The Takeover: Episode 1 (Post-Apocalyptic Series)

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The Book of Eli. The first film to imagine a new primitive society emerging long after a nuclear war. Loosely based on the novel by Roger Zelazny. Day the World Ended. Based on the book series Deathlands. Empire of Ash II. Empire of Ash III. The End of August at the Hotel Ozone. Konec srpna v Hotelu Ozon [15] [16]. After barely surviving yet another worldwide conflict, mankind rejects all emotion and outlaws all forms of expression which might encourage emotional response.

Escape From New York. Exterminators of the Year Yonju-ichi jikan no kyofu.

Fist of the North Star. By Arch Oboler , the first film to show the aftermath of a nuclear war, centered on a group of five survivors. Hell Comes to Frogtown. In the Year A remake of the film Day the World Ended.

Journey to the Center of Time. The Last Man on Earth. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

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Film version directed by Christian de Chalonge. An American soldier becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear war. The crew of an American submarine finds temporary safety from the fallout in Australia after the nuclear holocaust from the novel by Nevil Shute. Panic in Year Zero! The People Who Own the Dark. By Amando de Ossorio Spanish title: Planet of the Apes.

Partly based on the David Brin Novel. Steve is a radio pirate in the days after WWIII bringing hope to the people after the remnants of the government re-emerged and shut down all TV and radio stations that had been broadcasting unlicensed. After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, then they find the keys to the last MX missile.

El refugio del miedo [37]. A low-budget B-movie , an extremely loose adaptation of the novel She by H. Rider Haggard , starring Sandahl Bergman as a post-civilization warrior. She-Wolves of the Wasteland. The Soviet Union threatens a retaliatory nuclear attack, amid the chaos, only The Survivalist has a plan. Terror from the Year A future second world war leads to a breakdown of civilization in most of the world, with technology returning to medieval levels by Swiss film, French title: This Is Not a Test.

Time of the Wolf. Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the above ground world. Warrior of the Lost World. Warriors of the Apocalypse. After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life.

Warriors of the Wasteland. When the Wind Blows. By Jimmy Murakami , adapting the graphic novel by Raymond Briggs. A good wizard and his evil brother battle some two millennia after Armageddon. Robust 20th Century men—narrowly escaping the ubiquitous "time warp"—kill giant spiders, help pale nerds and their beautiful women emerge from underground, and retake the post World War III surface from troglodyte mutants.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil. Shiel 's The Purple Cloud. Buck Rogers In The 25th Century.

Mostly futuristic in appearance, but outside of the gleaming Utopian city lies apocalyptic ruins swarming with mutants. Dance Of The Dead. An episode of Masters of Horror directed by Tobe Hooper.

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It has a triple apocalyptic theme as it features a man made virus causing a zombie outbreak after World War 3. Day of the Daleks. A Dr Who story that also features alien invasion. Guerrillas from the future explain that they are attempting to kill someone because he caused an explosion at the peace conference, starting a series of wars that left humanity vulnerable to Dalek conquest.

An anime series by Hayao Miyazaki. Supermagnetic WMDs devastate Earth and causes virtually all land to be submerged underwater. The Girl from Tomorrow. Australian children's drama in which a girl from the 31st century after the Northern Hemisphere has been destroyed in the Great Disaster, later revealed to be a nuclear holocaust becomes stranded in the 20th century. In the sequel, Tomorrow's End , she and her friends fight to prevent history from being changed in such a way that the Southern Hemisphere is destroyed as well. CBS , about the residents of a small Kansas town which remains isolated in the aftermath of a series of nuclear attacks on America.

Made for TV movie that was designed to be a pilot for a post- Apocalyptic spin-off from the original Knight Rider. Masters of Science Fiction. Episode, A Clean Escape. An Anime series that takes place 10 billion years into the future, where mankind lusts for power, and children are forced into military duty.

A TV adaptation of a play by Marghanita Laski. Return to the Planet of the Apes. The Twilight Zone , numerous episodes, and its revivals. American civilization crumbles after a civil war pitting blacks against whites and a devastating earthquake. Series , first book , Out of the Ashes. The Book of Dave. Split between modern London and post-apocalyptic London where a new society and religion is based on the legacy of a cab driver. Brother in the Land. A Canticle for Leibowitz. Miller, Jr, Walter M.

Children of the Dust. The City of Ember. The Coming of the Horseclans. Followed by seventeen other books in the horseclans series. When a near-invincible army of artificially created soldiers - the flesh guard - falls into the hands of an untrustworthy power, continental Europe forms an alliance and invades Britain. The resulting carnage, involving poisonous electric gas, "humanite" atomic bombs, and the unfeeling march of the Flesh Guard, reduces whole cities and towns in Europe to smoking rubble.

In collaboration with Roger Zelazny. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Filmed as Blade Runner. Down to a Sunless Sea. Few Were Left [59]. Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre. Series , first book , co-author Barbera Siegel , Grade With two sequels projected, Huge underground oceans start leaking to the surface, lifting sea levels by thousands of metres over several decades.

Folk of the Fringe. The Gate to Women's Country. Earth threatened by Nuclear winter. Auther of The Perseid Collapse. The King Awakes [61]. Also author of The Empty Throne. The Last Children of Schewenborn. The Long Mynd [62]. Also author of Masters of the Fist. The Long Tomorrow [63]. Love in the Ruins.

