As the world collapses due to an escalated nuclear crisis, a young boy and a man’s lives are joined together as they escape from New York to Iceland. They start a new life of survival there as the world gets dark and cold, but they need the sun to reappear in order to survive long-term.

A mother must learn to reorient her family's dynamics when the Chernobyl disaster in their hometown separates them from their grandmother, who chooses to stay inside the contaminated area.

A bombardier is selected to drop an atomic bomb on Japan, but he is morally opposed to his assignment.

A 33-year-old woman living in an apocalyptic Scotland with her husband writes in her diary about the tribulations of their lives and their pilgrimage to Russia in hope of a more stable existence.

After it is announced that an apocalyptic event that will destroy all life in the universe, an astrophysicist and her gardener mother meet in near-future England to decide how to spend the last months of life.

After the collapse of civilization, a group of men meets weekly to read classic novels and listen to records on a portable phonograph, bringing them great joy but unbearable distress at remembering how the world used to be.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a young boy in the last family on Earth wonders if he has just spotted the face of another survivor.

During the buildup to the Cuban missile crisis, a sixth-grade boy in upstate New York accidentally interrupts a mechanical man from the future on a mysterious mission to prevent nuclear annihilation. The man entrusts this mission to the boy, who learns that to save the world he must kill a US Senator.

During the buildup to the Cuban missile crisis, a sixth-grade boy in upstate New York accidentally interrupts a mechanical man from the future on a mysterious mission to prevent nuclear annihilation. The man entrusts this mission to the boy, who learns that to save the world he must kill a US Senator.

In an Alaskan war camp during the apocalypse, a former microbiologist butchers the only form of meat left for consumption: the corpses of her deceased neighbors.