Films
Title | Year | Author and notes |
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Five | 1951 | |
Unknown World | 1951 | |
Invasion U.S.A. | 1952 | |
Captive Women | 1952 | |
Day the World Ended | 1955 | |
Alas, Babylon | 1960 | Pat Frank (novel) |
On the Beach | 1959 | Nevil Shute (novel); John Paxton (screenplay) |
The World, the Flesh and the Devil | 1959 | |
The Time Machine | 1960 | H. G. Wells (novel); David Duncan (screenplay) |
The Last War | 1961 | |
The Day the Earth Caught Fire | 1961 | |
The Creation of the Humanoids | 1962 | |
La jetée | 1962 | |
Panic in Year Zero! | 1962 | |
This is Not a Test | 1962 | |
Ladybug Ladybug | 1963 | |
Fail-Safe | 1964 | Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (novel); Walter Bernstein (screenplay) |
Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | Peter George (novel); Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, and Terry Southern (screenplay) |
The War Game | 1965 | |
In the Year 2889 | 1967 | |
Planet of the Apes | 1968 | Pierre Boulle (novel); Michael Wilson and Rod Serling (screenplay) |
The Bed Sitting Room | 1969 | |
Glen and Randa | 1971 | |
Zardoz | 1974 | |
A Boy and His Dog | 1975 | Harlan Ellison (short story); L.Q. Jones, Alvy Moore and Wayne Cruseturner (screenplay) |
Damnation Alley | 1977 | Roger Zelazny (novel) |
Wizards | 1977 | |
Virus | 1980 | |
Mad Max 2 | 1981 | Released as The Road Warrior in the United States. There is debate as to whether this movie takes place before or after a nuclear holocaust. |
Malevil | 1981 | |
The New Barbarians | 1982 | |
The Atomic Cafe | 1982 | |
Future War 198X | 1982 | Anime movie produced by Toei Animation about World War III breaking out in the 1980s that triggers a nuclear exchange between the US and the USSR. |
Blade Runner | 1982 | Based on the Philip K. Dick Book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and is set some time after World War Terminus. A nuclear war in which the Nuclear fall out has caused the destruction of most of the planets eco-system. |
2019, After the Fall of New York | 1983 | |
Testament | 1983 | |
The Day After | 1983 | |
Countdown to Looking Glass | 1984 | |
The Terminator franchise | 1984, 1991, 2003, 2007, 2009 | |
Threads | 1984 | |
One Night Stand | 1984 | |
Def-Con 4 | 1985 | |
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | |
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization | 1985 | |
Radioactive Dreams | 1985 | |
Dead Man's Letters | 1986 | |
The Sacrifice | 1986 | |
When the Wind Blows | 1986 | Based on the 1982 graphic novel |
Whoops Apocalypse | 1986 | Based on the ITV series |
Akira | 1988 | |
Miracle Mile | 1988 | |
By Dawn's Early Light | 1990 | |
Hardware | 1990 | |
Judge Dredd | 1995 | |
Star Trek: First Contact | 1996 | Most of the film takes place in the mid-21st century as civilization rebuilds after nuclear war. Continuation of Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series. |
The Postman | 1997 | |
Der 3. Weltkrieg, aka World War III | 1998 | |
Six-String Samurai | 1998 | |
Deterrence | 1999 | |
The Matrix (franchise) | 1999, 2003 | |
On the Beach | 2000 | |
Radio Free Steve | 2000 | Science fiction film based in post-nuclear holocaust Texas. |
Equilibrium | 2002 | |
The Dark Hour | 2007 | |
City of Ember | 2008 | |
The Road | 2009 | |
The Book of Eli | 2010 | |
The Divide | 2012 | |
Behold A Pale Horse | 2013 |
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