[Emma]

I want to recommend Instinct. A psychological film with Anthony hopkins. Strong messages about the wrongs of civilization.

And of course the series Jericho. If you haven't seen it, get a copy or watch them online Here
Basically what would happen if most of the USA came under nuclear attack. Good survival scenarios.

Please share your favorites

[billp]

Mad Max scenario to post peak oil?

Try The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Listen, don't read.

[seldom_seen]

Deliverance

Four suburbanites thrown in to a survival situation in the Georgia backcountry.
Plus Lewis (Burt Reynolds) is a total doomer.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ecause they're buildin' a dam across the Cahulawassee River. They're gonna flood a whole valley, Bobby, that's why. Dammit, they're drownin' the river...Just about the last wild, untamed, unpolluted, unfucked up river in the South. Don't you understand what I'm sayin'?...They're gonna stop the river up. There ain't gonna be no more river. There's just gonna be a big, dead lake...You just push a little more power into Atlanta, a little more air-conditioners for your smug little suburb, and you know what's gonna happen? We're gonna rape this whole god-damned landscape. We're gonna rape it.

Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game - survive.

[billp]

Try Internet Whiskey and Gunpowder

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hiskey & Gunpowder
August 4, 2007
By Kevin Kerr,
New York, New York, U.S.A.

The Coming Resource War
The other morning, I was making coffee at the crack of dawn, as I do each day. As I stood there watching the coffee percolate, I began to think about how difficult it would be to survive in a world where we were fighting for resources everyday. We take so much for granted, especially as Americans. After all, electricity is just a light switch away, groceries are usually in abundance just a few miles away and gasoline, while costly, is cheaper than many other liquids we buy each day, including some fancy bottled water.

Let's face it. Most of us have never had to kill our own food or forage in the forest to find enough wood to heat our home for the night. What would that be like? Would we be prepared? I highly doubt it.

The battle for global resources has already begun — the borders are being drawn and the players are suiting up. The grim reality is that commodities are being gobbled up around the globe, and as Earth's population surges past six billion, resources are being stretched to the limit. ...

[Mo_Oil_Dave]

Hello there...

If you want doom, have I got doom for you.

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This Film won many awards when it came out in 2001. It has just been released on DVD. It's a documentary about the people living in San Francisco (currently pop. 186) ten years after a extremely deadly virus sweeps the world.

Into The Forest


This book just screams Peak oil, but it isn't specifically mentioned. It has the usual elements--- colapse of the economy, mobs, general mayhem. {SPOILER WARNING}--- there is a rape scene.

Link 3


This is a young adult book written in the form a a girls diary beginning just before a rather severe cosmic calamity. With the exception of the tacked on happy ending it read very well.

Enjoy!
David

[coyote]

Well, the Mad Max series itself, of course.

The Stand.

The Quiet Earth was interesting (the book, not the horrible movie). Another post-plague story.

Lucifer's Hammer. Post-comet-strike, struggle to survive and hold on to nuclear power.

The Handmaid's Tale. Social collapse of the United States.

A strange one, but good: the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov (the first four: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, and Foundation's Edge), for those who are into science fiction. Here's the collapse, not of the world, but of an entire galactice empire. 10,000 years of chaos predicted, which the Foundation hopes to shorten to a single millenium.

For that matter, Childhood's End. That one's about as doom-filled as they come...

[basic_black]

C'mon now, don't forget Three Days of the Condor! It was made just a few years before I was born, but it doesn't get much more relevant than that. As stated in one of the reviews from IMDB written in 2003: (warning, potential copyright infringement about to occur):
The movie "Three Days of the Condor" eerily as well as accurately predicts the very situation that the US has got itself into now,in 2003,in the oil-rich Middle and Near East some twenty eight years ago back in in 1975! Robert Redford, Joe Turner, works for the CIA and is doing his job like he's done it for years. He reads and interprets books, without the slightest suspicion of how he, as well as his co-workers, is looked upon when it comes to the real scheme of things to what his bosses think about what's going on in the world.


Also interesting: This was one of the very first films shot in and around the WTC.

Disturbing thought: How many of the films/books we have mentioned are high up on the bestseller or most-rented/most-watched lists? The popularity of doomer media is an interesting topic.

Doomer film fest, anyone?

