Doomsday Voyage (1972)

Travel Ch. - Doomsday Caught on Camera: Series 1 (2020) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Nov. 12, 2020

Footage of extreme weather and natural disasters, along with commentary from survivors, geologists, meteorologists, theologians and recovery specialists about the powerful wrath of Mother Nature.

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History Channel - Modern Marvels: The Doomsday Clock (2003) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 28, 2015

From the height of the Cold War to the ongoing threat of nuclear holocaust, trace the history of this iconic timepiece. When it first appeared, the hands showed seven minutes to midnight, indicating how close scientists believed the world was coming to doomsday. Over the years, the clock has been reset more than 17 times, as global events have heightened or lessened the risk of nuclear war. Now, History tells the story of this powerful symbol, detailing how artist Martyl Langsdorf, wife of a Manhattan Project physicist, was commissioned to create a symbol representing nuclear danger. Explore the events that led to the clock's two most extreme settings, and hear from the board in charge of changing the clock how they decide when to adjust it. Featuring footage from some of the most remarkable events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Doomsday Clock is captivating look at the symbolic public warning system that has become a part of history.

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Doomsday Movies

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Doomsday (2008)
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

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History Channel - Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End (2016) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Jan. 3, 2017

Each episode of Doomsday: 10 Ways the World Will End opens with strange and frightening phenomena erupting across the globe: glass rains from the sky, a hole appears in the atmosphere, gravity becomes distorted, global communications break down, mass illness descends. We come to discover that these are the effects of catastrophic events that new research reveals could hit planet earth: a rogue planet collision, a gamma ray burst, methane seabed eruption, nuclear war. Through incredible CGI, we rewind to the beginning of the disaster to reveal what is happening.

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PBS - NOVA: Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday (2013) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 1, 2017

The asteroid that exploded in the skies over Siberia injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities was a shocking reminder that Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting range. From the width of a football field to the size of a small city, these space rocks have the potential to be killers. In a collision with Earth, they could set off deadly blast waves, raging fires, and colossal tidal waves. But some audacious entrepreneurs look up at asteroids and see payday, not doomsday. Some asteroids are loaded with ele¬ments that could be worth billions of dollars: iron, nickel, and even platinum.

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BBC Our World - Journey to the Doomsday Glacier (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 8, 2020

Antarctica is one of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Justin Rowlatt joins an international team of scientists travelling to Thwaites, the so-called Doomsday Glacier. The team wants to discover why it is melting so quickly - science with implications for us all. But during the trip the weather closes in, playing havoc with their plans. Will the expedition succeed in unlocking the secrets of the glacier? And just how hard is it to live and work in such an extreme environment at the end of the world?

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Doomsday (2008) Movies

Posted by DrPalmer at July 30, 2010

Doomsday is a 2008 British science fiction action film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film takes place in the future, where Scotland has been quarantined due to the onset of a deadly virus. When the virus breaks out in London, political leaders send Major Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) to Scotland to find a cure based on evidence of survivors. Sinclair and her team run into two groups of survivors: marauders and medieval warriors. Doomsday was conceived by Marshall based on his vision of a futuristic soldier facing a medieval knight.

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PBS NOVA - Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday? (2013) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Jan. 4, 2017

The asteroid that exploded over Siberia—injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities—was a shocking reminder that Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting range. From the width of a football field to the size of a small city, these space rocks have the potential to be killers. In a collision with Earth, they could set off deadly blast waves, raging fires and colossal tidal waves. But some audacious entrepreneurs look up at asteroids and see payday, not doomsday. Some asteroids are loaded with billions of dollars’ worth of elements like iron, nickel, and platinum.

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Sci Ch. - Unearthed: Pompeii's Doomsday Mummies (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 17, 2018

New discoveries at Pompeii's last unexplored area reveal the dark secrets of the doomsday event that destroyed it, and recently unearthed mummies might help answer Pompeii's most enduring mystery: why it was built on an active volcano.

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Discovery Channel - Cold War Submarine Adventures: K-19 Doomsday Submarine (2002) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 21, 2020

The true story of the disastrous first combat patrol of the Hotel Class submarine K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine. Story was later made into a movie starring Harrison Ford, but this is a real-life documentary on K-19 including rare footage, interviews, and computer simulated footage.

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