The Last Man and Impact
In this 2021 satirical film, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play scientists ignored by politicians and media while a comet hurtles toward Earth.
What is Don't Look Up?
This 2023 historical drama by Christopher Nolan follows the man who helped create the atomic bomb—an invention that made humanity capable of ending itself.
What is Oppenheimer?
In this 1999 sci-fi action classic, humans live in a simulated reality created by AI, while their real bodies are harvested for energy—a clear sign the world has already ended.
What is The Matrix?
This 2002 British horror film directed by Danny Boyle begins with a virus outbreak that turns people into rage-fueled killers, leaving London eerily empty and civilization in shambles.
What is 28 Days Later?
This 2015 reboot directed by George Miller throws viewers into a desert wasteland where water and fuel are scarce, and civilization has collapsed into chaos.
What is Mad Max: Fury Road?
Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck take space drills to the next level in this 1998 blockbuster where NASA recruits oil drillers to stop an extinction-level asteroid.
What is Armageddon?
This 1964 Cold War satire directed by Stanley Kubrick warns of nuclear annihilation with dark humor, rogue generals, and a doomsday machine that can't be stopped once triggered.
What is Dr. Strangelove?
This 1984 James Cameron film features a time-traveling cyborg assassin sent from a future where machines have nearly wiped out humanity.
What is The Terminator?
Based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy, this bleak 2009 film follows a father and son journeying through a gray, ash-covered world after an unspecified apocalypse.
What is The Road?
In this 2004 disaster epic starring Dennis Quaid and a baby Jake Gyllenhaal, global climate disruption brings sudden ice age conditions, massive storms, and tidal waves in a matter of days.
What is The Day after Tomorrow?
This 2007 post-apocalyptic thriller stars Will Smith as the last immune man in New York after a genetically re-engineered virus wipes out most of humanity.
What is I Am Legend?
In this 1968 sci-fi film, a crew of astronauts lands on a planet ruled by apes—only to learn it’s actually a post-nuclear Earth.
What is Planet of the Apes?
In this 1968 visual sci-fi masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, a rogue AI named HAL 9000 suggests that artificial intelligence may lead to humanity's doom—beginning in space.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
This 2011 thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh portrays the global spread of a deadly virus and society’s unraveling in real time. Gwyneth Paltrow's character is Patient Zero.
What is Contagion?
This 2017 sci-fi satire starring Matt Damon imagines a world where people shrink themselves to reduce consumption, but the real threat is the slow ecological collapse no one shrunk small enough to fix.
What is Downsizing?
This 2015–2018 FOX comedy series stars Will Forte as a man who believes he’s the only survivor of a virus that wiped out humanity—until he finds out he’s not alone.
What is The Last Man on Earth?
The 1954 Japanese original of this monster movie isn’t just about a giant lizard—it’s a metaphor for nuclear destruction unleashed by human weapons testing.
What is Godzilla?
In this 2021 animated film, a dysfunctional family becomes Earth's last hope when smart devices turn against humans in a tech uprising.
What is The Mitchells vs. The Machines?
Set in 2027, this 2006 dystopian drama imagines a world where humans have mysteriously become infertile, and society crumbles as hope for the future vanishes.
What is Children of Men?
In this 1973 film that was the first mainstream movie to introduce global warming and is set in a dying, overpopulated future, Charlton Heston learns the horrifying truth about the titular food product: It’s made of people.
What is Soylent Green?
Released in the same year as Armageddon and starring Téa Leoni and Morgan Freeman, this 1998 disaster film takes a more emotional approach as scientists try to prevent a comet from striking Earth.
What is Deep Impact?
In this 1951 sci-fi classic, an alien named Klaatu visits Earth with a robot enforcer to warn humans that their violent ways, especially nuclear weapons, could get them annihilated.
What is The Day the Earth Stood Still?
This groundbreaking 1927 German silent film imagines a futuristic dystopia where class divisions and rebellion threaten to bring society to ruin. Jeff screened it with his TOK students years ago and they hated it.
What is Metropolis?
In this 2008 adaptation of a José Saramago novel, a city is overtaken by an epidemic, exposing how quickly humanity can descend into chaos and brutality. Heather Hilton used to teach it.
What is Blindness?
In this 2013 Bong Joon-ho thriller, the last survivors of a climate catastrophe circle the frozen Earth aboard a train locked in a rigid class system.
What is Snowpiercer?