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51. The Extinction of Fireflies (2021)
84 min | Comedy
"The Extinction of Fireflies" is a modern day gay comedy inspired by the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous.
Director: James Andrew Walsh | Stars: Michael Urie, Drew Droege, Tracie Bennett, Kario Marcel
Votes: 123
52. Annihilation Earth (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two scientists must save the planet when terrorists destroy a supercollider.
Director: Nick Lyon | Stars: Luke Goss, Marina Sirtis, Colin Salmon, Casey Angelova
Votes: 892
53. Neanderthal Apocalypse (2015– )
88 min | Documentary
40,000 years ago, the steppes of Eurasia were home to our closest relative, the Neanderthals. Recent genetic and archaeological discoveries have proven that they were not the dim-witted ... See full summary »
Stars: Jamie McGuire, Demetri Goritsas, Jackson Anderson, Eric Supensky
Votes: 145
54. Goodbye Volcano High (2023 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Drama, Music
Fang is a typical 18-year-old dinosaur: they're more concerned about their band going viral than they are about what happens after graduation. But they're about to have much bigger problems. Will they find time to figure themselves out?
Directors: Saleem Dabbous, Kyle McKernan | Stars: Lachlan Watson, Abe Bueno-Jallad, Mark Whitten, Ozioma Akagha
Votes: 71
55. T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
45 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A youth who finds a dinosaur egg accidentally breaks it. Soon after, she begins to have surreal visions of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Peter Horton, Liz Stauber, Kari Coleman, Charlene Sashuk
Votes: 795 | Gross: $53.35M
56. Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles (2011)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The remaining survivors of pan-global epidemic face a race against time to find a cure before they succumb to its zombie-inducing effects. Holed up in an abandoned military base, Tom and ... See full summary »
Director: Niki Drozdowski | Stars: Daniel Buder, Luise Bähr, Jerry Coyle, Klaus Ebert
Votes: 1,695
57. Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
In 1911 in Northern California, a rancher found a naked, unconscious Indian, near death, lying in his horse corral. After he was revived and brought back to health, it was eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Eloy Casados, Devon Ericson, Joaquín Martínez
Votes: 78
58. Genkai jinkô keisû (1995)
54 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man sees a murder in the subways and is soon pursued by the killer, who wants him to join a group called The Engineers, who have taken it upon themselves to reduce Japan's overpopulation.
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura | Stars: Kisei Ishizuka, Jun Sasaki, Chikako Tone, Tomoko Haseyama
Votes: 182
59. Animal Armageddon (2009– )
45 min | Documentary, History
This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.
Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel
Votes: 215
60. Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Greene, Jean Willes, Lester Matthews
Votes: 367
61. Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)
TV-PG | 29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
View what the modern science points to what the future looks like from the present year all the way to trillions upon trillions of years into the future.
Director: John D. Boswell | Stars: David Attenborough, Sean Carroll, Craig Childs, Brian Cox
Votes: 458
62. Welcome to Earth (2019)
18 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
It's 2618 and humans are extinct. Four aliens travel to Earth to visit the museum of humanity. There they find the story of the last heroes of humanity, setting out to find help. Welcome to... See full summary »
Director: Daan van 't Einde | Stars: Marloes Blokland, Floris Boone, Babette Engelgeer, George Hansel
Votes: 103
63. Extinction: The Facts (2020 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Family
With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all.
Director: Serena Davies | Stars: David Attenborough, James Mwenda
Votes: 1,018
64. Homeworld (2008)
104 min | Sci-Fi
The year: 3037. Earth is at war with aliens called Mendax. They have remarkable mental abilities and are determined to wipe out all mankind. In retaliation, a military team is sent to the ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Hudson | Stars: Beau Ballinger, Bronston DeLone, Vance Harvey, Galen Howard
Votes: 563
65. Man (2012 Video)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
500,000 years ago, the modern man appears. He treats the animals and nature as a consumer, with frivolity and cruelty, and pridefully turns the world into a dumpster. However, someone is watching.
Director: Steve Cutts
Votes: 1,162
66. Earth 2100 (2009 TV Movie)
84 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Follows the account of Lucy, who is born into a society where people are desperate for natural resources, while the global temperature and population are highly increasing.
Director: Rudy Bednar | Stars: Jameel Ahmad, Janine Benyus, Malcolm Bowman, Reinhard Bütikofer
Votes: 1,050
67. Secret of the Seal (1992)
83 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
After his mother's death, Antonio (nicknamed "Tottòi" in Sardinian) and his father move to Sardinia, where Tottòi's father grew up as a boy. Tottòi's adventures begin when he sees monk seal, despite belief that they died out long ago.
