Fritz Leiber’s A Pail of Air is a unique view of life on Earth after the end of the world. This inspires us to categorise end of the world movies, and somehow we spend a lot of time talking about Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (a.k.a. Tarzan and the Lost City).
Links:
A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber [Galaxy, December 1951]:
https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v03n03_1951-12.GalaxyAKv1.0/mode/2up
On the Beach [1959]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9tweuR450A
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebK28BMj60
X Minus One episode “A Pail of Air” [March 28, 1956]:
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/sci-fi/x-minus-one/a-pail-of-air-1956-03-28
A Bad Day for Sales by Fritz Leiber [Galaxy, July 1953]:
https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1953-07/mode/2up
Knowing (2009):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-v_3rlqEw
Last Night (1998):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNpt1GRWwM
Battle: Los Angeles (2011) Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7ofokzn04
Edge of Tomorrow (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GEEMaVuFPE
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank [1959]:
https://archive.org/details/alasbabylonnovel00fran
