Aliens show up to take over the planet and lay rubble to Earth’s major cities and iconic monuments. But never fear, Will Smith is in this film, and the prince of the box office is incapable of letting space invaders get fresh with our planet.
Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse
From movies about nuclear holocaust to films of flesh-eating zombies, here is a selection that may help prepare you for the end of the world
Independence Day, 1996
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Goodbye Earth
- The Last Man on Earth, 1964
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964
- Escape from New York, 1981
- The Road Warrior, 1981
- Delicatessen, 1991
- 12 Monkeys, 1995
- Independence Day, 1996
- The Postman, 1997
- Waterworld, 1995
- Deep Impact, 1998
- Armageddon, 1998
- 28 Days Later, 2002
- Reign of Fire, 2002
- The Day After Tomorrow, 2004
- An Inconvenient Truth, 2006
- Children of Men, 2006
- I Am Legend, 2007
- Zombieland, 2009
- Melancholia, 2011
- The Hunger Games, 2012