Director: Nekomataya | Stars: Daisuke Namikawa, Kappei Yamaguchi, Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Seizô Katô
Votes: 64
68. Dinosaurs: The True Story (2020)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In the world where dinosaurs have survived and have evolved even to the point of taking their first steps on the moon, a giant asteroid heads towards Earth.
Director: Paul-Louis Aeberhardt | Stars: Paul-Louis Aeberhardt, Lucas Belot, Lucas Benoit, Vasco Pottier
Votes: 58
69. The Turning Point (2020)
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Animals and humans switched places. Now, animals are ruling the earth and humans are at the verge of extinction.
Director: Steve Cutts
Votes: 540
70. A Short Vision (1956)
TV-MA | 6 min | Animation, Short
The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.
Directors: Joan Foldes, Peter Foldes | Star: James McKechnie
Votes: 428
71. Mom for a Mammoth Baby (1981 TV Short)
8 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A little mammoth is looking for his mother around the whole long been changed world.
Director: Oleg Churkin | Stars: Klara Rumyanova, Zinoviy Gerdt, Grigoriy Tolchinskiy, Rina Zelyonaya
Votes: 1,434
72. How the Earth Was Made (2007 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
A brief account of the Earth's geological progression, from its creation 4.6 billion years ago to scientists' predictions of its demise more than 2.5 billion years in the future.
Director: Peter Chinn | Stars: Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Boulton, Gary Stevens, Dan Durda
Votes: 621
73. Obselidia (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.
Director: Diane Bell | Stars: Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Chris Byrne
Votes: 308
74. Now You See It (2017)
3 min | Animation, Short
Director: Rebecca Manley | Star: Ewan McGregor
Votes: 43
75. Global Meltdown (2019)
1 min | Comedy
Admiral Horatio Horntower, an admiral of a fleet of one and perhaps the last man on Earth, is a drift in a drowned world.
76. Sucedió en un día (2010)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directors: Mariana Chenillo, Daniel Gruener, Beto Gómez, Julián Hernández, Gustavo Loza, Alejandro Lozano, Issa López, Ignacio Ortiz | Stars: Irene Azuela, Adriana Barraza, Marius Biegai, Ari Brickman
Votes: 42
77. Avengers: Age of Extinction (2020)
85 min | Adventure
The Avengers are trying to hunt for Ultron, but Ultron gets a deadly weapon from the Shredder and uses it on them. This leads to some avengers being captured and others on the run. Then the remaining avengers take the fight to Ultron
Directors: Mohed's Random Stuff, Mohed' Random Stuff | Stars: Dandroid, Lw, Mohed's Random Stuff, Jay Osborne
78. Ghost Bird (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
A feature length documentary about an extinct giant woodpecker, small town in Arkansas hoping to reverse it misfortunes, and the tireless odyssey of the bird-watchers and scientists searching for the Holy Grail of birds.
Director: Scott Crocker | Stars: Katie Jacques, Sandra Kemmer, Billy Clay, Ronnie Steinbeck
Votes: 130
79. Call of Life (2010)
60 min | Documentary
The first feature-length documentary film to fully investigate the growing threat to Earth's life-support systems from the loss of biodiversity. If current trends continue, scientists warn ... See full summary »
Director: Monte Thompson | Stars: Steven Beissinger, Sally Bingham, Ignacio Chapela, Peter Coyote
Votes: 38
80. The Last of the Line (1914)
20 min | Short, Drama, Western
Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, ... See full summary »
Directors: Jay Hunt, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Joe Goodboy, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Stanely Bigham
Votes: 156
81. Clash of the Cave Men (2008 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary
Clash of the Cavemen explores the long period in Europe when two human species - Neanderthals and modern humans called Cro-Magnons - co-existed. The special follows two human families - ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Cassel | Star: Silvian Duica
Votes: 50
82. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
123 min | Documentary
A middle-class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American culture.
Director: Timothy S. Bennett | Stars: Hannah Bennett, Thomas Berry, William R. Catton, Gerald Cecil
Votes: 144
83. Last Days on Earth (2006 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 80 min | Documentary
A special expanded edition of 20/20 that chronicles 7 of the deadliest threats to humanity. It starts at number 7 (least likely), the death of stars, including the risk of gamma ray bursts ... See full summary »
Stars: Kennette Benedict, Steven M. Block, Robert R. Butterworth, Clark Chapman
Votes: 90
84. Fifty Million Years Ago (1925)
7 min | Animation, Short
An animated introduction to the theory of evolution.
Votes: 28
85. No Man's Valley (1981 TV Movie)
30 min | Animation, Family
Elliot, a rare California condor, must find a hideaway for endangered animals before man drives them over the brink into extinction.
