspaper published during the first half of the American Civil War by Samuel Medary
* The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP

### Television

* "Crisis" (M*A*S*H), a 1974 episode of the CBS television series
* Crisis (TV series), 2014 television series produced for NBC
* Crisis, the alternate title for Kraft Suspense Theatre in syndicated reruns
* "Crisis", episode 3 of the 1964 Doctor Who serial Planet of Giants; may also refer to the original recorded version that never aired

### Literature

* Crisis (Majfud novel), a 2012 novel by Jorge Majfud
* Crisis (Cook novel), a 2006 novel in the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook

## Economics

* Crisis theory, a theory generally associated with Marxian economics
* Financial crisis, a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value

## Psychology

* Existential crisis, when a person doubts if his or her existence has a purpose
* Identity crisis (psychology)
* Midlife crisis, several issues that confront some people aged from 40 to 55
   * Quarter-life crisis, a recently coined similar term for 20- to 30-year-olds
* Suicidal crisis

## Other uses

* Crisis (charity) (formerly Crisis at Christmas), a British charity
* Crisis (dynamical systems), the sudden appearance or disappearance of a strange attractor as the parameters of a dynamical system are varied
* Chinese translation of crisis, popular misconception that "crisis" is translated "danger"+"opportunity"
