Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mass-extinction"

1. Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

PG | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Scrat's acorn sends an asteroid to Earth, the Herd must find a way to stop the asteroid from hitting Earth with the help of a returning friend.

Directors: Michael Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu | Stars: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Chris Wedge

Votes: 74,918 | Gross: $64.06M

2. IO (2019)

TV-14 | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

Director: Jonathan Helpert | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston, Tom Payne

Votes: 36,384

3. The 11th Hour (I) (2007)

PG | 95 min | Documentary

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.

Directors: Leila Conners, Nadia Conners | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kenny Ausubel, Thom Hartmann, Wangari Maathai

Votes: 5,908 | Gross: $0.70M

4. Racing Extinction (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, News

A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction.

Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Elon Musk, Joel Sartore, Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton

Votes: 8,195

5. Planet of the Humans (2019)

100 min | Documentary

Planet of the Humans takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.

Director: Jeff Gibbs | Stars: Jeff Gibbs, David Joos, Kristin Zimmerman, J. Peter Lark

Votes: 3,334

6. Tomorrow (2015)

G | 118 min | Documentary

The world's climate is changing. Instead of showing the worst that can happen, this documentary focuses on the people suggesting solutions and their actions.

Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Anthony Barnosky, Olivier De Schutter, Cyril Dion, Emmanuel Druon

Votes: 3,597 | Gross: $0.04M

7. When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001 TV Movie)

Unrated | 91 min | Animation, Documentary

The life of American dinosaurs is seen in amazing detail. The Feathered Dromeosaurs (Raptors) debut on this film along with the bizarre Therizinosaur. Each story is compelling and ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: John Goodman, Karen Chin, Philip Currie, Jim Kirkland

Votes: 558

8. 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: 451

9. Phase 7 (2010)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Inside a quarantined apartment building a man must protect his pregnant wife from his new neighbors.

Director: Nicolás Goldbart | Stars: Daniel Hendler, Jazmín Stuart, Yayo Guridi, Iride Mockert

Votes: 3,396

10. History of the World in 2 Hours (2011 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, History

A rapid-fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day. This two-hour CGI-driven special delves into the key turning points: the formation of earth, ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Cohen | Stars: Corey Burton, Alex Filippenko, Peter Ward, Clifford V. Johnson

Votes: 1,043

11. When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time (2019– )

89 min | Documentary, Adventure

A deep dive into the evolutionary history of whales, elephants, crocodiles and birds.

Star: Lee Pace

Votes: 159

12. The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 60 min | Documentary

Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Directors: Nick Green, Ben Lawrie, Toby Macdonald | Stars: Alice Roberts, Ben Garrod, Joanna Morgan, Mark Boslough

Votes: 195

13. Sexfish (2019)

88 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Daniel, a biologist studying the disappearance of fish, is haunted by paternity. It is by looking for a woman who could be the mother of his children that he will come across a strange fish and discover what he really lacks: love.

Director: Olivier Babinet | Stars: Gustave Kervern, India Hair, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Okinawa Valérie Guerard

Votes: 197

14. Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999 TV Movie)

92 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Sgriccia | Stars: Parker Stevenson, Mehgan Heaney-Grier, Billy Rieck, Shelli Lether

Votes: 375

15. 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

16. 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: 429

17. First Apocalypse (2008 TV Movie)

TV-PG | Documentary, History

Some scientists challenge the meteor impact theory as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. This program lays out the evidence and considers alternative explanations. The program ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Bakker, David Brin, Luis Chiappe, Philip Currie

Votes: 38

18. 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

19. Living in the Time of Dying (2020)

53 min | Documentary

Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Shaw | Stars: Jem Bendell, Catherine Ingram, Dahr Jamail, Stan Rushworth

Votes: 20

20. Cráter (2021)

67 min | Documentary

El Colegio de la Desextinción documented the holidays of four Divine Caste's descendants. Every year these families move to their opulent summer houses at Chicxulub, built at the same place where the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit.

Directors: Ricardo Benítez Garrido, Diana Cantarey

Votes: 11

21. Amazing Earth (1998 TV Movie)

TV-G | 94 min | Documentary

Catastrophic events alter the planet's appearance.

