Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "destruction-of-planet"

1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness

Votes: 1,450,660 | Gross: $322.74M

2. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.

Director: Steven Caple Jr. | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez

Votes: 104,100 | Gross: $157.07M

3. Star Trek (2009)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy

Votes: 620,439 | Gross: $257.73M

4. Man of Steel (2013)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane

Votes: 812,205 | Gross: $291.05M

5. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace.

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson

Votes: 974,194 | Gross: $936.66M

6. Melancholia (2011)

R | 135 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård

Votes: 196,034 | Gross: $3.03M

7. Superman (1978)

PG | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando

Votes: 187,615 | Gross: $134.22M

8. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna

Votes: 197,028 | Gross: $41.19M

9. 2010 (1984)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban

Votes: 57,306 | Gross: $40.20M

10. Men in Black II (2002)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Agent J is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from K's past.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle

Votes: 403,939 | Gross: $190.42M

11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Director: Garth Jennings | Stars: Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel

Votes: 208,469 | Gross: $51.09M

12. Pandorum (2009)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue

Votes: 159,596 | Gross: $10.33M

13. Battlefield Earth (2000)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

It's the year 3000 A.D., and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their 'man-animals' are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.

Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper, Kim Coates

Votes: 83,122 | Gross: $21.47M

14. The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

PG | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

Director: Nelson Shin | Stars: Orson Welles, Robert Stack, Leonard Nimoy, Norman Alden

Votes: 41,963 | Gross: $5.85M

15. Titan A.E. (2000)

PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.

Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Stars: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Jim Breuer

Votes: 63,973 | Gross: $22.75M

16. Thundercats (1985–1989)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A team of humanoid cats fight evil in their adopted home world.

Stars: Bob McFadden, Larry Kenney, Earl Hammond, Lynne Lipton

Votes: 19,072

17. Star Trek: Generations (1994)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

With the help of long presumed dead Captain Kirk, Captain Picard must stop a deranged scientist willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter a space matrix.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Frakes

Votes: 87,074 | Gross: $75.67M

18. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008 Video)

R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.

Director: Edward Neumeier | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock, Stephen Hogan, Boris Kodjoe

Votes: 24,596

19. The Planets (2019)

59 min | Documentary

Welcome to the greatest story that's never been told. In a new, ground breaking series we'll be telling the story of the planets as never before.

Stars: Brian Cox, Fran Bagenal, John Grotzinger, Julie Webster

Votes: 3,850

20. Invasion Planet Earth (2019)

98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the death of his young daughter, Thomas Dunn is a man who has lost his faith. On the day he finds out his wife is pregnant again, aliens invade the Earth.

Director: Simon Cox | Stars: Simon Haycock, Lucy Drive, Julie Hoult, Danny Steele

Votes: 1,428

21. End of the World (1977)

PG | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.

Director: John Hayes | Stars: Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Dean Jagger

Votes: 1,206

22. Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When the Terran Confederation faces the possibility of humanity losing the war with the Kilrathi, Colonel Christopher Blair (Mark Hamill), who the Kilrathi have dubbed "The Heart of the Tiger", is summoned.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Jason Bernard

Votes: 849

23. Allegro non troppo (1976)

PG | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has ... See full summary »

Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay

Votes: 3,217

24. Planet of the Humans (2019)

100 min | Documentary

Planet of the Humans takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.

Director: Jeff Gibbs | Stars: Jeff Gibbs, David Joos, Kristin Zimmerman, J. Peter Lark

Votes: 3,334

25. Dirt! The Movie (2009)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary

The only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again.

Directors: Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow, Eleonore Dailly | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Logan, Vandana Shiva, Fritjof Capra

Votes: 507

26. Call of Life (2010)

60 min | Documentary

The first feature-length documentary film to fully investigate the growing threat to Earth's life-support systems from the loss of biodiversity. If current trends continue, scientists warn ... See full summary »

Director: Monte Thompson | Stars: Steven Beissinger, Sally Bingham, Ignacio Chapela, Peter Coyote

Votes: 38

27. Transformers: Zone (1990 Video)

TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Animation, Short, Action

Its a Transformer battle royale when a evil demon named Vullinjir recreates six Destron gestalts (Giant robots composed of smaller ones) and pits them against the Cybertron Micromasters ... See full summary »

Director: Hiromichi Matano | Stars: Yûsaku Yara, Kaneto Shiozawa, Eiko Yamada, Naoko Watanabe

Votes: 159

28. Aluna (2012)

Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Adventure

The leaders of of an ancient hidden civilization in South America want to show mankind how to avoid destroying the planet. They travel with an aging British film-maker and four hundred kilometres of gold thread to trace invisible connections in nature.

