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 (metal band), American avant-garde metal band
  • Crisis (punk band), British punk band

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 (Boye novel), a 1934 autobiographical novel by Karin Boye
  • Crisis (Cook novel), a 2006 novel in the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series by Robin Cook
  • Crisis (Majfud novel), a 2012 novel by Jorge Majfud

Games

  • Crisis (game), a play-by-mail wargame

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, a video game series
  • Khrysis, American music producer
  • Emergency
  • The Crisis (disambiguation)
  • Crises (disambiguation)