title: Crisis (disambiguation)
text: # 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"
  