End of the world or the Apocalypse Bashny.Net

Mankind has long dreams about doomsday. With the advent of movies with special effects, fantasy became particularly picturesque. Every time writers and writers come up with different reasons for the destruction of humanity. This uprising machines and virus turns all into zombies and the threat from space and climate change, and much more.

Thanks to this collection, you will learn about the history of post-apocalyptic kinozhanrov to the present day to the 50s of the last century.





In the film "Cloverfield" 2008, a group of young people should be saved from a ruthless monster raging in New York. Even the Statue of Liberty could not remain unscathed. (Paramount Pictures)



In the movie "2012" describes the disasters that have occurred in the world, when the Mayan calendar came to an end. For decades, many predicted that the world would end when the December 21, 2012 over the ancient calendar. This film of 2009 - just one of the many paintings in which people confront the alleged end of the world. (Columbia Pictures)



Cormac McCarthy novel "The Road" was filmed this year. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-MakPi play father and son, opposing hungry scum and cannibals who invaded the continent after the nuclear explosion that destroyed America. (Dimension Films)



In the 2007 film "I Am Legend" Will Smith plays Robert Neville - one of the last survivors of a viral epidemic that has turned mankind into flesh-eating zombies. The film is based on a novel by Richard Matheson. This is the third film adaptation of the book. (Warner Bros. Pictures)



In the 2006 film "Children of Men" the human race faces extinction after two decades of universal infertility - a common theme in the literature on the apocalyptic theme. Clive Owen plays a disillusioned bureaucrat who should in any way protect pregnant refugee from Africa (represented by Claire-Hope Ashley). (Universal Pictures)



HG Wells wrote the novel "War of the Worlds" in 1898, but the history of the invasion of aliens on Earth still excites the audience. Perhaps the most famous works was the adaptation of Orson Welles radio drama, which led many to believe in the reality of the situation, when there was on the air in 1938. In 2005, the studio «Paramount» released a film directed by Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning in the lead roles. (Paramount Pictures)



In the 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow," the main negative character acted weather. The film shows the disastrous effects of global warming and global cooling. Hail the size of a soccer ball has Tokyo and tornadoes destroy International Airport in Los Angeles, while the world falls into a new Ice Age. (20th Century Fox)



Emerging from a coma in a London hospital, courier named Jim realizes that the world around him has changed completely. In the movie "28 Days Later" we are talking about a virus that turns its victims into bloodthirsty zombies. Jim joins several survivors and trying to find an antidote and a place where he can be safe. On the DVD-version of the film has three different endings, which gave the audience something to think about. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)



The filmmakers 2003 "core" suggested what would happen to the world if the inner core of the earth simply stop turning. With the rapid deterioration of the magnetic field of our atmosphere simply start to unravel at the seams. To save the planet, the team must penetrate to the center of the Earth and all adjust. (Paramount)



And as it turns out in Hollywood to shoot two films on the same topic at the same time? In 1998, two films about the collision of Earth with an asteroid. "Armageddon" was considered the best. The main character is performed Bruce Willis, who played driller who sacrificed himself for the salvation of mankind. (Touchstone Pictures)



In the movie "Deep Impact" is almost the same scenario as in "Armageddon", only this time with the Earth should encounter a comet, not an asteroid. (Paramount Pictures)



When the aliens decided to conquer our world in the 1996 film "Independence Day", they realized that people do not give up without a fight, especially on Independence Day, July 4. Bill Pullman plays the president, whose military experience was useful in handy. (20th Century Fox)



Life is harsh in the 2035 movie "12 Monkeys", released in 1995. After infection, 99% of the population and disaster, as a result of which the surface of the earth became impossible to live, mankind has left in an isolated world. Hero Bruce Willis - prisoner volunteered to travel back in time to go back and try to fix it. (Universal Pictures)



In the most famous film of Arnold Schwarzenegger "The Terminator" (1984), the future governor of California plays a cyborg assassin. Its mission - to go back in time and kill Sarah Connor, the future mother of John Connor -povstantsa, which will raise the people against the robots. After the first part came out a few sequels and even a short series. (Orion Pictures)



Many small spectators were injured TV films in 1983, "On the next day," which shows the fate of the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Montana, after a nuclear explosion. (ABC)



In "Mad Max" Mel Gibson plays a cop in an apocalyptic world where almost no fuel, and law and order are no longer honored. Thanks to this role, Gibson, previously little known, was the real star. (Warner Bros.)

"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" 1978 is a remake of the 1956 film. In these films, and original novel by Jack Finney small group of people are discovering that people are replaced by aliens that are grown in a semblance of cocoons. (United Artists)



Michael Crichton, even more famous by the "Jurassic Park", also wrote the book "The virus Andromeda", filmed in 1971. In the story, scientists must investigate deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin in the city are immune to the disease were only one baby and an elderly man. (Universal Pictures)



The name of the movie 1973 "Soylent Green" a few years after the film is not on the lips. Charlton Heston played a New York detective in a world where humanity lives on food, which are secret and not the usual ingredients. (Everett Collection)



The star of "Soylent Green" Charlton Heston also starred in the 1968 film "Planet of the Apes." He played an astronaut stranded on an unknown planet where apes rule the people. Statue of Liberty in the film appears in one of the most classic and as often parodied scenes. (Everett Collection)



In the 1959 film "On the Beach" in the world of the Third World War broke out, and only in remote Australia still have some semblance of a normal life. Australian residents realize that soon they will be infected, and try to trace the mysterious light in the hope that somewhere there is a clean, not yet contaminated by radiation world. (United Artists)