Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "meteor-impact"

1. Annihilation (I) (2018)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong

Votes: 362,030 | Gross: $32.73M

2. 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: 602,498

3. Moonfall (2022)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer

Votes: 99,643 | Gross: $19.06M

4. Armageddon (1998)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler

Votes: 451,100 | Gross: $201.57M

5. Life (I) (2017)

R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.

Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada

Votes: 254,179 | Gross: $30.23M

6. Deep Impact (1998)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 190,517 | Gross: $140.46M

7. Superman Returns (2006)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Superman returns to Earth after spending five years in space examining his homeworld Krypton. But he finds things have changed while he was gone, and he must once again prove himself important to the world.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden

Votes: 291,464 | Gross: $200.08M

8. 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: 88,222

9. 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: 67,283 | Gross: $137.75M

10. Color Out of Space (2019)

Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.

Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight

Votes: 56,319

11. Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

PG | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Scrat's acorn sends an asteroid to Earth, the Herd must find a way to stop the asteroid from hitting Earth with the help of a returning friend.

Directors: Michael Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu | Stars: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Chris Wedge

Votes: 74,957 | Gross: $64.06M

12. Risen (2021)

109 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area.

Director: Eddie Arya | Stars: Zahlee Moore, Izzy Bridger, Lily Brown Griffiths, Dominic Stone

Votes: 3,200

13. Space Sweepers (2021)

TV-MA | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set in the year 2092 and follows the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory. When they discover a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal.

Director: Sung-hee Jo | Stars: Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu, Yoo Hae-jin

Votes: 28,728

14. Riverworld (2003 TV Movie)

86 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Hale, an American astronaut dies and is reincarnated with other persons who have lived throughout all of human history and end up on a mysterious planet called 'Riverworld'. The humans are ... See full summary »

Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Brad Johnson, Karen Holness, Emily Lloyd, Jeremy Birchall

Votes: 2,664

15. Meteor (1979)

PG | 108 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith

Votes: 8,222

16. Early Man (2018)

PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall

Votes: 23,822 | Gross: $8.27M

17. Battle Queen 2020 (2001)

R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi

After a civilization is all but wiped out by a comet, evil forces take advantage of the weak. A powerful woman fights back for the sake of the vulnerable.

Director: Daniel D'Or | Stars: Julie Strain, Jeff Wincott, Zerha Leverman, Brian Frank

Votes: 984

18. Without Warning (1994 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Sci-Fi

3 fragments of an asteroid hit USA, China and France. The events are covered by TV news reports. More meteors come. Is it natural events or alien aggression?

Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Sander Vanocur, Jane Kaczmarek, Bree Walker, Dwier Brown

Votes: 1,495

19. The Color Out of Space (2010)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A boy, looking for his missing father, travels to Germany and uncovers a haunting legacy that a meteorite left behind in the area. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Color Out of Space."

Director: Huân Vu | Stars: Paul Dorsch, Jürgen Heimüller, Ingo Heise, Philipp Jacobs

Votes: 1,766

20. Post Impact (2004)

R | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After a meteor strike starts a new ice age, a group of survivors tries to find a device that could give mankind new hope

Director: Christoph Schrewe | Stars: Dean Cain, Bettina Zimmermann, Joanna Taylor, Nigel Bennett

Votes: 2,457

21. Project A-Ko (1986)

Unrated | 86 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A plucky, super-powered redhead finds herself saving her crybaby best friend from an amorous, bikini armor-clad classmate at their new school and aliens seeking to bring her home.

Directors: Katsuhiko Nishijima, Shigeru Morikawa | Stars: Miki Itô, Emi Shinohara, Michie Tomizawa, Julia Braams

Votes: 1,477

22. Last Day of the Dinosaurs (2010 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 66 min | Documentary, Animation, History

Proposes a minute-by-minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world.

Directors: Richard Dale, Tim Goodchild, Mark Hedgecoe | Star: Bill Mondy

Votes: 554

23. The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)

78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

Jeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life, but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Saine | Stars: Kyle Davis, Devin McGinn, Matt Bauer, Honor Bliss

Votes: 1,910

24. Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982 TV Movie)

95 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil emperor Ming the Merciless.

