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101 Top Movies for Preppers
Movies on aliens, atomics, pandemics, zombies and more

Best survival movies for preppers.
Grab some popcorn and prepper movie. From the alien apocalypse
to zombie apocalypse, below you'll find 101 of the best survival
movies (or made for television movies, documentaries and series)
just for preppers. These are for your entertainment and while you
may learn a little, it's important to consider that this is fictional
fun or Hollywood interpretation of actual combat situations or
survival, it's not the real deal.

Some of the b est survival movies can teach you about prepping
and survival. We hope you will prepare for the worst and hope for
the best with this movie list...

101+ of the Best Movies for Preppers
We promised you a list of the 101 best movies for preppers, but
our list is growing. Here are the top 101+ movies for preppers
(along with a list of classic favorites):

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). After a car crash, a woman
wakes up in a survivalist's bunker. He claims to have saved
her from an apocalyptic attack but, growing suspicious of his
motives, she'll have to escape to discover the truth. See the
trailer for 10 C loverfield Lane.
28 Days Later (2003) – Zombie horror pandemic and
devastation ensues.
2012 (DVD release 2010) – Molten lava hits the fan with a
Nostradamus-style loophole in the Mayan calendar! With
shifting continental plates, sun flares, and collapsing cities,
this apocalyptic movie has it all.
A Cry in the Wild (DVD release 2000) – A survival story of a
kid with nothing more than a hatchet thrown into the wilds
of the Canadian wilderness by a plane crash.
After Armageddon by the History Channel (DVD release 2011)
– Unarguably the best docudrama for preppers about a
societal collapse following a pandemic. This made for T.V
story, packed with expert commentary, is about how both
luck and preparedness may affect survival.
Aftershock (2012): Massive earthquake strikes Chili, and
only one thing is more chilling than mother nature: human
American Blackout by National Geographic (2014) –
Docudrama about what would transpire if a cyber-attack were
to cripple America's electronic infrastructure.
American Sniper. American Sniper
Apocalypse 101 by National Geographic (2013) –
Survivalist owners of Forge Survival Supply (former Marines)
share their expertise with people who want to be prepared
for the unexpected.
Apocalypse How by Discovery Channel (2008) – This
documentary of how an apocalypse could arrive (volcanic
eruption, widespread plague, deadly asteroids, neighboring
stars, and nuclear and biological weapons).
Babylon AD (2008) – Vin Diesel stars... The rules are
simple: kill or be killed. Watch Babylon AD for free at the
link above.
Behind Enemy Lines (2002) – A fighter navigator, who
wants out of the Navy, gets shot down over war-torn Bosnia.
His rescue operation is hamstrung by politics.
Blindness (2008) – A mysterious epidemic of blindness
sweeps through a city; and soon the afflicted face the
chaotic breakdown of social order.
Britain Blackout by National Geographic (circa 2011) – Not
currently available on DVD, this docudrama is the UK version
of American Blackout and well worth seeing!
Cabin Fever (2002) – A flesh eating disease shaves off
faces.
Castaway (2000) – The movie with few words and Tom
Hanks.
Catching Fire (2013) –The sequel to the Hunger Games –
Survival is a game well played by Katniss.
Carriers (2009) – A mysterious virus breaks out in the U.K.
and a band of survivors attempts to outrun it and save
themselves.
City of Ember (2008) – An underground city suffers a
massive power fail, and two young townspeople follow clues
left by the ancient builders yo find a way out of embers.
Collapse (2010) – The story of Michael Ruppert, a former Los
Angeles police office, whose eerie prediction of the current
financial crisis shocked millions.
Contagion (2012) – A pandemic (lethal airborne virus) is born
Dances with Wolves –
Dante's Peak (1997)– A long-dormant volcano is about to
erupt
Dark City
Dawn of the Dead (2004)– true horror flick with zombie
blood and gore where aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take
refuge in a megamall.
Defiance (2013) – A transformed planet Earth sets the
landscape for the arrival of seven unique alien races.
Deep Impact – A comet collides with earth.
Dirty War (2004) – A terrorist operation reaches fruition.
Doomsday (2008) – Disaster threatens the human race.
Doomsday Preppers (2012) – ordinary Americans who are
preparing for the end of the world as we know it.
Dual Survival (2011) – Military-trained Dave Canterbury and
barefooted naturalist Cody Lundin are trained survival
experts who take on the elements to show you survival skills.
Electronic Armageddon National Geographic (2010) – A
documentary on the science behind the dangers of a high-
altitude electromagnetic pulse.
Extreme Survival - Season 1 (2005) – Part of the Discovery
Channel series Extreme Survival, season one divulges the
Secrets to Survival: Mountain Escape.
Escape from L.A. (circa 2000) – The actual title of the