Director: Brian Skilton | Star: Patrick Stewart

Votes: 69

22. Preludnenie vs. trvalá udrzatelnost (2018)

18 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

What consequences overpopulation brings? What is ecological footprint, carrying capacity and population momentum? What are the results of green technology, futuristic architecture projects,... See full summary »

Director: Peter Kralovic | Star: Peter Kralovic

Votes: 6

23. The Deadliest Pattern in Nature (2023 Video)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary

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Director: Erika | Star: Erika

24. 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.

25. How a Single-celled Organism Almost Wiped Out Life on Earth (2016)

4 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Jeremy Jusay | Star: Julianna Zarzycki

26. Seek Out Natural Mysteries (2020)

150 min | Documentary

The science-and-nature-focused documentary series Seek Out Natural Mysteries depicts the four unsolved mysteries in nature.

Director: Jie Wang | Stars: Jie Wang, Ping Yuan, Huichun Wu, Sam Cheetham

27. Last Call for Tomorrow (2021 Video)

94 min | Documentary

Last Call for Tomorrow reflects on the crises facing all life on Earth. We are witnessing the 6th Mass Extinction of our planet, and it is accelerating faster than most scientists predicted... See full summary »

Directors: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve | Stars: Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Guy R. McPherson, David Suzuki

28. Critical Path (1994 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After an apocalyptic event, a surviving commando team crash lands on an isolated island. Help your comrade Kat escape the tropical island controlled by mad General Minh and his army of lunatics.

Director: Gene Thomas | Stars: Eileen Weisinger, Min Yee, Stuart W. Yee, Brian Bernasconi

Votes: 15

29. Is This the Most Successful Animal Ever? (2021)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Zsuzsanna Kreif | Star: Addison Anderson

30. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Resurrection (1996)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In a post-human dystopian future, an android class society ruled by ruthless sentries has developed. A rebellious android scientist and his assistant clone a human to lead an uprising and repopulate Earth.

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Heather Graham, Nick Mancuso, Patrick Keating, Dana Ashbrook

Votes: 431

31. Naked Science (2004– )
Episode: Colliding Continents (2006)

TV-G | Documentary, Adventure

The history and a projection of the future of the Earth's land masses caused by continental drift is explain by the theory of plate tectonics.

Director: Tom Stubberfield | Stars: Ronald C. Blakey, Samuel A. Bowring, Páll Einarsson, Alex F.M. Kisters

Votes: 18

32. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Origins: Where Are the Aliens? (2004)

TV-PG | Documentary

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores whether life is unique to Earth. "The elements essential to life as we know it are widespread throughout the universe," Tyson says, but no extraterrestrial life has yet been found. Why?

Directors: Julia Cort, Mark Everest, Alice Harper, Larry Klein, Thomas Levenson | Stars: Frank Drake, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Votes: 63

33. Mega Disasters (2006–2008)
Episode: Asteroid Apocalypse (2006)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary

Many scientists now believe that a "killer asteroid" wiped out the dinosaurs and 70% of all living things 160-million years ago. How likely is it that a similar event can occur again? In ... See full summary »

Stars: J.V. Martin, Roger Tilling

Votes: 11

34. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Unexplained Mysteries (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

A few of the astronomical mysteries that bother scientists and the progress toward understanding them are described.

Director: Kevin Barry | Stars: Erik Thompson, Richard Muller, Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrienne Cool

Votes: 88

35. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Cosmic Collisions (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

Collisions between relatively minor bodies in the solar system can have far reaching effects. Astronomers are trying to trace meteors that caused mass extinctions back to the event that ... See full summary »

Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Erik Thompson, Darin Ragozzine, Amy Mainzer, Mike Brown

Votes: 88

36. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: 5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid (2015)

11 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Humankind has developed to the point that we have the technology to defend the Earth form danger asteroid impact.

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

37. Mega Disasters (2006–2008)
Episode: Hypercane (2008)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary

65 million years ago a massive asteroid crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. 75% of all life on earth vanished; but could a single asteroid have been the lone killer? Theories about ... See full summary »

Stars: J.V. Martin, Roger Tilling

Votes: 8

38. Jurassic Fight Club (2008)
Episode: Armageddon (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure

Explains the tragedy an opportunity of mass extinctions then simulates the events before, during and after the chicxulub impact.

