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.

Fiction

• 15 Minutes (2001)
• Ablaze (2000)
• Always (1989)
• Backdraft (1991) (Main characters are firefighters)
• The Bells Go Down (1943)
• Broken Vessels (1999)
• City on Fire (1979)
• Code Red (TV 1981)
• Collateral Damage (2002) (Starring character is a firefighter)
• A Dangerous Summer (1981; A.K.A. Flash Fire)
• Emergency! (TV 1972) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Emergency: The Convention (TV 1979) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Emergency: Greatest Rescues of Emergency! (TV 1979) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Emergency: Most Deadly Passage (TV 1978) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Emergency: The Steel Inferno (TV 1978) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Emergency: Survival on Charter #220 (TV 1978) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Emergency: What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing... (TV 1979) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (Main characters are firefighters)
• The Fire Alarm (1935)
• The Fire Brigade (1926)
• Fire on Kelly Mountain (TV 1973)
• Fire, Trapped on the 37th Floor (TV 1991)
• Firefight (2003)
• Firefighter (TV 1986)
• Firehouse (TV 1973)
• Firehouse (1997)
• Firehouse Dog (2007)
• The Fireman (1916)
• Fireproof (2008)
• Fires Were Started (A.K.A. I Was a Fireman; 1943)
• Firestorm (1998)
• Flames (1932)
• Frequency (2000)
• The Garage (A.K.A. Fire Chief; 1919)
• The Guys (2002)
• Heart of Fire (TV 1997)
• Heaven's Fire (TV 1999)
• Hellfighters (1968) (Main characters are oil rig firefighters)
• Heroes of the Flames (1931)
• Holy Joe (1999)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Inferno (2001)
• Into the Fire (TV 2005)
• Ladder 49 (2004) (Main characters are firefighters)
• Life of an American Fireman (1903)
• Lifeline (1997, Hong Kong)
• London's Burning: The Movie (TV movie and series, 1986)
• Mickey's Fire Brigade (1935)
• Point of Origin (TV 2002)
• Quarantine (2008)
• Red Skies of Montana (1952)
• Roxanne (1987)
• Smoke Jumpers (A.K.A. In the Line of Duty: Smoke Jumpers; 1996)
• Superfire (TV 2002)
• The Towering Inferno (1974) (One of the two main stars is a firefighter)
• Trapped in a Forest Fire (1913)
• Trespass (1992)
• The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)
• Turk 182 (1985) (Main character is brother of a firefighter)
• Turn Out of the Cardiff Fire Brigade (1924)
• Where's That Fire? (1940)
• World Trade Center (2006)

Non-fiction

• 9/11 (TV 2002)
• Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers (TV 2006)
• Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY (2005)
• Fire Call (Web 2006-2008) ^[1]
• "Fire Wars" (episode of NOVA, TV 2002)
• Fires of Kuwait (1992)
• New York's Bravest - A Firefighting Odyssey (2005)
• Twin Towers (2002)

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