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Professor Adam Roberts explores our many different cultural visions of the end of the world - likely and unlikely, mundane and bizarre - and what they say about how we see ourselves and our societies. What is it is that we are really afraid of? An uncaring universe; an uncontrollable environment; the human capacity for destruction; or just our own, personal apocalypse - our mortality?
2) Rubikon
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station's "algae symbiosis system."
3) Snowpiercer
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Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six friends are trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events that devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.
5) Miracle mile
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day Harry falls in love with a young woman named Julie, he also discovers that there are only seventy minutes until a nuclear attack.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever. Based on his own graphic novel, a darkly comic, mind-bending fantasy.
7) Molly
Publisher
Artsploitation Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
In a barren landscape ravished by war, Molly, a super-powered young woman, roams the violent post-apocalyptic landscape, armed only with a bow and arrow, to confront the dangers around her. When a sadistic ringmaster who run an underground fight club hears of her supernatural abilities he sends his sociopathic marauders to capture her and make her a star attraction in his cage fights to the death.
8) Stryker
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Stryker joins forces with a group of Amazons to rescue a woman being held and tortured by marauders because she knows the location of one of the remaining water springs on the planet.
9) I am a hero
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirty-five-year-old assistant manga artist Hideo Suzuki leads an unsatisfying, tedious life. To cope with his day-to-day stresses, he fantasizes scenarios where he is overcome with confidence and bouts of courage. But that's just what they are: fantasies. And yet, when a virus outbreak hits Japan turning the infected into mindless cannibals, Hideo is forced back to reality.
11) A quiet place
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
A family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival.
12) The postman
Author
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a catastrophic war destroys the government, a traveler finds mail in an old mail bag and starts delivering it.
13) On the beach
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world.
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