Peace On Earth
Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals.
Continue readingThreads (1984) – The GOAT
If you call yourself a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre and you haven’t seen Threads, then something is wrong with you. Luckily, I can help with that.
Continue readingLicking the hand which answered not with a caress—he died…
I came across this today, and really liked it. It’s one of the first (non-religious) examples of an apocalypse scenario in which the world devolves into war, famine and death.
Continue readingDon't Let the Cries of Doomsday Panic You
1962 Popular Mechanics article on the effects of a hypothetical nuclear war on the United States.
Continue readingThe Gun by Philip K. Dick
Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life … and the trespassers had wrecked that for all time. The return journey to pick up the treasure would be a cinch … they smiled. Published in 1952.
Continue readingTop 10 Post Apocalyptic Novels: Plagues and Pandemics from The Guilded Earlobe
This would be a great article, even if I wasn’t quoted in it. You can read the original post, the most recent in a series of posts about post apocalyptic literature and audiobooks, on The Guilded Earlobe.
Continue readingLife in Ruins – A Lecture by Dr Robert Macfarlane
This is one for all you fans of ruins, or post-apocalytic imagery – A lecture entitled Life in Ruins by Dr Robert Macfarlane.
Continue readingGood Will to Men (1955)
Hanna Barbera’s 1955 remake of 1939’s Peace On Earth featuring updated and even more destructive forms of warfare technology.
Continue readingVirus (Fukkatsu No Hi – Day of Resurrection) (1980)
A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction.
Continue readingWatched Glen and Randa
A few weeks ago, I was inspired by this post on the Post Apocalyptic Movie Mania blog to move Glen and Randa a little higher up on my Netflix queue. It took a few weeks for me to get to it, but it finally arrived, and I watched it tonight.
Continue readingLord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no divinity but that of God.
Continue readingHello, Tomorrow
To escape a world devastated by nuclear radiation, Mankind has retreated underground, but the Final War still rages on. Part of the Dimension X anthology series.
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