Masters of the Fist [64]. Coauthor The Long Mynd. Pebble in the Sky. A later book, Robots and Empire gave a different explanation. Series , first book , The Breaking of Northwall A thousand years after a series of nuclear exchanges. Also predicting a great world war that ends with the vanishing of humanity.

Only a group of children survives and forms a strange new mankind. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick.

Set 10 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis , which escalated into nuclear war. The Shape of Things to Come. Predicting an extended world war fought with modern scientific weapons, societal upheaval, and the beginning of space travel. Filmed as Things to Come in Series , first book , Total War. The Third World War. There Will Be Time. This is the Way the World Ends. This Time of Darkness [65]. Series , first book, First. Series , first book Uglies. Pretties , Specials , and Extras. Series , first book , Novels and later anime movies , set ten thousand years after a nuclear war occurs in ,.

Series , first book , follows a former U. Air Force Thunderbirds pilot trying to restore a balkanized and largely disarmed United States of America while flying the last remaining F Fighting Falcon in existence. The World Ends in Hickory Hollow. The World Jones Made. Short story By Harlan Ellison. Short story By Arsen Darnay. Short story By Andrzej Ziemianski. By the Waters of Babylon. Short story By Eric Frank Russell.

Short story By Louise Lawrence. A scientist uses a time machine to travel to the future and film the results of a nuclear war in a bid to prevent it from happening. However, his actions could have serious repercussions for the mutated descendants of the human race. I Have No Mouth. Short story By Damon Knight. Let the Ants Try. Short story By Isaac Asimov. Not with a Bang. Short story By Philip K. Play By Marghanita Laski. There Will Come Soft Rains. Game from Fantasy Games Unlimited.

Game While seemingly caused by aliens, it is in fact human mistakes, breakdown and war that forges Auto Assault's apocalyptic world. Game by Atari Games. Game Also Earth The world is destroyed in and people settle on mars in Land of Devastation Template: Game for the Personal Computer by Reakktor Media.

These Ley Lines and Portals subsequently cause several natural and supernatural disasters. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Game from Game Designer's Workshop , set in a world where a Sino-Russian war degenerates into a limited nuclear conflict that eventually drags in Europe and America. Comic book Japanese manga and subsequent anime adaptations by Masamune Shirow.

Comic book Manga series contains post-apocalyptic elements, and takes place in a highly futuristic dystopian world. Gifts of wandering ice. Comic book Webcomic taking place during a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter. Song by the band Warrant on the "Dog Eat Dog" album depicts an earth devastated by war where life lives on only by artificial means. Song Series of concept albums depicts the end of life on Earth in due to, among other factors, a catastrophic nuclear war.

Poem by Edwin Muir. Deals with society's regression to pre Industrial Revolution conditions in the wake of a nuclear war. Chiisana Hoshi no Yume. Poem by Peter Porter , written in the style of a radio broadcast warning of an impending nuclear attack. Song adaptation of the above Porter poem written and recorded by the Scottish post-punk group the Scars.

List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

She is looking for her two favored things before they are gone, and makes friends with some people whose mutations make them more interesting than most. Ever Since the World Ended [70] [71]. Japanese film also known as Virus , directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The Seed of Man.

By Marco Ferreri Italian title: Il Seme dell'uomo [72]. British made movie in which a virus creates a plague of zombies, viewed entirely from the POV of a character's video camera. This film was made and completed before George A. Directed by Terry Gilliam. A Wind Named Amnesia. A mysterious plague has swept over the entire world, causing everyone to suffer from amnesia, leading to the collapse of civilization. Based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. Survival of the Dead. On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.

Directed by George Romero. A spin-off from the TV show Babylon 5. Masters of Horror episode directed by Tobe Hooper. Showtime cable television series, based on the comic of the same name. In the year , 15 years after a virus kills everyone over the age of puberty, the child survivors have grown up, living on the scraps of the old world. ITV show, about 3 people who lived after everyone else in England was turned to dust by a chemical that was accidentally released by a television presenter.

BBC series about the daily struggles of British survivors of a plague which kills most of the world population. BBC television series a remake of the 70's series of the same name. The New-Zealand TV series, that takes place in a near-future in which all the adults have been killed by a man-made Virus and the children have to survive on their own. Made for TV movie. A mutated virus created by a solar flare destroys virtually all of the human population.

One family has survived, and endeavors to travel across America to their family home. The Children of Men. In the wake of a devastating worldwide plague, a handful of artists transform the City of San Francisco, and fend off marauders with a touch of magic. The Day of the Triffids. Follows the progression of a new outbreak of Black Plague and the struggle to survive as society collapses. A Gift Upon the Shore. The Girl Who Owned a City. Five friends struggle to survive 20 years after the collapse of civilisation.

Post-Apocalyptic TV Shows 2015: An Update of What’s Coming this Summer and Fall

You can watch Season 1 on Amazon Instant here. The Strain is a unique twist on the zombie genre and airs on FX. It starts up again on July You can catch up on Season 1 on Amazon Instant here. Extant will begin its second season on CBS on July 1. We basically have two entities battling each other, one who wants to take over the world. This show is about a ship pulling humanity from the brink of extinction. This is the pre-apocalyptic show that you might not have heard about! It starts June 30 on CBS. The phenomenon is linked to a global threat against mankind….

I have to include this because I know everyone will be asking! The is not returning until , probably January. This is more about avoiding the apocalypse and how a town handles being hit by a potential one. The show will start mid-season on CW, so probably around the same time as The This one has also been renewed. Your email address will not be published.

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