movie is John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. - Kurt Russell
stars. An earthquake separates Los Angeles from the rest of
California and the United States and it becomes a penal
colony.
Escape from New York (2010) – The sequel to John
Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
Goodbye World – mysterious cyber attack cripples
America's electronic infrastructure
Hunger games (2012) – Survival is a game well played by
Katness. See also Catching Fire.
I am Legend (2007) – Will Smith stars as a brilliant
scientist who could not contain an unstoppable virus.
I am Omega (2010) – The survivor of a deadly plague lives
in isolation and watches for infected zombies that hunt him.
Another survivor holds the key to immunity and the antidote.
Into the Storm (2014) – The town of Silverton is ravaged by
an onslaught of tornadoes and deadly cyclones.
Into the Wild (2008) – I nto the Wild is a cautionary tale of
idealism gone awry, "Alexander Supertramp" leaves behind
family, friends and his education to venture to the wilds of
Alaska with little provisions or experience: only books.
Into the White (DVD release 2013) – Enemies in World War
II become allies in survival. After crash-landing their planes,
the survivors seek refuge in an isolated cabin and withstand
a harsh spring in the mountainous wilderness of Norway.
It's a Disaster (2012) – A mysterious city attack occurs, as
friends have brunch and an impromptu therapy session.
Trapped in the house and unsure of their fates, this is a rare
comedy for preppers to enjoy.
Jericho (2007) – The first season of the favorite prepper T.V.
series. A mushroom cloud appears in the Kansas town and
the residents of Jericho are cut off from civilization in the
wake of this nuclear blast.
Life After People (2008) – A History Channel exploration
about if humans were to suddenly disappear, what would
happen to the planet.
Live Free or Die hard (2007) - Bruce Willis stars in a three-
pronged cyberattack designed to bring down the entire
country by crippling its transportation, finances, and utilities.
Lord of the flies (1990) – Military school kids are castaways
on a deserted island thrust into unusual rules of survival
after a plane crash.
Mad Max Fury Road (2015). From director George Miller
comes the fourth adventure in the Mad Max film series. In a
post-apocalyptic world, Max (Hardy) teams up with a
mysterious woman, Furiosa (Theron), to try and survive.
Man versus Wild (2013) –Bear Grylls navigates through
remote locations sharing his survival strategies.
Man Woman Wild (2011) – This Discovery Channel
documentary sends Mykel Hawke, a former Special Forces
survival expert and his wife Ruth, a TV journalist, to remote
locations where they must survive as a team.
Mountain Men: Season 1 (2013) – Documentary from the
television series popular with preppers, meet Eustace
Conway, Tom Oar and Marty Meierotto: the mountain men
living off the grid. From mud slides, falling trees, ravaging
weather and savage animals, the mountain men forage off
the land. (Look also for Mountain Men: season 2).
Noah (DVD release date 2014) – Starring Russell Crowe...
The biblical story of Noah, found in the book of Genesis,
comes to life.
Out of the Wild The Alaska Experiment (2009) – Nine
volunteers test their endurance after a crash course in
survival by getting stranded in the rugged Alaskan interior,
with only part of a map, some basic tools to get back to
society.
Pandemic (2007) – Tiffani-Amber Thiessen stars. A man dies
on flight following a raging fever and violent convulsions. It
bird flu, a biological attack, or worse, a new virus?
Passengers of the flight pass it on in Los Angels. The virus is
spreading, and so is the panic and the fear that it can’t be
stopped.
Pandemic (2009) A veterinarian finds herself in the midst of
a horrifying pandemic where humans and animals are
stricken with a horrible contagious disease. When the
military quarantines the area and cuts off all
communications, she must pair up with an eccentric
conspiracy theorist as they fight to discover the true source
of the threat and expose it or risk a viral threat more
devastating than anything the world has ever seen!
Phase 7 (2011) – A man and his pregnant wife land a new
apartment, when suddenly they find themselves in a
quarantined because of a deadly flu outbreak
Revolution (2012) – The great blackout happens in EMP
style this television series about a world without electricity
and adventures to unravel the mystery of how it all
happened.
Right at your Door (2006) A dirty bomb brings a toxic cloud
in Los Angeles.
Seven Alone (2010) – It's 1842 in America's unclaimed and
unexplored land and the Sager family travels from Missouri to
Oregon. Seven children continue the journey their parents
began, a feat that truly defines the pioneer spirit.
Signs (2002) – Mel Gibson handles an alien invasion with a
sticks and stones ingenuity.
Splinter (2008) – A mutant disease causes needles to poke
out of skin.
Stake Land (2011) – America has fallen. A vampire scourge
sweeps the nation.
Stranded: The Alive Story as You've Never Seen it (2009)
Surviving Civil Unrest (2013) – Surviving Civil Unrest focuses
