Added by The Flagship

on 18 Jan 2009 07:37

Vote!

3273 Views No comments

Post-apocalyptic: War

Sort by:

Showing 1-50 of 51

Next » 1« Prev

6.8

5.4

1. 2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)

177

6.5

2. A Boy and His Dog (1975)

The Flagship's rating:

1287

7.8

3. Akira (1988)

The Flagship's rating:

205

6.9

4. Appleseed (2004)

185

5.4

5.3

5. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

3.8

6. The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)

241

5.8

6.1

7. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

1342

6.5

6.8

8. The Book of Eli (2010)

The Flagship's rating:

5.9

9. Captive Women (1952)

227

6.4

6.1

10. Casshern (2004)

The Flagship's rating:

5.4

11. Damnation Alley (1977)

985

7.6

7.7

12. Delicatessen (1991)

The Flagship's rating:

5.5

5.2

13. Day the World Ended (1955)

4.9

14. Def-Con 4 (1985)

5.6

4.8

15. Endgame (1983)

1677

7.1

7.6

16. Equilibrium (2002)

The Flagship's rating:

2306

8.3

8.6

17. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Wo... (1964)

4.4

3.8

18. Fist of the North Star (1995)

6.4

5.9

19. The Handmaid's Tale (1990)

6.1

5.7

20. Hardware (1990)

5.8

5.2

21. Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

2.3

22. Invasion U.S.A. (1952)

892

4.9

5.2

23. Judge Dredd (1995)

The Flagship's rating:

6.9

6.8

24. Le Dernier Combat

1313

6.8

25. Mad Max (1979)

The Flagship's rating:

389

5.5

5.7

26. The Postman (1997)

The Flagship's rating:

835

7.4

7.6

27. The Road Warrior (1981)

The Flagship's rating:

803

6.1

28. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

The Flagship's rating:

6.3

29. Malevil (1981)

1107

8.1

30. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

The Flagship's rating:

1268

7.5

31. Planet of the Apes (1968)

The Flagship's rating:

3.7

5.6

32. Radioactive Dreams (1985)

1307

7.1

7.3

33. The Road (2009)

7.1

6.5

34. Six-String Samurai (1998)

5.4

4.6

35. Steel Dawn (1987)

2.7

2.8

36. Teenage Caveman (1958)

4264

7.3

8.1

37. The Terminator (1984)

The Flagship's rating:

4165

7.7

8.6

38. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Flagship's rating:

2384

5.8

6.4

39. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

The Flagship's rating:

1648

6.2

6.7

40. Terminator: Salvation (2009)

The Flagship's rating:

6.6

7.1

41. Testament (1983)

6.2

6.7

42. Things to Come (1936)

290

7.4

7.5

43. The Time Machine (1960)

4.4

2.1

44. Warrior of the Lost World (1983)

6.4

4.2

45. The New Barbarians (1983)

120

7.4

7.7

46. When the Wind Blows (1986)

108

6.3

6.2

47. Wizards (1977)

6.9

48. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

6.5

5.9

49. World Without End (1956)

6.3

3.7

50. Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)

The Post-apocalyptic genre is concerned with the destruction of civilisation after a catastrophic event. Mass human extinction has been prophesied to occur in many different ways by science-fiction writers and theorists.

This list focuses mass extinction via War.

Mutually Assured Destruction: A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. The strategy is a form of deterrence, with both sides attempting to avoid the possibility of nuclear annihilation.

War has always been devastating. Since the advent of the Atomic Bomb, it has been regarded as an icon of total destruction and devastation, and is thought of as the instrument most likely to bring about the destruction of life on earth.

This list presents films which deal with the aftermath of human wars, though the slant is heavily biased in the direction of mutually assured destruction via nuclear attack.

Historic Bombs:
Little Boy
Target: Hiroshima
Power: 18 Kilotons
Death Toll: 140,000 immediately.

Fat Man
Target: Nagasaki
Power: 21 Kilotons
Death Toll: 40,000 immediately

Tsar Bomba
Target: Novaya Zemlya (Test)
Power: 50 Megatons
Death Toll: N/A