Asteroid

Asteroid (1997) is an American TV sci-fi thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Bradford May; Michael Biehn and Annabella Sciorra lead the cast. Comet Fletcher knocks two rocks off their orbits — Helios hits the American West first, and the larger Eros follows right behind it.

Astronomer Dr. Mackey spots the incoming objects and gets the head of FEMA on the phone. Forty-eight hours to coordinate the military, the National Guard, the Red Cross and the fire departments — all while deciding how much to tell the public. Dallas is the projected impact zone for the bigger rock. The film cuts between several groups: scientists running numbers, Kansas firefighters driving into the evacuation, doctors in the target city.

A solid late-1990s disaster TV movie — tighter on character than the theatrical blockbusters of the same era, and honest about the chaos a real emergency like this would produce. Stream Asteroid online on iFILM.