Director: Kreg Lauterbach | Stars: Erik Thompson, Thomas Holtz, Larry Dean Martin, George Blasing

Votes: 19

39. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Arctic Dinosaurs (2008)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

Dinosaurs are generally considered tropical animals. So what are their fossils doing north of the arctic circle? Paleontologists battle the fierce climate to find out if the arctic was ... See full summary »

Directors: Ruth Berry, Jackie Mow, Chris Schmidt | Star: Jay O. Sanders

Votes: 40

40. Catastrophe (2008– )
Episode: Planet of Fire (2008)

Documentary

The most catastrophic extinction event in the history of the earth was the Permian Extinction 250 million years ago. Scientists believe this was caused by a massive half million year ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Nelson | Stars: Tony Robinson, Michael J. Benton, Lee Kump, Ira Leifer

Votes: 12

41. Catastrophe (2008– )
Episode: Asteroid Strike (2008)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary

Dinosaurs arose as rulers of the Earth 250 million years ago, but their reign soon ended in catastrophe, paving the way for mammals and eventually humans to flourish. Evidence shows that a ... See full summary »

Directors: Sid Bennett, Simon Bennett | Stars: Tony Robinson, Philip Currie, Dan Durda, Jaelyn Eberle

Votes: 12

42. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: North America (2014)

TV-G | Documentary, History

North America has a storied history which local geologists are happy to explain. It still bears part of the continent of Africa from the collision that joined it to Pangea and formed the ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Richard Allen, Roland Burgmann, Jamie Farrell, Anna Flori-Lamour

Votes: 10

43. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: South America (2014)

TV-G | 52 min | Documentary, History

900 million years ago South America, part of the super continent of Rodina, was finally compete and remains together today. After separating from Rodinia it collided with Africa joining ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Nathalie Cotte, Anna Flori-Lamour, Sharon Mann

Votes: 10

44. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Asia: The Tectonics of Life and Death (2012)

TV-G | 51 min | Documentary, History

Asia was involved in two of the greatest mass extinctions on earth. 251 million years ago the Siberian traps erupted in a massive two million year long volcanic eruption. Scientist ... See full summary »

Directors: Chris Hooke, Yanick Rose | Stars: Eric Buffetaut, Stéphane J. Bureau, Sylvie Crasquin, Christiian France-Lanord

Votes: 10

45. Kurzgesagt: In a Nutshell (2013– )
Episode: The Day the Dinosaurs Died - Minute by Minute (2021)

TV-G | 12 min | Documentary, Animation

After over one hundred million years the world of the dinosaurs cam to an in a less than a day. Here's a step by step account of the havoc one modest sized asteroid caused when it fell to ... See full summary »

Star: Steve Taylor

Votes: 27

46. Anton Petrov (2012– )
Episode: Signs of Powerful Recent Supernova in Ocean Deposits on Earth (2021)

10 min | Documentary, Animation, News

A research team has identified the exceedingly rare isotopes iron-60 and plutonium-244 in core samples from the ocean floor. These isotopes are so difficult to make in nature that not even ... See full summary »

Star: Anton Petrov

47. Real Science! (1994– )
Episode: Why Horseshoe Crab Blood Is So Valuable (2020)

16 min | Family

When bacteria die within the human body they may release endotoxins that are as dangerous as the exotoxins they release while alive. So it is critical that drugs and medical implants are ... See full summary »

Star: Stephanie Sammann

48. PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode: How the Starfish Got Its Arms (2021)

12 min | Documentary

For us bilateral creatures used to anatomical organs coming in pairs, a five armed starfish with radial symmetry seems pretty strange. Yet they evolved from creatures with bilateral ... See full summary »

Stars: Kallie Moore, Joshua Jones

49. SciShow (2012– )
Episode: How to Find Thousands of Oceanic Fossils in... Ohio? (2019)

7 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

A vast multitude of invertebrate fossils lay buried in a region near Cincinnati Ohio called Caesar Creek and thousands of the fossils litter the surface. They formed when Ohio resided near ... See full summary »

Star: Hank Green

50. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Earth's Deadliest Eruption (2010)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The causes of the million year volcanic eruption in the Siberian Traps and the resulting effects that lead to the largest mass extinction in earth's history are recounted.

Director: Kate Dart | Stars: Corey Johnson, James Howard, Clive Oppenheimer, Stephanie Ingle

Votes: 32