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  2. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.

  3. Operation Vanguard - Wikipedia

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    Operation Vanguard is a military police joint task force (JTF) set up by the President of Ghana in 2017 to combat illegal mining, known as galamsey.Over the years, the practice has depleted Ghana's forest cover and polluted bodies of water due to the crude and unregulated nature of the mining process.

  4. Tales from Earthsea (film) - Wikipedia

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    Tales from Earthsea (ゲド戦記, Gedo Senki, lit. ' Ged's War Chronicles ') is a 2006 Japanese anime epic fantasy [2] film co-written and directed by Gorō Miyazaki in his directorial debut, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Mitsubishi and Toho, and distributed by the latter company.

  5. List of disaster films - Wikipedia

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    This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre.Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature.

  6. When Worlds Collide (1951 film) - Wikipedia

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    In the prologue, quotes from the Book of Genesis are shown and narrated, describing God's decision to wipe out humanity. Pilot David Randall flies top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr. Cole Hendron in the United States. Hendron, with the assistance of his daughter Joyce, confirms their worst fears ...

  7. The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Wikipedia

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    Title card from The Day the Earth Caught Fire showing the dried-up riverbed of the River Thames. The film holds an 86% rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. [19] British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "A smart piece of science fiction told through the eyes of Fleet Street journalists and showing a sharp eye for the London ...

  8. Flood myth - Wikipedia

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    [3] [b] In the Gilgamesh flood myth, the highest god, Enlil, decides to destroy the world with a flood because humans have become too noisy. The god Ea, who had created humans out of clay and divine blood, secretly warns the hero Utnapishtim of the impending flood and gives him detailed instructions for building a boat so that life may survive.

  9. This Is the End - Wikipedia

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    This Is the End is a 2013 American apocalyptic fantasy comedy film written, directed and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in their directorial debuts.It is a feature-length film adaptation of Rogen and Goldberg's short film Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse (2007), which was directed by Jason Stone, who serves as an executive producer on the film.