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Apocalypse, baby

by jthaule • Created 4 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
Apocalypse movies worth seeing. Many of which include nukes and stuff, but nothing supernatural.
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  • Frankie Avalon, Ray Milland, Richard Bakalyan, Neil Burstyn, Joan Freeman, Jean Hagen, Rex Holman, and Mary Mitchel in Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

    1. Panic in Year Zero!

    19621h 33mApproved
    6.6 (5.3K)
    A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway.
    DirectorRay MillandStarsRay MillandJean HagenFrankie Avalon
  • Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, John Hamill, Patrick Holt, and Jean Wallace in No Blade of Grass (1970)

    2. No Blade of Grass

    19701h 36mR
    5.8 (2.2K)
    An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
    DirectorCornel WildeStarsNigel DavenportJean WallaceJohn Hamill
  • Mel Gibson in Mad Max (1979)

    3. Mad Max

    19791h 28mR73Metascore
    6.8 (240K)
    In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
    DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonJoanne SamuelHugh Keays-Byrne
  • The Road Warrior (1981)

    4. The Road Warrior

    19811h 36mR77Metascore
    7.6 (209K)
    In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.
    DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonBruce SpenceMichael Preston
  • Mel Gibson, Toni Allaylis, Helen Buday, Justine Clarke, Adam Cockburn, Mark Kounnas, Adam Scougall, Shane Tickner, Tina Turner, James Wingrove, and Rod Zuanic in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

    5. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

    19851h 47mPG-1371Metascore
    6.2 (159K)
    After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
    DirectorsGeorge MillerGeorge OgilvieStarsMel GibsonTina TurnerBruce Spence
  • Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)

    6. Countdown to Looking Glass

    19841h 30mTV Movie
    6.9 (799)
    Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
    DirectorFred BarzykStarsScott GlennMichael MurphyHelen Shaver
  • Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy in WarGames (1983)

    7. WarGames

    19831h 54mPG77Metascore
    7.1 (118K)
    A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
    DirectorJohn BadhamStarsMatthew BroderickAlly SheedyJohn Wood
  • The War Game (1966)

    8. The War Game

    196648m
    7.9 (7.7K)
    A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
    DirectorPeter WatkinsStarsMichael AspelPeter GrahamDave Baldwin
  • Red Dawn (1984)

    9. Red Dawn

    19841h 54mPG-1353Metascore
    6.3 (67K)
    It is the dawn of World War III. In the western mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
    DirectorJohn MiliusStarsPatrick SwayzeC. Thomas HowellLea Thompson
  • The Day After (1983)

    10. The Day After

    19832h 7mTV-PGTV Movie
    7.0 (20K)
    The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
    DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsJason RobardsJoBeth WilliamsSteve Guttenberg
  • Michael Beecroft in Threads (1984)

    11. Threads

    19841h 52mTV-MATV Movie92Metascore
    7.9 (26K)
    The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
    DirectorMick JacksonStarsKaren MeagherReece DinsdaleDavid Brierly
  • Dead Man's Letters (1986)

    12. Dead Man's Letters

    19861h 27m
    7.5 (4.3K)
    In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
    DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsRolan BykovIosif RyklinViktor Mikhaylov
  • Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Powers Boothe, and Martin Landau in By Dawn's Early Light (1990)

    13. By Dawn's Early Light

    19901h 40mPG-13TV Movie
    6.9 (4.4K)
    A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.
    DirectorJack SholderStarsPowers BootheRebecca De MornayJames Earl Jones
  • Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills in When the Wind Blows (1986)

    14. When the Wind Blows

    19861h 24m16+
    7.7 (14K)
    A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.
    DirectorJimmy T. MurakamiStarsPeggy AshcroftJohn MillsRobin Houston
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

    15. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    19641h 35mPG97Metascore
    8.3 (541K)
    A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling Hayden
  • On the Beach (1959)

    16. On the Beach

    19592h 14mApproved55Metascore
    7.1 (15K)
    After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
    DirectorStanley KramerStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerFred Astaire
  • Fail Safe (1964)

    17. Fail Safe

    19641h 52mApproved75Metascore
    8.0 (26K)
    A technical malfunction sends American bombers to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
    DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaWalter MatthauFritz Weaver
  • World War III (1982)

    18. World War III

    19822 epsTV Mini Series
    6.6 (848)
    Soviet forces attack Alaska's pipeline during a US grain embargo in 1987. Col. Caffey's Guard unit faces them at a pump station as Soviet and US leaders engage in strategic tension, risking WWIII.
    StarsDavid SoulBrian KeithCathy Lee Crosby
  • The Atomic Cafe (1982)

    19. The Atomic Cafe

    19821h 26mNot Rated
    7.6 (4.7K)
    Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
    DirectorsJayne LoaderKevin RaffertyPierce RaffertyStarsPaul TibbetsHarry S. TrumanW.H.P. Blandy
  • O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)

    20. O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

    19851h 28m
    7.2 (2.3K)
    A man searches for survival after nuclear war forces people into an underground bunker. The inhabitants await rescue while their refuge decays around them.
    DirectorPiotr SzulkinStarsJerzy StuhrKrystyna JandaKalina Jedrusik
  • Protect and Survive (1976)

    21. Protect and Survive

    19761h 6m
    6.8 (62)
    Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.
    DirectorBill StewartStarPatrick Allen
  • Ian McCulloch and Carolyn Seymour in Survivors (1975)

    22. Survivors

    1975–197738 epsTV Series
    8.0 (1.5K)
    A community of survivors struggle to stay alive in the wake of a global pandemic known as the Death that wiped out 99.98% of humanity.
    CreatorTerry NationStarsLucy FlemingIan McCullochDenis Lill
  • James Olson and Robert Soto in The Andromeda Strain (1971)

    23. The Andromeda Strain

    19712h 11mG60Metascore
    7.2 (43K)
    Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsJames OlsonArthur HillDavid Wayne
  • Virus (1980)

    24. Virus

    19801h 48mPG
    6.2 (3.4K)
    After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsMasao KusakariTsunehiko WataseIsao Natsuyagi
  • Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (2009)

    25. The Road

    20091h 51mR64Metascore
    7.2 (265K)
    In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.
    DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsViggo MortensenCharlize TheronKodi Smit-McPhee

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