Help Request: Survival / Post apocalyptic stories/movies

[Kaos]

So my fiance happens to be a fantastic writer who is finishing up her last semester and wants to get started on writing some of her first works to possibly get published.

Being around a gun nut she sees a lot of my gun nut stuff and some of that stuff falls under the survival/post apocalyptic genre.

She's asked me for some material to reference in that realm. She would preferably like stuff from a non military angle (real people) but some of the military stuff might be necessary

I've already reccomended the following, hoping you guys might be able to bolster that a bit:

Jericho
The Postman
Alas, Babylon
I am legend (the book)
Red Dawn
zombie type movies for survival angles.
The Edge
Children of Men


Not directly survival or apaocalypse
1984
Fahrenheit 451
V for Vendetta


Any help you guys can provide would be VERY appreciated.

Thanks!

[dirtybug]

A must read book for her,
Patriots by James welesley rawles (SP?)

[TonyF]

IMO, "Panic In Year Zero" is the most authentic and realistic short term survival movie ever made. The ingenuity and the "thinking on your feet" by the main character portrayed by Ray Milland was outstanding.

It's a 1960's cold war era flick. A bit corny at times but conceptually very realistic. There is even a scene regarding the waiting period to purchase firearms.

http://www.conelrad.com/features/panicinyearzero/

[ReefBlue]

The movie "Threads"

Absolutely nothing like it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...J4im-QGe8vXwAw

[mardo]

"Soilent (sp.) Green" Movie with Chuck Heston. Dated, but interesting. Also Omega Man, IIRC.

[DrakinClaw]

Andromeda Strain

and

A Quiet Earth

[bloomautomatic]

My favorite post-apocalyptic movies are Mad Max and the Road Warrior. In the first, there's still some remnant of society. In the second, it's all gone downhill. Lots of human aspect there.

Escape from New York is another good one. Note the guards ultra-futuristic rifles are AR-15's with the handguards removed.

I second Panic in Year Zero, and I am legend/omega man.

And of course, The Mutants of 2051 AD as shown in Strange Brew - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4KTebUT6Mw . they even reference omega man.

Vince

[dgg9]

IMO, "Panic In Year Zero" is the most authentic and realistic short term survival movie ever made. The ingenuity and the "thinking on your feet" by the main character portrayed by Ray Milland was outstanding.

+100. It's impressive how the film makers thought through the details of what would happen. It was the first movie of that genre and still the best.

[MOUNTAINORACLE]

I think that no list is complete without something from the either of the "Father's of Science Fiction".

Herbert George Wells" War of the Worlds,The invisible Man, etc.

Jules Verne"s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, etc

and don't forget George Orwell's 1984


oracle

[Johannes_Paulsen]

"Arc Light" by Eric L. Harry