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Theme: Global Warming


Global Warming comes from environmental science and is the idea that human activity (commonly in the form of burning carbon-based fuel products) has caused an overall rise in global temperatures. Scientists are almost completely unanimous in support of evidence for such and have issued strident warnings that consumption should be decreased. However, this has become a hotly contested theory in some areas often for very political reasons.

Science-fiction has created a number of works derived from this (what has become called Cli-Fi or Climate Fiction). The genre has depicted various new onset Ice Ages and environmentally devastated futures caused by rise in temperatures and/or sea levels to the point of in some cases of Earth becoming uninhabitable.


4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)

3 September 201217 December 2020

Rating: ★★

End of the World

Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paul Hipp, Trung Nguyen, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Age of Stupid (2009)

11 September 200914 June 2019

Rating: ★★

Environmentally Devastated Future/Global Warming Documentary

Director: Franny Armstrong
Actors: Pete Postlethwaite, Adnan Bayyoud, Jamila Bayyoud, Alvin DuVernay, …
Category: Science Fiction

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

30 July 201213 February 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Magical Realism

Director: Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, …
Category: Fantasy

Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (2013)

14 September 201318 November 2019

Rating: 0­

Bird Attacks

Director: James Nguyen
Actors: Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore
Category: Horror

Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2008)

13 December 20116 March 2020

Rating: 0­

Bird Attacks/Cult Bad Movie

Director: James Nguyen
Actors: Alan Bagh, Whitney Moore
Category: Horror

Borealis (2013)

17 January 201730 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Outpost in a Future Thawed-Out Arctic

Director: David J. Frazee
Actors: Ty Olsson, Michelle Harrison, Patrick Gallagher, Christina Horne, …
Category: Science Fiction

Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

5 May 200731 March 2020

Rating: ★★½

Superstorms/Disaster Mini-Series

Director: Dick Lowry
Actors: Gina Gershon, Randy Quaid, Shannen Doherty, Cameron Daddo, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Colony (2013)

11 April 20135 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Grim Survival in a Frozen Future

Director: Jeff Renfroe
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, Charlotte Sullivan, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

1 June 200427 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

New Ice Age/Environmental Disaster Movie

Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, …
Category: Science Fiction

Geostorm (2017)

3 December 201719 November 2019

Rating: ★½

Weather Control/Disaster Movie

Director: Dean Devlin
Actors: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, …
Category: Science Fiction

Habitat (1996)

30 July 20118 June 2020

Rating: ★

Human-Plant Mutations

Director: Renee Daalder
Actors: Balthazar Getty, Alice Krige, Tchecky Karyo, Laura Harris, …
Category: Science Fiction

Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

21 March 200127 February 2020

Rating: 0­

Immortal Combat/Dark Future

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Michael Ironside, Virginia Madsen, …
Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

Io (2019)

24 November 201929 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Environmentally Devastated Future

Director: Jonathan Helpert
Actors: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston
Category: Science Fiction

Nuoc 2030 (2014)

9 October 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Future Vietnam Flooded by Climate Change

Director: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen Vo
Actors: Quynh Hoa, Quy Binh, Thach Kim Long, Hoang Tran Minh Duc, …
Category: Science Fiction

Oceans Rising (2017)

28 May 201928 May 2019

Rating: ★

Global Warming Disaster Movie

Director: Adam Lipsius
Actors: Jason Tobias, Summer Spiro, DeJean Brown, Paola Menacho, …
Category: Science Fiction

Planet of the Sharks (2016)

15 May 201727 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Drowned Future/Killer Sharks

Director: Mark Atkins
Category: Science Fiction

Scorched Earth (2018)

12 March 201821 September 2018

Rating: ★

Post-Holocaust

Director: Peter Howitt
Actors: Gina Carano, Ryan Robbins, John Hannah, Dean S. Jagger, …
Category: Science Fiction

Snowpiercer (2013)

19 July 20144 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Train Containing the Last Survivors of Humanity

Director: Bong Joon-ho
Actors: Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, …
Category: Science Fiction

Split Second (1992)

2 June 20056 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Satanic Alien Serial Killer

Director: Tony Maylam
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Alun Armstrong, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Steam Experiment (2009)

9 July 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Imprisonment Thriller

Director: Philippe Martinez
Actors: Val Kilmer, Armand Assante, Eric Roberts, Megan Brown, …
Category: Horror

The Thaw (2009)

24 July 201123 February 2020

Rating: ★★½

Prehistoric Flesh-Eating Insects

Director: Mark A. Lewis
Actors: Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore, Kyle Schmid, …
Category: Science Fiction

Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018)

2 November 20186 November 2020

Rating: ★★★

Monster Movie

Director: Don Michael Paul
Actors: Michael Gross, Jamie Kennedy, Tanya Van Graan, Jamie Lee Money, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

Waterworld (1995)

18 January 200315 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Post-Holocaust Drowned Earth

Director: Kevin Reynolds
Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, …
Category: Science Fiction

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  • Real-Life People in Fiction
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  • Asylums
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