Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "extinction-event"

1. Don't Look Up (2021)

R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett

Votes: 602,143

2. Greenland (2020)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Thriller

A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.

Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn

Votes: 134,732

3. War of the Worlds (2019– )

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.

Stars: Léa Drucker, Gabriel Byrne, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant

Votes: 17,979

4. 65 (2023)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.

Directors: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods | Stars: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King

Votes: 88,143

5. Dinosaur (2000)

PG | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 67,262 | Gross: $137.75M

6. Death Stranding (2019 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Deliveryman Sam Porter must travel across a ravaged wasteland and reconnect the city states of America formed after a mysterious apocalyptic event dubbed 'death stranding' left the world in ruins and plagued by supernatural tar creatures.

Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Troy Baker

Votes: 11,147

7. Into the Night (II) (2020–2021)

TV-MA | 35 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When radiation from the sun causes a global disaster on Earth, survivors on an overnight flight from Brussels race from city to city trying to stay ahead of the sun's rays by remaining in the cover of night.

Stars: Pauline Etienne, Laurent Capelluto, Mehmet Kurtulus, Babetida Sadjo

Votes: 36,167

8. The War of the Worlds (2019)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi

In London during the Edwardian era, George and Amy's attempt to start a life together is interrupted by a Martian invasion of Earth.

Stars: Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle, Rupert Graves

Votes: 10,040

9. Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A follow-up to the film Iron Sky (2012) in which Nazis plan to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the moon.

Director: Timo Vuorensola | Stars: Lara Rossi, Vladimir Burlakov, Kit Dale, Julia Dietze

Votes: 11,760

10. Southland Tales (2006)

R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua

Votes: 40,643 | Gross: $0.28M

11. Horizon Zero Dawn (2017 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a primitive tribal world where strange, monstrous, animalistic machines roam the wilderness, a brave young female warrior goes on a quest to learn the truth about her mysterious origin and the state the world is in.

Director: Mathijs de Jonge | Stars: Ashly Burch, Laura van Tol, Ava Potter, JB Blanc

Votes: 18,652

12. 3022 (2019)

R | 91 min | Sci-Fi

A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awake to find Earth has suffered an extinction level event.

Director: John Suits | Stars: Omar Epps, Kate Walsh, Angus Macfadyen, Jorja Fox

Votes: 5,977

13. Crusade (1999)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set right after the events of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999), a team of soldiers and scientists led by Capt. Matthew Gideon have five years to find a cure for an alien plague decimating Earth.

Stars: Gary Cole, Tracy Scoggins, Daniel Dae Kim, David Allen Brooks

Votes: 5,454

14. Aftermath (2016)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The Copeland family battle for survival when civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes, a plague - and the rise of supernatural creatures.

Stars: James Tupper, Anne Heche, Levi Meaden, Taylor Hickson

Votes: 4,513

15. Racing Extinction (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, News

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton

Votes: 8,196

16. Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real (2004 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Documentary, Fantasy

An imaginative blend of adventure and nature special that purports to investigate the discovery of a dragon's corpse in modern-day Romania. A British scientific team attempts to understand the creature's unique capabilities.

Director: Justin Hardy | Stars: Ian Holm, Patrick Stewart, Paul Hilton, Katrine Bach

Votes: 1,146

17. The Arrivals (2008 Video)

499 min | Documentary

This Series Explores the Revelations in World Religions Regarding the Arrivals of the Antichrist Dajjal, Imam Al-Mahdi, and The Second Coming of The Christ. A Work Inspired by Hashemsfilms ... See full summary »

Directors: Achernahr, Noreagaa | Stars: Noreagaa, Mahmoud Abbas, Abdullah II King Of Jordan, Raya Abirached

Votes: 170

18. Terminal Virus (1995 TV Movie)

R | 74 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

It has been 23 years since a world war during which combatants unleashed a lab-created virus that has destroyed the fun of life. Civilization has broken down into forcibly celibate, warring... See full summary »

Director: Dan Golden | Stars: James Brolin, Bryan Genesse, Craig Judd, Richard Lynch

Votes: 187

19. Endgame 2050 (2020)

93 min | Documentary

Humanity has backed itself into an ecological endgame as we approach the year 2050. Featuring Moby and prominent scientists, ENDGAME 2050 lays out the reality that, unless we act urgently now, we are hastening our own destruction.

