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List Of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction
This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, or crash of civilization due to a nuclear electromagnetic pulse. Films Television programs * ''A Carol for Another Christmas'' (ABC, 1964), Rod Serling TV film * ''A Day Called 'X''' (CBS, 1957) * ''Adventure Time'' ( Cartoon Network, 2010–2018) * '' American Horror Story: Apocalypse'' ( FX, 2018) * '' Battlestar Galactica'' (Sci-Fi, 2003, 2004–2009) * '' Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' (NBC, 1979) * ''By Dawn's Early Light'' ( HBO, 1990) * ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' ( HBO, 1984) * '' Dark Angel'' (Fox, 2000–2002) * '' Der Dritte Weltkrieg'' (ZDF, 1998) * ''Fail Safe'' (CBS, 2000) * '' Genesis II'' (CBS, 1973) * '' Jericho'' (CBS, 2006–2008) * '' Level Seven'' (BBC, 1966), adapted by J. B. Priestley for ''Out of the Unknown'' * '' On the Beach'' (Showtime, 2000) * ''Planet Earth'' (ABC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speculative Fiction
Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe. Such fiction covers various themes in the context of supernatural, futuristic, and other imaginative realms. The genres under this umbrella category include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (for example, science fantasy). History Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to paradigm-changing and neotraditional works of the 21st century. Characteristics of speculative fiction have been recognized in older works whose authors' intentions, or in the social contexts of the stories they portray, are now known. For example, the ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Duncan (writer)
David Duncan (February 17, 1913 – December 27, 1999, Everett, Washington) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Biography He began writing professionally at the age of 33 after about ten years in government. His screenwriting career began in 1953 with the release of his first film and Paramount Pictures, Paramount's first 3-D film#The .22golden era.22 .281952–1955.29, 3-D film, ''Sangaree (film), Sangaree''. Duncan is remembered for his work in science fiction such as the films ''Monster on the Campus'' (1958), ''The Time Machine (1960 film), The Time Machine'' (1960) and ''Fantastic Voyage'' (1966). He was credited with writing the English narrative for ''Rodan (film), Rodan'' (1956). He also wrote for many television series such as ''National Velvet (TV series), National Velvet'' (1960), ''The Outer Limits (1963 TV series), The Outer Limits'' ("The Human Factor (1963 The Outer Limits), The Human Factor", 1963), and ''Daniel Boone (1964 TV series), Daniel Boone'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films, almost all of which are adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres and are noted for their innovative cinematography, Black comedy, dark humor, realistic attention to detail and extensive set designs. Kubrick was raised in the Bronx, New York City, and attended William Howard Taft High School (New York City), William Howard Taft High School from 1941 to 1945. He received average grades but displayed a keen interest in literature, photography, and film from a young age, and taught himself all aspects of film production and directing after graduating from high school. After working as a photographer for ''Look (American magazine), Look'' magazine in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he began making short films on shoestring budgets, and made his first major Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter George (author)
Peter Bryan George (26 March 1924 – 1 June 1966) was a Welsh author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel '' Red Alert'', published initially with the title ''Two Hours to Doom'' and written using the pseudonym Peter Bryant. The book was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic movie '' Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb''. Life George was born in 1924 in Treorchy, Rhondda, Wales, and died aged 42 in Hastings, East Sussex, England. He was a flight lieutenant and navigator for the Royal Air Force during World War II serving with No. 255 Squadron RAF, flying night fighter missions over Malta and Italy. He rejoined the RAF serving at RAF Neatishead and as a fighter controller where he often wrote while on duty and used a pseudonym. He retired from the service in 1961. On 1 June 1966, Peter George was found dead with a discharged double-barreled shotgun between his knees; his death was ruled a suicide. Works His best-known nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Bernstein
Walter Bernstein (August 20, 1919 – January 23, 2021) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s because of his views on communism. Some of his notable works included ''The Front'' (1976), ''Yanks'' (1979), and ''Little Miss Marker'' (1980). He was a recipient of Writers Guild of America Awards including the Ian McLellan Hunter award and the Evelyn F. Burkey award. Early life Bernstein was born on August 20, 1919, in Brooklyn, New York, to Eastern European immigrants Hannah (née Bistrong) and Louis Bernstein, a teacher. He studied at the Erasmus High School in Flatbush, Brooklyn. After graduating from high school, he went on to study a six-month immersive language course at University of Grenoble, where he lived with a French family who were acquaintances of his father. It was here that he was exposed first to communist ideas. He returned to the United States and attended Dartmouth College, where he gained hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Wheeler
