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Page 1: Post Apocalyptic timeline. Invasion U.S.A set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant

Post Apocalyptic timeline

Page 2: Post Apocalyptic timeline. Invasion U.S.A set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant

Invasion U.S.Aset during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union.Cold war.

The world, the flesh and the devil Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Fear of Nulear war.

Panic in year zero A family of four leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before a nuclear bomb destroys the city. As lawlessness prevails, the father must fight to keep his family alive, Fear of nuclear war.

(1952) (1959) (1962)

1950’s - 1960’s: Cold war and fear of Nuclear Warfare

Page 3: Post Apocalyptic timeline. Invasion U.S.A set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant

Blade runner Dust is killing people on Earth, and they are being encouraged to leave to other colonies, which are no picnic. Fear of technology taking over

The Quiet earth New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge andPete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster.Fear of technology taking over

The terminator Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from the year 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor,Fear of technology taking over

(1982) (1985)(1984)

1980s – fear of technology taking over

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‘Waterworld’ In a future where the polar ice caps have melted and most of Earth is underwater, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land- environmental disasters

28 Days Later Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.- this- science ‘meddling’ with nature

(2002) (1995)

1990’s and 2000’s- fear of environmental disasters and fear of deadly virus’