The Peoria Plague
Recorded in the early 1970’s by WUHN radio in Peoria, Illinois, The Peoria Plague is an audio dramatization of a zombie outbreak presented through a series of fictional news casts.
Power of Decsion – US Air Force Dramatization of Nuclear War (1957)
Unseen for years and made public for the first time by the National Security Archive, the film depicts the U.S. Air Force’s implementation of war plan “Quick Strike” in response to a Soviet surprise attack against the United States.
Driving X by Gwendolyn Clare – Escape Pod Audio Fiction
Escape Pod is a long running podcast featuring Creative Commons-licensed audio narrations of great science-fiction short stories. Driving X by Gwendolyn Clare was featured in episode 319, and can be described as both dystopian and post-apocalyptic, and is definitely worth a listen.
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.
Top 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.
Good 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.
Virus (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.
Watched 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.
Lord 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.
Hello, 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.
Just Finished Stephen King's The Long Walk
After the disappointment of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (I really enjoyed all his other stuff), I wanted to read something that I knew I’d enjoy. So I dusted off an old favorite (at least metaphorically, it was an ebook) and fired up Stephen King’s The Long Walk.
At Midnight on the 31st of March
A year in the life of a small town which finds itself struggling to survive when the rest of civilization mysteriously vanishes overnight. Broadcast 31 March 1943 on NBC’s Author’s Playhouse anthology series.