Director: Sofia Pineda Ochoa | Stars: Sofia Pineda Ochoa, Moby, Paul Ehrlich, Boris Worm

Votes: 312

20. Animal Armageddon (2009– )

45 min | Documentary, History

This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.

Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel

Votes: 215

21. Network E.L.E. (2020 Video Game)

E | Animation, Action, Adventure

NASA exploration pilot Myorah Strycharz must travel an abandoned city on Planet Mercury and recover four Mercury-980 single board Space-VPX chips to survive, before the harsh deadly radiation kills her, or before she runs out of oxygen.

Director: Aeneas Middleton | Star: Aeneas Middleton

22. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: Consider Her Ways (1964)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A woman awakens in a dystopian society formed after the extinction of all men where women are sorted at birth into one of four social castes - Workers, Mothers (incubators), Servitors and Doctors. She rebels against being just a mother.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Barrie, Gladys Cooper, Robert H. Harris

Votes: 445

23. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Patient Zero (2001)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Colonel Beckett goes back in time to poison a physician who unintentionally spread a global pandemic. When the traveler returns to the future, nothing has changed. Though haunted by the ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Michael Rooker, Tanya Allen, Laurie Murdoch, Gillian Barber

Votes: 324

24. American Dad! (2005– )
Episode: Brave Noob World (2020)

TV-14 | 21 min | Animation, Comedy

Stan's CIA team must take out a North Korean general at the Overwatch (2016) world tournament with the help of Steve, who thinks they are on a bonding trip, or the world will end. The rest of the family gets trapped in the stairway.

Directors: Jansen Yee, Ron Hughart, Brent Woods | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane

Votes: 418

25. Mega Disasters (2006–2008)
Episode: Comet Storm (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary

13,000 years ago, a large comet exploded over eastern Canada unleashing a mass of burning fragments that ignited a mega storm of fire spreading for thousands of miles. Nearly every living ... See full summary »

Stars: J.V. Martin, Roger Tilling

Votes: 6

26. A Perfect Planet (2021)
Episode: Humans (2021)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary

Humans are changing our planet so rapidly, it's affecting earth's life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.

Director: Nick Shoolingin-Jordan | Stars: David Attenborough, Israfeel Ahamed, Oliver Crofts, Asha De Vos

Votes: 295

27. The End Is Nye (2022– )
Episode: One Million Seconds (2022)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, History

Bill Nye informs of the probability that interstellar debris from an errant comet may cause a global calamity, changing how survivors of the event live decades into the future. Early detection and planetary defense theories explored.

Director: Brannon Braga | Stars: Bill Nye, Deena Aziz, Kwasi Songui, Seth MacFarlane

Votes: 33

28. Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
OTC Narcan Approved, DeSantis & 1A, Media Causes All Our Problems (2023 Podcast Episode)

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29. The Tom Woods Show (2013– )
Artificial Intelligence: Promise and Perils (2023 Podcast Episode)

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Stars: Tom Woods, Steve Patterson

30. One Strange Rock (2018)
Episode: Storm (2018)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary

A portrayal of how Earth was born in a cosmic storm and shaped by violence.

Director: Nat Sharman | Stars: Will Smith, Nicole Stott, Michael Massimino, Jerry Linenger

Votes: 434

31. One Strange Rock (2018)
Episode: Escape (2018)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary

Astronaut Chris Hadfield believes the only chance for human survival is to escape from Earth and build a space colony, but there are real barriers.

Director: Graham Booth | Stars: Will Smith, Chris Hadfield, Ty Bowen, Iain Kerr

Votes: 300

32. One Strange Rock (2018)
Episode: Survival (2018)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary

The story of how life on Earth has evolved, becoming lethal for life to thrive.

Directors: Christopher Riley, Nick Shoolingin-Jordan | Stars: Will Smith, Jerry Linenger, Roger Smith, Mae C. Jemison

Votes: 329

33. Room 104 (2017–2020)
Episode: Rogue (2019)

TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An apocalyptic event caused by a rogue planet has doomed Earth. A young girl on the run from her crazy father befriends a pregnant psychic woman who tells her about a safe place where they can hide.

Director: Jenée LaMarque | Stars: Iyana Halley, Catalina Sandino Moreno, James Babson

Votes: 200