Stars: Robert Ridgely, Diane Pershing, Bob Holt, David Opatoshu

Votes: 373

25. Simulation (I) (2019)

24 min | Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An advanced alien civilization builds a simulated reality where infinite beings, including humans, are imprisoned.

Director: Hashem Al-Ghaili | Stars: Christopher Jan Busse, Bruce A. Woolley, Jeff Hallman, Bianca Kriel

Votes: 234

26. Meteorites (2018)

85 min | Drama, Romance

Nina, a 16-year-old girl, dreams of adventure. Just before meeting Morad, a teenage from an Algerian family living in the nearby projects, Nina sees a meteorite falling in the sky that seems only visible to her as an omen.

Director: Romain Laguna | Stars: Zéa Duprez, Billal Agab, Oumaima Lyamouri, Nathan Le Graciet

Votes: 260

27. Dinotasia (2012)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Animation

A collection of vignettes presenting possible experiences in the lives of dinosaurs during various periods.

Directors: David Krentz, Erik Nelson, David E. Duncan | Stars: Werner Herzog, Lorànt Deutsch

Votes: 427

28. Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)

Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short

If it weren't for a series of cataclysmic events, a comet impact being first on the list, our planet could well still be the domain of dinosaurs. Following Pr Rodolfo Coria, a world-reknown... See full summary »

Director: Marc Fafard | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rodolfo Coria

Votes: 468

29. Planet Unknown (2016)

10 min | Animation, Short, Action

At the end of 21st century, mankind were facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potential inhabitable planets.

Director: Shawn 'Zixiao' Wang

Votes: 456

30. First Apocalypse (2008 TV Movie)

TV-PG | Documentary, History

Some scientists challenge the meteor impact theory as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. This program lays out the evidence and considers alternative explanations. The program ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Bakker, David Brin, Luis Chiappe, Philip Currie

Votes: 38

31. Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink (2014 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary

This program describes the detective work and evidence for the generally accepted causes of two of the five mass extinctions, the KT and Permian. Then follows a diatribe on the speculation ... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Holt | Star: Tian Wang

Votes: 60

32. Mnemosyne Rising (2010)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Sci-Fi

A deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks while in orbit around a newly discovered moon. Alone on his ship, he must uncover the truth behind the reawakening of his long-forgotten memories.

Director: Miguel Alvarez | Stars: Marc Pouhe, Karina Dominguez, Dan Braverman

Votes: 58

33. How to Survive an Asteroid Strike: An Asteroid Day Special (2017 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

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Director: Rory Griffin | Stars: Colin Furze, Brian May

Votes: 7

34. Meteors: Fire in the Sky (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | Documentary

Part science lesson, part historical survey, this documentary looks at how meteors, meteorites and comets have not only affected our planet, but also how they have influenced our thinking.

Stars: David Ackroyd, James Ashley, Alan Hildebrand, David Levy

Votes: 33

35. Cosmos (1980)
Episode: Heaven and Hell (1980)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

Carl Sagan examines the nature of comets before turning to a close look at the planet Venus.

Directors: Adrian Malone, Geoffrey Haines-Stiles, Rob McCain, David F. Oyster, Richard J. Wells | Star: Carl Sagan

Votes: 584

36. Walking with Prehistoric Beasts (2001)
Episode: New Dawn (2001)

TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Documentary

Germany, 49 million years B.C. A day in the life of a small forest mammal called Leptictidium who is trying to raise young, a giant predatory bird called Gastornis trying to hatch an egg ... See full summary »

Directors: Jasper James, Nigel Paterson | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish

Votes: 162

37. Naked Science (2004– )
Episode: Colliding Continents (2006)

TV-G | Documentary, Adventure

The history and a projection of the future of the Earth's land masses caused by continental drift is explain by the theory of plate tectonics.

