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 (DC Comics), a number of stories in the DC Universe, including:
  • Crisis on Infinite Earths, a crossover event spanning the DC comics multiverse
    • Infinite Crisis, the sequel series to Crisis on Infinite Earths
      • Final Crisis, the follow-up series to Infinite Crisis
• Crisis (Fleetway), a British comic

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

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 1991 song by Fear Factory from Soul of a New Machine
• "Crisis", a 2016 song by Anohni from Hopelessness (album)

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) TV series), a 1949 television series on NBC
• 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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Crisis (novel), a 2006 novel 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"

See also

• climax (disambiguation)
• Critical (disambiguation)
• CRYSIS, an electron beam generator
• Crysis, a video game
• Emergency
• The Crisis (disambiguation)