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Cli-Fi Films and TV Shows

Not quite sci-fi but cli-fi: climate changes and disasters, which lends itself to big expensive Hollywood disaster movies. These action-packed adventures take place in a world much like our own. Whether the change is caused by man or by nature, humanity has to come together or be destined to fall apart.

Arapahoe Libraries

18 items

  • Land barons are hoarding the dry areas of the country after the coasts are devastated by hurricanes and flooding.
    DVDBurbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment, [2021] — DVD REMINISCENCE
  • Crime lords and assassins battle it out while locked in a hospital during the water riots.
    DVDLos Angeles, CA : Global Road, [2018] — DVD HOTEL
  • When the world freezes over, humanity is forced to live on an ever-moving train for survival. But not all passengers are treated equally, with some benefitting from the machine while others are feeding it.
    Blu-ray Disc[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014] — BLU-RAY SNOWPIERCER
  • This Australian post-apocalypse story kicked off the Mad Max franchise with a new film set to release in 2024.
    DVD[Place of publication not identified] : Crossroads International Finance Company ; [United States] : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. — DVD MAD
  • Gear up for the upcoming thriller Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga with the most recent installment of the Mad Max films staring Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
    DVD[Place of publication not identified] : Warner Bros., [2015] — DVD MAD
  • "The department of water and power. They have all the water and all the power." This post-apocalyptic film has everything from cartoon animated scenes to kangaroo men. What's not to love?
    Streaming VideoMGM, 1995
  • With humanity stranded in space and running out of resources, 100 teenage prisoners are sent back down to Earth to see if it is habitable again. Teenage criminals with no supervision? There's no way that can end badly.
    DVD[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014] — DVD ONE
  • After humans have left the Earth due to polution, it's up to the robots to clean it up. Generations later, a scouting robot discovers plant life growing on Earth, meaning it's time to bring the humans home.
    DVDBurbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment, c2008. — DVD J WALL-E
  • When a massive earthquake decimates parts of California, divorced couple Emma and Ray Gaines have to work together to rescue their daughter stranded in San Francisco.
    DVD[United States] : New Line Turner, 2015. — DVD SAN
  • "Electrolytes, that's what plants crave!" What would you do if you woke up hundreds of years in the future and you were the smartest person alive?
    DVDBeverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007] — DVD IDIOCRACY
  • Three days of weather-related disasters wreak havoc on the globe culminating in the approach on a new ice age.
    DVD[United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004. — DVD DAY
  • Imagine: an avalanche creates a giant wave that threatens Norway. The film is based loosely on a 1934 event that killed 40 (and in 1905, a similar event killed 60).
    DVDLos Angeles, CA : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2016] — DVD WAVE
  • Based on the true story of a family caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Its death count made it one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.
    DVD[United States] : Summit Entertainment : Lionsgate, 2013. — DVD IMPOSSIBLE
  • Based on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which Jon Krakauer immortalized in his bestseller "Into Thin Air."
    DVDUniversal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2016] — DVD EVEREST
  • Tornadoes, tornadoes, and more tornadoes. Guess that's why this film only has a 21% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes?
    DVD[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014] — DVD INTO
  • Inspired by the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D, which destroyed the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
    DVD[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014] — DVD POMPEII
  • When global climate control satellites that should protect Earth start to attack Earth, everything that could go wrong goes wrong in this big budget film that has a 13% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
    DVDBurbank, California : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2018] — DVD GEOSTORM
  • Imagine, no rain for eight years. That's the premise of this 2019 film, which feels close to home with western America experiencing devastating droughts.
    DVDSanta Monica, California : Lionsgate Entertainment, [2019] — DVD FAST