Director: Tom Stubberfield | Stars: Ronald C. Blakey, Samuel A. Bowring, Páll Einarsson, Alex F.M. Kisters

Votes: 18

38. Modern Marvels (1993– )
Episode: Heavy Metals (2006)

TV-PG | Documentary, History

Some metals are so critical to the US economy the the Federal Government retains a strategic stock pile of them. This program describes how these metals are produced and what they are used ... See full summary »

Star: Lloyd Sherr

Votes: 17

39. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: Galaxy Brain (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Sam and Dean respond to a frantic call and assist in an extraordinary and heartbreaking rescue; Billie surprises everyone with a visit to the bunker.

Director: Richard Speight Jr. | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Alexander Calvert, Misha Collins

Votes: 3,080

40. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Unexplained Mysteries (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

A few of the astronomical mysteries that bother scientists and the progress toward understanding them are described.

Director: Kevin Barry | Stars: Erik Thompson, Richard Muller, Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrienne Cool

Votes: 88

41. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode: A Small Town (2020)

TV-14 | 35 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A church handyman discovers a magic scale model that gives him the power to help his small town, but the mayor takes all the credit for his good intentions.

Director: Alonso Alvarez | Stars: Damon Wayans Jr., David Krumholtz, Natalie Martinez, Paula Newsome

Votes: 1,265

42. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Armageddon (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

Explains the tragedy an opportunity of mass extinctions then simulates the events before, during and after the chicxulub impact.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, Thomas Holtz, Larry Dean Martin, George Blasing

Votes: 19

43. Catastrophe (2008– )
Episode: Birth of the Planet (2008)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

30 million years after Earth's birth a cataclysmic collision almost destroyed the planet completely. Instead this chance collision formed the moon, triggering an extraordinary sequence of ... See full summary »

Director: Sophie Elwin-Harris | Stars: Tony Robinson, Robin Canup, Neil F. Comins, William Hartmann

Votes: 17

44. Catastrophe (2008– )
Episode: Asteroid Strike (2008)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary

Dinosaurs arose as rulers of the Earth 250 million years ago, but their reign soon ended in catastrophe, paving the way for mammals and eventually humans to flourish. Evidence shows that a ... See full summary »

Directors: Sid Bennett, Simon Bennett | Stars: Tony Robinson, Philip Currie, Dan Durda, Jaelyn Eberle

Votes: 12

45. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: The Origins of Africa (2013)

TV-G | 52 min | Documentary, History

Geologist from around the world provide a guided tour of the geological formations that convinced them Africa was once the center of the super continent Gondwan and for a time located at ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: John Compton, Olivier Dauteuil, Anna Flori-Lamour, Rodger Hart

Votes: 10

46. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: What Does a Meteorite Hitting a Spacecraft Sound Like? (2017)

5 min | Documentary, News

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbitor operations team thinks the satellite was hit by a tiny meteor while photographing the lunar surface. An image suddenly became wavy before settling down ... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

47. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: How Scientists Proved these Rocks Came from Mars (2021)

13 min | Documentary, News

Zircons contain impurities from the time of its formation. Glasses formed when a meteor hits a planet trapping gasses from the planet. Cosmic rays alter the chemistry of meteors traveling ... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

48. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Asteroid Attack (2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, History

This program repeatedly hammers home the catastrophic impact of a large asteroid impact on earth. Several known large impacts of the past are recounted as well as some recent near hits. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Beemer | Stars: Erik Thompson, Greg Laughlin, Alex Filippenko, Bruce Betts

Votes: 59

49. Natural World (1983– )
Episode: On the Eighth Day (1984)

Documentary

The effect on the natural world of a nuclear war, reporting on research in America, Russia and Britain which suggests that for thirty years the world has had the capacity to cause a nuclear winter.

Stars: Tom Ackerman, Vladimir Aleksandrov, Paul Ehrlich, Dan Gregory

Votes: 13

50. TopTenz (2010– )
Episode: 10 of History's Most Incredible Meterors (2021)

10 min | Documentary

If all you want to know is the biggest or most deadly meteor Guiness can tell you. These ten meteors have the greatest stories be it the first meteor to go viral, or the one that killed a ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler