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In honor of new disaster flick "2012," Fox411 has compiled a list featuring the most famous movies about the destruction of the human race. John Cusack stars in the Friday release, centered on the year 2012, during which the Mayan calendar predicts a global cataclysm which threatens to end life on Earth. Let's revisit Hollywood's previous tales of planetary demolition.![Armageddon]()
This 1998 blockbuster featured an all-star cast (Bruce Willis, Owen Wilson) of "roughneck" drillers recruited by NASA to save the world from a massive asteroid. To top it off, there was the love affair between Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck set to Aerosmith's 'Don't Want to Miss a Thing.' Could a disaster movie be any better? We don't think so.![The Planet of the Apes]()
In this 1968 classic, astronauts in deep hibernation for thousands of years crash land on an unknown planet run by apes whose mouths don't move very well when they speak! Unknown, that is until they figure out they have landed.... Back on post-apocalypse Earth!![The Terminator]()
The Governator stars as a cyborg soldier sent back in time to kill the mother of the unborn future leader of a human resistance movement. Humans must stop machines from destroying humanity! Schwarzenegger declared "I'll be baaaack," and he was right, because there are three more 'Terminator' movies in this excellent franchise.![Independence Day]()
When giant spaceships attack Earth, Will Smith fights off the aliens trying to wipe us out. Everyone loved it.![The Omega Man]()
Charleton Heston (who also starred in "Apes") stars in the original, 1971 version of 'I Am Legend' as a scientist fighting off mutants who have survived a plague. Biological warfare is the cause of this most excellent catastrophe.![Reign of Fire]()
Before he was 'Batman,' Christian Bale was killing dragons in this underrated sci-fi adventure. Matthew McConaughey joins Bale in fighting the fire-breathers, who are trying to take over the planet.![Night of the Living Dead]()
Zombies! The undead chase everyone down in an attempt to eat them, thus ending the human race. Sequel 'Dawn of the Dead' also deserves a mention -- the survivors of the original flick take refuge.![The Day After Tomorrow]()
A global warming-induced Ice Age hits the Earth as hero Jake Gyllenhaal races to get to his son in a fast submerging New York City.![Red Dawn]()
The late Patrick Swayze led the troops in this World War III imagining. In the mid-eighties, Soviet and Cuban troops attack a mid-western High School, forcing a group of teens to flee to the mountains and become guerrilla fighters. Okay life as we know it isn't in jeopardy, but our freedoms are! Plus Swayze rocked.![Children of Men]()
This dystopian sci-fi flick explores a world in which the Earth is threatened by global infertility. Clive Owen's character fights to protect the world's only hope, a young refugee girl.![Deep Impact]()
Morgan Freeman is the lead in this 1998 disaster film. A comet is working out of its orbit, seven miles away and heading for the Earth. A team works to prevent the impending "extinction-level event." Yikes.![Dr. Strangelove]()
Peter Sellers stars in this 1964 black comedy, in which military leaders try to prevent a nuclear apocalypse kicked off by an unhinged U.S. Air Force general. Maybe you've heard of it?![Blindness]()
Based on the book by Jose Seramago, 'Blindness' finds humanity suffering from an epidemic that causes loss of sight. Incredibly creepy.![Apocalypto]()
Mel Gibson's 2006 masterpiece follows a Mayan kingdom facing its decline.![28 Days Later]()
Animal activists unwittingly release a rage-inducing virus on society. Do-gooders! Twenty-eight days later the protagonist (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma in deserted London. Spooky and spectacular.![War of the Worlds]()
This sci-fi classic began with H.G. Wells' 1898 novel about an alien invasion. The tale caused widespread panic during a 1938 radio telling, was made into a movie in 1953, and in 2005 an inferior remake was created starring Tom Cruise.The End Is Near! Apocalyptic Movies
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