Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ecological-disaster"

1. WALL·E (2008)

G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard

Votes: 1,201,176 | Gross: $223.81M

2. Soylent Green (1973)

PG | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors

Votes: 70,598 | Gross: $7.92M

3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 129,266 | Gross: $78.91M

4. The Midnight Sky (2020)

PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall

Votes: 89,480

5. The Bay (II) (2012)

R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Will Rogers, Kristen Connolly, Kether Donohue, Frank Deal

Votes: 29,640 | Gross: $0.03M

6. Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)

PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Teenager Jesse becomes reunited with Willy two years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Francis Capra, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Votes: 19,587 | Gross: $30.08M

7. TC 2000 (1993)

R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Somewhere in an apocalyptic future, where the rich live underground and the poor are left to fend for themselves on the surface by forming gangs, corrupt members of an underground security force plot to destroy the surface.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Billy Blanks, Bolo Yeung, Jalal Merhi, Bobbie Phillips

Votes: 1,549

8. Neon City (1991)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.

Director: Monte Markham | Stars: Michael Ironside, Vanity, Lyle Alzado, Valerie Wildman

Votes: 1,248

9. Salt and Fire (2016)

98 min | Thriller

A scientist blames the head of a large company for an ecological disaster in South America. But when a volcano begins to show signs of erupting, they must unite to avoid a disaster.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon, Gael García Bernal, Volker Zack

Votes: 2,993

10. Visitor of a Museum (1989)

136 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum ... See full summary »

Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Viktor Mikhaylov, Vera Mayorova, Vadim Lobanov, Irina Rakshina

Votes: 1,366

11. Z.P.G. (1972)

PG | 97 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Concerned with population over-growth, the Earth government bans, under the penalty of death, all pregnancies but one couple decides to risk having a real baby rather than legally adopt a cyborg child.

Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento

Votes: 1,579

12. Made in U.S.A. (1987)

R | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Two misfit best friends, Dar and Tuck, leave their dying coal-mining town with only one goal in mind - to reach sunny California and hook up with some beach babes. On the road, they meet gun-crazy outlaw Annie, and she takes over.

Director: Ken Friedman | Stars: Judith Baldwin, Lori Singer, Marji Martin, Adrian Pasdar

Votes: 523

13. The Night the World Exploded (1957)

Not Rated | 64 min | Sci-Fi

Dr. Conway has perfected a machine that predicts earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. A computer analysis determines that the entire world would explode within a little more than 28 days.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin, Raymond Greenleaf

Votes: 750

14. Walden (2021)

105 min

After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan.

Directors: Ian Rickson, Liz Clare | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Fehinti Balogun, Lydia Wilson

Votes: 61

15. The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020)

105 min | Documentary

Exposes how companies are desperately rebranding as socially responsible - and how that threatens democratic freedoms.

Directors: Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan | Stars: Anjali Appadurai, Chris Barrett, Heidi Boghosian, Wendy Brown

Votes: 647

16. NYC: Tornado Terror (2008 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

What appears to be harmless little whirlwinds and dust devils turns out to be a precursor to something deadlier and ends up threatening New York City's very existence.

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Sebastian Spence, Jerry Wasserman, Winston Rekert

Votes: 1,303

17. Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

107 min | Documentary

A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

Director: Hubert Sauper | Stars: Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese, Raphael Tukiko Wagara, Dimond Remtulia, Marcus Nyoni

Votes: 5,663 | Gross: $0.20M

18. Amazon (1990)

R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama

Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and ... See full summary »

Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio

Votes: 561

19. Seeds of Destruction (2011 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc all over earth.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Stefanie von Pfetten, Jesse Moss, Luisa d'Oliveira

Votes: 829

20. Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama

The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: John Heard, Bob Gunton, Mark Metcalf, Bruce Gray

Votes: 288

21. Man (2012 Video)

4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

500,000 years ago, the modern man appears. He treats the animals and nature as a consumer, with frivolity and cruelty, and pridefully turns the world into a dumpster. However, someone is watching.

Director: Steve Cutts

Votes: 1,152

22. Crude (2009)

Unrated | 105 min | Documentary

The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.

Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Dan Ashley, Pablo Fajardo, Kent Robertson, German Yanez

Votes: 868 | Gross: $0.17M

23. In Vitro (2019)

28 min | Short, Sci-Fi

'In Vitro' is an otherworldly rumination on memory, history, place and identity set in Bethlehem decades after an eco-disaster.

