Collections/January 2024

Postapocalyptic Sci-Fi

In the wake of World War II, amid the pervasive Cold War–era dread of nuclear annihilation, a profusion of dystopian films emerged that envisioned what the world might look like should doomsday come to pass. Encompassing dark, harrowing considerations of life after Armageddon ( Testament , Threads ) and grungy action extravaganzas set in imaginatively realized postapocalyptic landscapes ( Mad Max , Escape from New York ), these welcome-to-the-wasteland works of science fiction alternately unsettle and thrill with their visions of a future that can sometimes feel all too imminent.

14 films — 0 on the Channel, 14 unavailable