Director: Alan Ereira | Stars: Mama Manuel Coronado, Alan Ereira, Francisca Zarabata, Mama Shibulata Zarabata

Votes: 171

29. Fall and Winter (2013)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, History

A journey, reaching to the past to understand the origins of the catastrophic environmental transitions we now face. Over two years, director Matt Anderson traveled 16,000 miles to document... See full summary »

Director: Matt Anderson | Stars: Dean Blanchard, Grace Lee Boggs, Kevin Curole, Margaret Curole

Votes: 38

30. No Vacancy (2005)

90 min | Documentary

Global responses to the Human Population Explosion; impact on the environment and biodiversity.

Director: Michael Tobias | Stars: Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Kalpana Apte, Rofina Asuru, John Awoonor-Williams

Votes: 21

31. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984 Video Game)

Comedy, Sci-Fi

You are Arthur Dent, and you must survive the worst day of your life. For one thing, your house is being demolished. For another thing, so is the planet. Having found out your friend is an ... See full summary »

Votes: 92

32. Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (2011)

Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, News

The film delves into the heart of the growing environmental, humanitarian, and social crisis-overpopulation and the excessive consumption linked to it.

Director: Christophe Fauchere | Stars: Esraa Bani, Albert Bartlett, Lester Brown, Martha Campbell

Votes: 145

33. Deep Green (2010)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary

Based on years on intensive research, 'Deep Green' reveals the solutions to reverse man-made global warming in time. We can fix this - if we go deep green now.

Director: Matt Briggs | Stars: Matt Briggs, Lester Brown, Barbara Finamore, Edward Kjaer

Votes: 12

34. Dick Smith's Population Puzzle (2010)

67 min | Documentary

The film follows Dick Smith's public campaign against rapid population growth. It tests the propositions put forward in favour of a Big Australia. Can this popular entrepreneur persuade the nation to change its mind?

Director: Simon Nasht | Stars: Dick Smith, Tony Abbott, Mike Archer, Bob Birrell

Votes: 12

35. The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, History, News

The Crisis Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are ... See full summary »

Director: Dean Puckett | Stars: Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington

Votes: 203

36. EcoNews (1987– )

29 min | Documentary, News

Nancy Pearlman will select the topic, which the guest will then discuss. Topics related to the environment, ecology, wildlife, overpopulation, and similar subjects are covered.

Stars: Nancy Pearlman, Garrett Hardin, Tom Regan

37. World War III (1995 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

A study of the human population explosion and its impact on biodiversity and global ecosystems.

Director: Michael Tobias | Star: Michael Tobias

Votes: 10

38. Nous resterons sur Terre (2009)

87 min | Documentary

Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. "Here to Stay" takes an uncompromising look at Planet Earth today.

Directors: Pierre Barougier, Olivier Bourgeois | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, James Lovelock, Wangari Maathai, Edgar Morin

Votes: 42

39. RayForce (1994 Video Game)

E | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In the distant future, human governments construct a massive supercomputer called "Con-Human". Con-Human was designed to govern Earth's environmental systems as well as verifying nutrients ... See full summary »

Directors: Yukio Ishikawa, Tatsuo Nakamura

Votes: 12

40. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: Twilight (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

His memory crippled, Archer awakens years in the future, after the Xindi have reduced Earth to a cinder and the remnants of humanity have settled on a distant planet. Now, Archer learns that he may be the key to undoing this tragedy.

Director: Robert Duncan McNeill | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 2,150

41. Lexx (1996–2002)
Episode: White Trash (1999)

Not Rated | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Stanley is concerned someone else is on the Lexx and his suspicions are confirmed when a family of cannibalistic Golleans reveal themselves to the crew. The father of the family forces ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Bould | Stars: Brian Downey, Xenia Seeberg, Michael McManus, Maury Chaykin

Votes: 147

42. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: Legacy (2000)

Unrated | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Superman is brainwashed to believe he is the adopted son of Darkseid and now has orders to conquer Earth.

Director: Curt Geda | Stars: Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside

Votes: 440

43. Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000)
Episode: The Last Son of Krypton: Part I (1996)

Unrated | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Jor-El, unable to convince the Kryptonian government of the pending destruction of the planet, plans to save his son while Brainiac makes him a fugitive.

Director: Dan Riba | Stars: Christopher McDonald, Finola Hughes, Corey Burton, Tony Jay

Votes: 757

44. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1981)

TV-14 | 32 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

The story of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins when a 6-foot ape descendant named Arthur Dent is saved from the destruction of planet Earth thanks to Ford Prefect, who is in fact... See full summary »

Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, David Dixon, Joe Melia

Votes: 328

45. Arrow (2012–2020)
Episode: Starling City (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In the wake of discovering what his future holds, Oliver will find himself pit against his most challenging battle yet, one that will leave the multiverse hanging in the balance.

Director: James Bamford | Stars: Stephen Amell, David Ramsey, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy

Votes: 3,159