on how to get from point A to B if there is a major disaster
in your area.
Survivor Man (2007) – This television series documentary
features Les Stroud placed into extreme environments for
seven days surviving completely alone with virtually no
supplies.
Take Shelter (2011) – Is it mental illness or a prepping
intuition? Find out as one make Takes Shelter with his family.
Testament (1983) – A woman and her three frightened
children face the unthinkable - the devastating aftermath of
a nuclear attack.
The After: Season 1 (2104) – Amazon Original Series.
Eight strangers(See also, The Day After). Watch Episode 1 in
HD for free, pictured right.
The Apocalypse Collection (1998-2000) nuclear holocaust
looms, millions of people suddenly vanish! Chaos reigns as
two news anchors try to discover what happened.
The Book of Eli (2010)- A tale of post-apocalyptic America
revolves around the message of an important book.
The Colony (2013) – In an ice age a colony is surviving
underground. Colonists having a sniffle could jeopardize the
others and are set into quarantine or banishment.
The Crazies (2010) – A chemical spill poisons the water and
begins a murder spree.
The Darkest Hour (2011): Aliens attack the power supply in
Moscow
The Day (2011) This is a fight or die type movie set in post
apocalyptic scene where a band five try to stay alive.
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – The effects of a global
warming creates catastrophic hyper-hurricanes, tornadoes,
floods and a new ice age.
The Divide (2011) – Survivors of a Nuclear attack band
together in their apartment building.
The Donner Party (2010) – A harrowing true story of how
pioneers along the Oregon trail steered off course with hopes
of a shorter route through the Sierra Nevada mountains
found themselves in the dead of winter without enough
provisions for all.
The Edge (2002) – A plane crash in the snowy Alaskan
wilderness pits a brutal struggle for survival between two
men (Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins).
The Grey (2012) – A plane crashes into the remote Alaskan
wilderness. The survivors must escape the icy elements and
wolves.
The Happening (2008) – Mark Wahlberg stars... A natural
disaster threatens to end civilization: pollution has been
built to a point that causes a global backlash.
The Patriot (1999) – Stephen Segal (not the Mel Gibson
version): A top immunologist moves to a small town in
Montana, then a violent extremist group unleashes a lethal
biological agent and takes over the town.
The Plague (1992) Based on a book by Albert Camus
The Postman (2009)– Kevin Costner stars... War has
crippled the Earth. Technology has been erased.
The Road (2009) – A post apocalyptic tale and a journey
past cannibalism, this is a prepper favorite.
The Signal (2007) – A horror story where a mysterious
transmission through cell phones radio and televisions turns
everyone into killers.
The Stand (1994) –After a government-spawned superflu
wipes out more than 90 percent of the earth's population,
survivors must decide whether to support or resist the
advances of a mysterious stranger.
The Sum of All Fears () – Terrorism of a nuclear device
strikes the Superbowl!
The Trigger Effect (1996) – When the power goes out in
the big city and society starts to break down, not even
suburbia is safe. Get your prescriptions in order before you
watch this movie.
The Walking Dead - Season! (2013) – In this television
series, a man searches for his family in a world terrorized by
the walking dead.
The Way Back (2013 ) – A true story of seven prisoners in
1940 who attempt escape from a Siberian landscape with
little food or supplies. Together, they withstand extremes.
This is the End (2013)– A comedy that gets out of hand.
Partygoers are faced with the apocalypse.
Toxic Skies (2008) – Two strangers search for the cure of a
mysterious epidemic caused by the government's secret
chemtrails.
Training for the Apocalypse by National Geographic (DVD
release 2012) – Documentary of two preppers whose
experiences prompted them to prepare for Armageddon.
Twister (1996) – Classic disaster movie made about
tornadoes (twisters).
Water World (1995) – Kevin Costner stars... Earth is
covered with water and the human race struggles to survive
on dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities.
War of the Worlds (2005) – Tom Cruise stars... Alien
machines invade the world in the remake of a classic.
White Fang (1991) – Disney's version of Jack London's tale
of courage and survival and of taming a wolf dog in the great
Alaskan frontier.
World War Z (2013) - A zombie pandemic starring Brad Pitt
for the prepper ladies. Pitt attempts to help stop the global
pandemic.
World's End (DVD release 2013) – A strange comedy: one
night, five friends, twelve bars – a boozy quest on which only
the strongest will survive. But after a bizarre series of
encounters with the out-of-this-world locals.
Young Pioneers (2013) – Newlywed homesteaders start
their life together in the Dakota Territory and endure harsh
winters, and a swarm of grasshoppers as stake their claim.
ZombieLand (2009) – Sisters work their way across a
zombie-filled America to get to an amusement park.

