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"For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety"--Container.
2) Snowpiercer
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
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"Charlie Walker [is] an earnest entrepreneur working in the construction and trucking industries in 1971 San Francisco. When two oil tankers collide off the coast, unleashing millions of gallons of oil and spawning an immense environmental disaster, Charlie gets right to work. First, he lands a lucrative contract to clean the coastline. Then, with only three trucks, Charlie puts his heart and his hands into trying to save the coastline, all while...
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The planet suffered an environmental collapse. The air became dangerous to breathe, the water became toxic, and billions of people died. Generations later humankind has finally re-established a rudimentary society, in which bounty hunters roam the land in search of wanted eco-criminals. Bounty hunter Attica Gage has a chance at the bounty of a lifetime: bringing down the ruthless outlaw, Thomas Jackson.
7) Wasteland
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It's the near future and we've finally done it. The chemicals that we have been pumping into the environment have caused our ecosystem to fail and collapse. Known as 'Black Sunday', hundreds of dust storms or 'Black Blizzards' occurred throughout the World; First it was the land to go barren, then it was the animals who were brought to the edge of extinction and finally the death toll of man is in the hundreds of millions.
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After the catastrophe known as the "Hammer of Eden" struck, 90% of the Earth's surface was flooded, killing over 6 billion people in the process. 14 years later, despite this tragedy, mankind perseveres. With the vast majority of land now submerged, groups of survivors soon band together amongst the world's scarcely available land masses and establish independent political states, slowly moving forward the machinations of society. As these island...
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For years, declining birth rates have forced what's left of the human race to cede more and more territory to other beings who have appeared to take advantage of the emptying ecological niche. Now, only a handful of humans remain among the remnants of civilization and Earth is dominated by faeries: tiny, ten-inch tall creatures of surprising intelligence. But humanity's importance isn't over quite yet, as young Watashi learns as she returns to her...
11) Catastrophe!
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Were the early Dark Ages triggered by a natural event of cataclysmic proportions around 535 A.D.? A therory exists that a a volcanic explosion equal to two billion Hiroshima-size bombs caused an environmental calamity affecting human civilization from Mongolia to Constaninople, precipitating plague, famine, death, great migration, the Anglo-Saxon victory over the Celts and perhaps even the rise of Islam.
14) Snowpiercer
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The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
15) After Armageddon
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What would happen if a doomsday scenario were to unfold in America? What would people do? Where would they go? How would they survive? Documented is what life might be like for one Los Angeles family in the wake of a hypothetical global flu pandemic that kills billions around the world and leaves America in total chaos. Provided is a chilling theoretical account of the worst-case scenario for global disaster.
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"This gripping program presents the harrowing story of how desperate crew members escaped a catastrophic fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Never before broadcast recordings, rare archival footage, photos, and interpretive reenactments reveal how a sudden and massive explosion left 11 dead, and more than 100 others racing to survive."--Container.
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