[basic_black]

Oh, yes- lest I forget: Parable of the Sower

A brief review from an Amazon reader:

Book Review by C. Douglas Baker

Robert A. Heinlein once stated that in writing speculative fiction the author takes a current cultural or societal trend and follows that trend to its logical, if sometimes extreme, conclusion. Butler has taken the anomie of today's central cities in the United States, with the attendant violence, drug abuse, and general disregard for community and painted a frightening and stark world in PARABLE OF THE SOWER. Butler introduces us to an America thirty years hence where to survive communities must be armed, walled, and prepared to take human life to defend themselves; an America where drug abuse has taken a radically violent turn in which a new drug "Pyro" induces the user to burn items, be they animate or inanimate, for a sexual high; an America where life expectancy is short; an America where violence is the norm instead of the exception.

In this stark, surreal world is Lauren Oya Olamina, an eighteen year old girl with a vision. Olamina lives in a walled community that has protected itself by keeping quiet, inconspicuous, well armed, and prepared to defend itself. This all changes when Lauren's brother, Keith, enters the nefarious world beyond the walls and implicitly brings attention to this previously secluded community. Lauren finds she and her community must confront the ugly world outside the walls.

Most of Butler's works have a strong, empathetic female character that seem to carry an unfair burden in life. Lauren Olamina is no exception. Lauren has a condition called "hyperempathy" meaning that she feels the physical pain of others (including animals). Yet, she is willing to kill to defend herself and her family, despite the psychological costs to herself. She remarks that if everyone had her disability, violence would greatly diminish. Unfortunately for Lauren, the world she lives in is not only full of violence but inherently forces a person to eventually commit acts of violence in self-defense. Lauren also has a gradual and evolving "philosophy" called "Earthseed" that takes on quasi-religious status as the novel unfolds. This "Earthseed" is the thread that binds the narrative and makes the conclusion innovative and hopeful.

Butler's work is intricate and impressive in its description of a future America. There are many sophisticated parallels between the ugly future Butler paints and today's society. I really cannot do her work justice by a simple and brief description. I highly recommend PARABLE OF THE SOWER.

Happy reading!

[Troyboy1208]

Use short links people!!

[steam_cannon]

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[Ferretlover]

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank --after nuclear war; bartering, hunting, fishing, bees for honey, defense...

Friday by R. Heinlein --dealing with TPTB, interesting 'hidey hole' to escape the law enforcement

Stranger in a Strange Land by R. Heinlein --some dealing with TPTB tiips

The Quiet Earth by C. Harrison -the last man on earth?? Book good, movie was awful-in may parts of it apparently the film ediitor was VERY intoxicated or stoned!

The Stand by S. King --after pandemic

On The Beach movie --after nuclear war;dealing with depression, suicide, running out of safe spaces

The Omega Man movie --manmade pandemic kills off most of world's population, leaving most of the survivors turning into zombies

[dorlomin]

Doomer porn so hardcore the Goverment banned it.....

No one does "we are all buggered" quite as nihilistic as the Brits and with these two TV movies they made giving in to the Soviets seem like the better alternative.

The War Game
"the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game
Apparently they had consultants from the Dresden firebombing to help with the plot, the scene with the bucket full of wedding rings was tacken from how Dresdeners had too try to find if there spouces were dead. The bodies were so badly burned they took the wedding rings of off them in the hope surviving spouses would at least recognise it, and filled buckets full of them.

Threads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads
War over Iran, the every one starts bombing everyone else, some one bombs Sheffield. The 80s in the North of England actualy manage to get even more depressing.....


Neither of these is for people looking forward to the apocalypse.






Not that all of Britain was totaly humourless about WWIII......
A few weeks back I found this on the British armies unofficial wikipedia, its about the forces that faced them from East Germany, the Soviet Third Shock Army
http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/index.php/3rd_Shock_Army
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the days of the Cold War 3rd Shock Army was the Soviet formation that sat on the other side of the IGB. The bad guys, the Soviet hordes and proof that "Quality may be better than quantity, but quantity has a quality all of it's own".

No matter how many prep talks the officers gave you, how stiff the upper lip and how strong the British spirit, grit and determination was, it never quite got rid of the slight nagging feeling that 1 x British Corps vs 1 x Soviet Army wasn't exactly cricket.

On the plus side intelligence assessments were not particularly hard work - "advancing West" covered most of it.

[TheTurtle]

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