Bonus List of Movies for Preppers (Oldies but Goodies):

12 Monkeys (1985) - An Ebola like virus breaks out in Zaire
was an eerie premonition.

A Boy And his dog (1975) – It's 2024 and World War IV has
ravaged Earth: survivors battle for food, shelter and
companionship in a post-atomic wasteland.
Alive (1983) – Based on a true story, a team of rugby players
survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered
Andes.
Alone in the Wilderness (DVD release 2003) – A slow but
moving documentary of Dick Proenneke, a self-sufficient
craftsman, who left civilization to forge a solitary life deep in
the wilds of Alaska in the 1950s.
Children of Men (2006) – It's 2027 and women are infertile;
however a miraculous woman is pregnant and heads to a
sanctuary.
Earthquake (1974) – Charlton Heston stars... Citizens come
together when a catastrophic earthquake rips through
Southern California.
Empire in the Sun (1987) – A young boy survives on
determination in the face Japan invading Shanghai on
December 8, 1941.
Enemy of the State (1998)– Will Smith and Gene
Hackman star in this cautionary tale of substance. Bring on
the conspiracy theories (the character's birthday was "9/11"
three years before the day the Twin Towers vanished from
the skyline.
Invasion USA (1985) – Chuck Norris stars... Terrorism, riots
and martial law invade.
Jerimiah Johnson (1979) – Robert Redford stars in this
powerful epic of a man who turns his back on civilization and
learns a new code of survival in a brutal land of isolated
mountains and hostile Indians.
Madmax Beyond Thunderdome (1985) –The sequel to
Madmax the Road Warrior.
Madmax the road Warrior (1979) – Mel Gibson stars... A
gang of nomadic bikers and cops play an apocalyptic death
game.
Never Cry Wolf (2004) – Disney presents the story of an
inexperienced biologist is thrust alone in a desolate Arctic
terrain.
MacGyver (circa 1985) – Television series.
Outbreak (1997)- U.S. Army SWAT team comes in after an
Ebola outbreak among monkeys.
Panic in the Year Zero (1963) – Los Angeles is demolished
by a nuclear attack; next comes looting and robbing. A family
hides in an isolated fishing cabin only to find more danger.
The Day After (1983) – A made for TV movie on nuclear
holocaust from the cold war, which terrified America back in
the day.
The Last Man on Earth (1964) – Vincent Price stars... The
classic tale of the last survivor of a horrific plague who fights
to stay alive in a world of flesh-eating zombies.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) – Ranking No. 21 on the
American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American
films, this 1940 film starring Henry Fonda, is the film version
of John Steinbeck's epic tale of the Great Depression.
Red Dawn (1984)– This one is for American patriots
(communist invaders descend a small Colorado town). There
is a remake, which has not received
Soylent Green (1973) – In the year 2022, the greenhouse
effect has poisoned the Earth. Charleston Heston stars. A
high-energy plankton food is in short supply and high
demand.
Swiss Family Robinson (1960) – Shipwrecked in the South
Seas on a deserted island, Disney takes us on a classic
adventure with the courageous Robinson family who deal
with pirates and face survival with love.
Volcano (1997) – Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a
raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a storm of
deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon
the stunned city.

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