Two hours of one car chase, almost entirely practical, across a nuclear desert.
Watch The Quiet Earth (1985), a New Zealand post-apocalyptic sci-fi film directed by Geoff Murphy. It follows scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) who wakes to find he is apparently the last man on Earth after a global energy project misfires. Filmed around Auckland and the Waikato, it is celebrated for its haunting empty-city imagery and a famously ambiguous ending.
George Miller's wasteland in release order, the 1979 original to Furiosa.
Bartertown, two men enter, and Tina Turner running the place.
The war after Judgment Day, with Connor leading the Resistance and a condemned prisoner who does not know what he is.
A tanker chase across the wasteland; the film that defined post-apocalyptic style.
Mel Gibson on an outback highway in the film that cost $350,000 and started a franchise.
The last man in an empty Manhattan, talking to shop mannequins and hunting deer on Fifth Avenue.
The rage virus across three films, 2002 to 2025.
The army repopulates the Isle of Dogs six months on, and the infection restarts inside the quarantine zone.
Fifteen years before Fury Road, and how she lost the arm.
A vault dweller, a ghoul and a knight in the wasteland; the game's tone caught exactly.
Joel and Ellie across a fungus-ravaged America; the video game adaptation that worked.
A butcher's apartment block in a post-apocalyptic France; Jeunet and Caro's bedspring rhythm.
The rage virus three decades on, an island community and a boy's journey to the mainland; Boyle and Garland reunite.
An empty London and rage-infected fast zombies; Boyle on digital video.
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