Directors: Søren Lind, Larissa Sansour | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Walaa Eltiti, Yazeed Faruja

Votes: 192

24. The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)

87 min | Documentary, Comedy

Troublemaking duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, posing as their industrious alter-egos, expose the people profiting from Hurricane Katrina, the faces behind the environmental disaster in Bhopal, and other shocking events.

Directors: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr | Stars: Reggie Watts, Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Richard Ebeling

Votes: 5,207 | Gross: $0.19M

25. Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary

Renowned cult film director John Waters narrates this quirky exploration of the Salton Sea, the massive Southern California lake that was created by accident a century ago, became a popular... See full summary »

Directors: Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer | Stars: Sonny Bono, John Waters, Norm Niver, Petre Melvin

Votes: 695 | Gross: $0.05M

26. Nach uns die Sintflut (1996 TV Movie)

90 min | Thriller

A Greenpeace expedition ship in the arctic anticipates an environmental catastrophe. An arctic glacier as large as France will soon break down into the ocean producing a flood wave one of ... See full summary »

Director: Sigi Rothemund | Stars: Leslie Malton, Peter von Strombeck, Robert Stadlober, Nina Petri

Votes: 39

27. Preludnenie vs. trvalá udrzatelnost (2018)

18 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

What consequences overpopulation brings? What is ecological footprint, carrying capacity and population momentum? What are the results of green technology, futuristic architecture projects,... See full summary »

Director: Peter Kralovic | Star: Peter Kralovic

Votes: 6

28. After the Flood (2009)

14 min | Short, Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic world a girl disguised as a boy lives alone in abandoned missile silos guarding her invaluable freshwater spring, until a roaming gang of armed men arrives.

Director: Torkjell Alistair Stromme | Stars: Matthew Austin, Mike Facherty, Teresa Garratty, Tim J. Henley

29. Five Great Weather Disasters (1996 TV Movie)

48 min | Documentary

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Stars: Jay Barnes, Mike Bono, Jim Cantore, Charles Chappell

30. View (1984)

9 min | Documentary, Short

Dehumanized landscapes of coalfields in central Poland are terrifying places of environmental disaster. Is there any hope for change?

Director: Jacek Blawut

31. S.O.S. Amazonas: Apokalypse im Regenwald (2019 TV Movie)

54 min | Documentary

Large uncontrolled fires and flames have severely damaged the Amazon rainforests of Brazil in the summer of 2019 and destroyed countless trees. The main cause of the fires seems to be the ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Knechtel | Stars: Maria Alves dos Santos, Elvenicio Anunciação dos Santos, Tasso Azevedo, Paulo Da Silva Bezerra

Votes: 9

32. Black Tide (1990 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

An ecological and cultural post-mortem on the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska.

Director: Michael Tobias | Star: Christopher Reeve

33. Syväjäädytetty opettaja (1971 TV Movie)

38 min | Family, Sci-Fi

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Director: Ulpu Tolonen | Stars: Kari Kihlström, Ensio Sallinen, Maija-Liisa Pohjola, Birgit Tähkänen

Votes: 41

34. The Life & Times of Tim (2008–2012)
Episode: The Smug Chiropractor/Corporate Disaster (2012)

TV-MA | 29 min | Animation, Comedy

The Boss invites Tim to be the 'token white boy'; after an ecological disaster involving Omnicorp, the company publicist chooses Tim to be the face of their apology.

Director: Steve Dildarian | Stars: Steve Dildarian, M.J. Otto, Nick Kroll, Matt Johnson

Votes: 46

35. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Ocean Invaders (2022)

TV-PG | Documentary

In the Atlantic, the lionfish is an invasive species with no predator to keep it in check. Another invasive species, the Asian giant hornet is featured.

Director: Jeff Boedeker | Stars: Carole Baldwin, Alexa Bryant, Tico Christiaan, Ruthie Danielson

Votes: 52

36. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Super Bowl Begins with 'The Black National Anthem', and It's an Utter Disgrace (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Star: Matt Walsh

37. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Poisons Pour into Our Water Supply While the Biden Administration Focuses on Identity Politics (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Star: Matt Walsh

38. An Optimist's Guide to the Planet (2024– )
Episode: Regenerate (2024)

48 min | Documentary

Nikolaj discovers innovative and inspiring initiatives that could help the Earth.

Director: Mark Stevenson | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Karin Sugiura

Votes: 6

39. Max Steel (2013–2015)
Episode: Gone Fishin' (2013)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Toxzon aggressively poisons the world's oceans with radioactive goo but offers to stop the toxic onslaught if his pet Fishy is returned.

Directors: Gino Nichele, Logan McPherson | Stars: Kathleen Barr, Brian Dobson, Michael Dobson, Andrew Francis

Votes: 19