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  2. List of apocalyptic films - Wikipedia

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    The End of the World (1916) End of the World (1931) Deluge (1933) Things to Come (1936) Five (1951) When Worlds Collide (1951) Captive Women (1952) Robot Monster (1953) Day the World Ended (1955) World Without End (1956) The Lost Missile (1958) Teenage Caveman (1958) On the Beach (1959) The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

  3. 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.

  4. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The manga and anime series Dragon Ball Z (1989 debut) and Dragon Ball Super (2015 debut), sequels to Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, contain parallel timelines generated by time-travel to the past from an apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic future. 2 Cybernetic humans caused the mass extinction of roughly two-thirds of Earth's human population, and ...

  5. Dying Earth (genre) - Wikipedia

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    H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow – "Till A' the Seas" (1935) is a tale of the slow fading of human civilization and the extinction of all life on Earth as it draws closer to the Sun and its radiance on the surface becomes more intense. The story centers on a male protagonist named Ull, the last of his tribe, and his journey across lands ...

  6. Last Woman on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Last Woman on Earth (often referred to as The Last Woman on Earth, but it appeared without the word The in the film's title card) is a 1960 American science fiction film that was produced and directed by Roger Corman. It tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse, which appears to have wiped out all human life on earth. [1]

  7. Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia

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    If Mercury or a rogue planet of similar size were to collide with Earth, all life on Earth could be obliterated entirely: an asteroid 15 km wide is believed to have caused the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, whereas Mercury is 4,879 km in diameter. [135] The destabilization of Mercury's orbit is unlikely in the foreseeable future. [136]

  8. Encounters at the End of the World - Wikipedia

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    As Herzog speculates about alien scientists visiting a post-human Earth, there is a sequence shot in tunnels carved deep into the ice below South Pole station, where various trinkets and mementos, including a can of Russian caviar and a whole frozen sturgeon, have been placed in carved-out shelves in the walls and preserved by the extreme cold ...

  9. Childhood's End (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    In 2035, life on Earth resembles a pastoral idyll. Dr. Boyce leads a research institute for Karellen, at which Milo and his friend Rachel work, until the space program is ended and Milo has to leave. Boyce delivers samples of Earth's species for a zoo on the overlords’ planet. Ricky falls ill, allegedly from exposure to poisons on the ...