John Harvey Wheeler (October 17, 1918 – September 6, 2004) was an American author, political scientist, and scholar. He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of ''Fail-Safe (novel), Fail-Safe'' (1962), an early Cold War novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of Nuclear warfare, nuclear war. The novel was made into a movie, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, in 1964. In later years, Wheeler was a founding editor of the ''Journal of Social and Biological Structures'', 1982, and an early advocate of online education and the Internet as a democratizing tool. He taught a course in "OnLine Publishing" for Connected Education in the mid-to-late 1980s. Biography Wheeler was born on October 17, 1918 in Waco, Texas. He attended Subiaco Abbey and Academy, Subiaco Academy, earned his bachelor's and master's degree from Indiana University, and his PhD from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Burdick
Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918 – July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of ''The Ugly American'' (1958), ''Fail-Safe'' (1962), and author of ''The 480'' (1965). Early life He was born in Sheldon, Iowa, the son of Marie Ellerbroek and Jack Dale Burdick. His father was a socialist who named his son after Eugene V. Debs. His family moved to Los Angeles, California when he was four years of age. One of his pastimes growing up was surfing. Education and early career He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford University. After the United States entered World War II, he served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. Burdick was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest non-combat decoration awarded for heroism by the Navy, for rescuing four injured men by diving into a sea full of burning oil while under artillery fire. Thereafter, he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fail-Safe (1964 Film)
''Fail Safe'' is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of U.S. bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop the bomber group before it can deploy a nuclear first strike. The film features performances by actors Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dana Elcar, Dom DeLuise and Sorrell Booke. In 2000, the novel was adapted again as a televised play starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss and Noah Wyle, and broadcast live in black and white on CBS. Plot United States Air Force General Black has been having recurring dreams in which a Spanish matador kills a bull before a cheering crowd. Black flies to Washington, D.C. to attend a conference led by Dr. Groeteschele, a political scientist renowned for his expertise on the politics of nuclear weapons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladybug Ladybug (film)
''Ladybug Ladybug'' is a 1963 American docudrama film directed by Frank Perry and written by Eleanor Perry. The film is a commentary on the psychological effects of the Cold War, the title deriving from the classic nursery rhyme. It marked the film debuts of William Daniels, Estelle Parsons and Jane Connell. The film was inspired by a ''McCall's'' magazine story about an actual incident at a California elementary school during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Plot One morning, teachers at a secluded countryside elementary school are asked to accompany the pupils to their homes after a nuclear attack warning alarm sounds and the staff are unable to determine whether or not the alarm was false. One teacher and the children under her care walk through the countryside, with a slowly building sense of doom about what they believe to be the upcoming nuclear holocaust. Several of the children reach their homes; one girl cowers under a bed after her parents refuse to take the threat seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panic In Year Zero!
''Panic in Year Zero!'' (a.k.a. ''End of the World'') is a 1962 American black-and-white survival science fiction film from American International Pictures. It was produced by Arnold Houghland and Lou Rusoff, directed by Ray Milland, who also stars with Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel, and Joan Freeman. The original music score was composed by Les Baxter. The screenplay was written by John Morton and Jay Simms. The film was released by AIP in 1962 as a double feature with ''Tales of Terror''. Plot Harry Baldwin, his wife Ann, their son Rick, and daughter Karen leave suburban Los Angeles on a camping trip to the Sierra Nevada wilderness after sunrise. On the way, the Baldwins notice an unusually bright light behind them. Sporadic news reports broadcast on CONELRAD hint at the start of an atomic war, confirmed when the Baldwins see a large mushroom cloud rising over Los Angeles. The family attempt to return home and rescue Ann's mother. Harry soon realizes that the roads w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Jetée
''La Jetée'' () is a 1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker and associated with the French New Wave#Left Bank, Left Bank artistic movement. still image film, Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-apocalyptic science fiction, post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. It is 28 minutes long and shot in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film. The 1995 science fiction film ''12 Monkeys'' was inspired by and borrows several concepts directly from ''La Jetée''. Plot A man (Davos Hanich) is a prisoner in the aftermath of World War III in post-apocalyptic Paris, where survivors live underground in the ''Palais de Chaillot'' galleries. Scientists research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods "to call past and future to the rescue of the present." They have difficulty finding subjects who can mentally withstand the shock of time travel. The scientists eventually settle upon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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