Directors: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman | Stars: Henry Corden, Frank Buxton, Art Metrano, Hal Smith
Votes: 24
86. The Powers of the Universe (2004 Video)
Documentary
Brian Swimme, the mathematical cosmologist, discusses eleven powers of the universe: seamlessness, centration, allurement, emergence, homeostasis, cataclysm, synergy, transmutation, transformation, interrelatedness and radiance.
87. Lions, Bones & Bullets (2021)
73 min | Documentary
A British author uncovers an elaborate, international wildlife con with an annual turnover of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars.
Director: Anton Leach | Stars: Peter Egan, Richard Peirce, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Votes: 8
88. Land of the Free: Out of the Shadows (2022)
40 min | Documentary, Short
We are not powerless against the Goliath of the trophy hunting industry. Make no mistake; it is an "industry". The ocean is not a vast body of water; it is comprised of an infinite number ... See full synopsis »
Director: James Ganiere | Stars: Ruth Nicole Dumbakurima, Peter Egan, Roger Gale, Eduardo Gonçalves
89. River Dogs
Documentary | Completed
An independent investigation of the mysterious and evil events happening to California sea lions on the Columbia river over the past two decades.
Director: Ksenia Kartopoltseva | Stars: Veronica Montoya, Larry Montoya, Dave Densmore, Arline LaMear
90. Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (2011)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, News
The film delves into the heart of the growing environmental, humanitarian, and social crisis-overpopulation and the excessive consumption linked to it.
Director: Christophe Fauchere | Stars: Esraa Bani, Albert Bartlett, Lester Brown, Martha Campbell
Votes: 145
91. Ocean Emergency: Currents of Hope (2022 TV Special)
Documentary
The hosts go around the globe to share a look at the state of emergency of our oceans and provide tips on how viewers can help mitigate this worldwide issue.
Stars: Dean Cain, Laura McKenzie, Elizabeth Stanton, Montel Williams
Votes: 28
92. 64,000,000 Years Ago (1981)
11 min | Animation, Short
This short animated film looks at the last of the great dinosaurs to stalk the central plains of North America. Lifelike models of ornithomimus, edmontosaur, and triceratops recreate the ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Maylone | Star: Sam Payne
Votes: 76
93. Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013)
Documentary
Director: Charlie Russell | Stars: Terry Pratchett, Rob Wilkins
Votes: 41
94. Surreal (2017)
29 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A lone survivor of an apocalyptic event rediscovers his humanity, after finding a mute girl deep within the woods.
Directors: Mark Riddle, Ximena Rios | Stars: Ivy Miller, Caleb Gordon, Rob Jacobsen, Alana Fischer
Votes: 23
95. Gora dinozavrov (1967)
10 min | Animation, Short
Talking eggshell enslaves small dinosaurs because of bad weather.
Director: Rasa Strautmane | Stars: Lev Lyubetskiy, Viktor Rozhdestvenskiy, Klara Rumyanova, I. Smirnov
Votes: 143
96. Metroid II: Return of Samus (1991 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After stopping the threat on the planet Zebes, Samus Aran is asked to eliminate the entire remaining Metroid population of the planet SR388.
Directors: Hiroyuki Kimura, Hiroji Kiyotake
Votes: 375
97. Dawn (aka. Morgenrøde) (2014)
70 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
At the beginning of a new aeon is a water polluted world years after a global fall. Where the legacy of what was, has been quenched and world understanding must take shape again. Surrounded... See full summary »
Director: Anders Elsrud Hultgreen | Stars: Torstein Bjørklund, Ingar Helge Gimle
Votes: 98
98. Save This Rhino (2019)
Documentary
The poaching of rhinos for their horns has reached epidemic levels to the point of extinction. Kevin, Matt and Graeme embark on a journey of discovery with the aim of making a difference.
Stars: Kevin Pietersen, Matt Wright, Graeme Smith
Votes: 13
99. Rare Bird (2006)
81 min | Documentary
Imagine finding a pterodactyl alive and nesting on an obscure island. Rare Bird is the true story of a 15-year-old boy who helped find a bird believed extinct and solve the mystery of its ... See full summary »
Director: Lucinda Spurling | Stars: David Wingate, Jeremy Madeiros, Sam Ristich, Louis Mowbray III
Votes: 16
100. Safe Passage (2021)
TV-G | 30 min | Documentary
The Emmy Award winning team at Warner Hanson Television is chronicling the people, technology and extraordinary efforts to save one of the last great wild salmon runs from extinction on Canada's mighty Fraser River.
Directors: Heidi Hanson, Chris Warner