An EMP attack can either happen because of an electromagnetic device being detonated in the air, or it can also result in the aftermath of a nuclear strike as well. When detonated high enough into the atmosphere, an EMP attack will result in the electrical power grid completely collapsing.
There will be no electricity, internet, cell service, or running water. Most vehicles with computerized components will be unable to work and those driving on the road will shut off and crash. The world’s supply chains and financial services will come to a complete standstill as well.
If this is difficult for you to wrap your mind around, watching EMP movies that revolve around the subject might help you visualize what an EMP attack would truly look like.
Here are the best EMP movies (and shows) that you should watch as soon as possible, presented in the order that they were released:
Goldeneye (1995)
Goldeneye is the 17th James Bond movie that was released.
The film follows 007 as he travels to Russia searching for an EMP device called “Goldeneye” that’s gone missing (hence the name of the film).
While this action thriller does not revolve around an apocalyptic-level event from an EMP attack, early on the movie does clearly showcase what an EMP weapon would do in a sequence where “Goldeneye” is detonated above a Russian military base, resulting in all power and computers being knocked out instantly and airplanes falling out of the sky.
Just imagine what would happen if an EMP weapon went off in the vicinity of commercial airliners, and you’ll get an idea of how serious an EMP attack would be.
The Day After (1983)
This is a classic made-for-TV movie that provides a chilling portrayal of the aftermath of a nuclear war as well as its EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) attack on the United States.
The Day After focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and explores the devastating effects of the attack.
The film is known for its realistic depiction of the immediate consequences of a nuclear attack and subsequent EMP. When it was released at the height of the Cold War during the Reagan era, it woke much of the American public up to what a nuclear war would look like.
Threads (1984)
A British production, Threads is a harrowing portrayal of a nuclear war and its EMP consequences on the city of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
The film was compared to The Day After following its release, only for showing the effects in the U.K. rather than the U.S.A.
Threads doesn’t shy away from the brutal realities of societal collapse, depicting the breakdown of infrastructure, government, and social order that occurs after the attack.
Jericho (2006-2008)
Jericho is a post-apocalyptic show that focuses on the residents of Jericho, a small town located in the middle of Kansas as they band together to survive in a post-apocalyptic America where each of the major cities have been obliterated in a nuclear strike.
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Later in the show, things become even more desired when an EMP attack knocks out all power and electronics, forcing the characters to have to figure out how to survive and live without many of the essentials of modern day living.
Red Dawn (2012)
Red Dawn is a 2012 remake of the 1984 film of the same name.
The original 1984 version depicted American teenagers leading a guerilla resistance against a Soviet-led invasion of the United States of America in an alternate reality where NATO had collapsed.
The remake is different in more ways than one, with the teenagers this time fighting against a Russian-backed North Korean invasion that utilized an EMP weapon to cripple the U.S. electrical grid before invading.
The Road (2009)
Based on Cormac McCarthy’s classic novel, this post-apocalyptic film follows a father and son as they navigate a desolate landscape after an unspecified catastrophic event.
While not explicitly EMP-themed, the movie captures the bleakness and struggle for survival characteristic of an EMP-induced societal collapse that clearly has resulted in the loss of the power grid.
The lack of infrastructure and resources in the film showcases the challenges that would be faced in a real-life EMP scenario.
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Revolution (2012-2014)
Revolution is another post-apocalyptic show that takes place in a future America where all power and electricity has become disabled. While not mentioned as an EMP attack specifically, the show does depict an environment very similar to what an EMP attack would create as the characters are forced to survive in a world that has been pushed back to the pre-industrial era.
American Blackout (2013)
Even though it’s not a traditional narrative film, this National Geographic-produced docudrama presents a fictionalized scenario of a nationwide blackout caused by a cyber attack on the power grid.
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The film combines dramatized storytelling with real-life footage and expert interviews to explore the societal breakdown and individual struggles during an extended power outage.
While the focus is on the cyber attack, the film touches on the vulnerability of the power grid, which will give you an idea of what an EMP attack would look like.
Each of the above EMP movies are equally as entertaining as they are as effective at visualizing for us what the world might look like following an EMP attack. Give any of them a watch if you’d like to see what an EMP weapon could do, and use that inspiration to take action to start getting prepared.
When it comes to protecting your electronics from the threat of an EMP, the traditional Faraday cage might seem like the go-to solution. But let’s face it: they’re bulky, unwieldy, and frankly, not as reliable as we’d hope.
That’s why I wish more people knew about the EMP Cloth. This cloth was developed after years of extensive research by top U.S. scientists and it provides 98% military-grade protection against electromagnetic waves. You can cover everything in it – as long as you’ve got enough of them – from credit cards, laptop, a fridge and even your car!
The thing is, the EMP Cloth isn’t always available. They don’t restock them that often because they’re pretty hard to produce, so it took YEARS for me to finally get my hands on it. I found a reliable website to order it from, as I wanted to make sure the material is the right one. I recommend you secure your own cloth from here. It’s a rare find and not many people get to own it, which is a shame.
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Red Dawn is already here by the real open southern border, the Chinese have secret bioweapons labs here. They have military bases in disguise of farms next to our military bases. The floods of Chinese nationals are the force to man such attacks through the sanctuary cities in America.
China has Mandarin schools teaching kids after regular public school to speak Chinese and indoctrination of Chinese philosophy.
Thank you liberals in both political parties to vote in Biden who is a puppet of the Chines, shame on you all.
Remember the terrorist attacks in America were usually by one or two people. With the invasion influx of border getaways how many groups of Bidenomics soldiers would it take with these hordes of the open border to do real damage to America?
Americans are in snowflake mode when just one active shooter does mass shootings. What happens when these illegal groups really start to wreck havoc, will Americans step up or step down as Sheeple?
November presidential election is American’s last gasp for freedom.
God bless America!
Free press under fire: Steve Baker’s battle … and ours
Steve Baker is an investigative reporter for Blaze News. He’s been working on investigating the holes in the narrative of what happened on January 6. He’s mild-mannered and a sweetheart of a guy. And on Friday morning, he turned himself in to the FBI. They told him he should come in shorts and flip-flops because it would be easier for them to put on the orange jumpsuit and ankle irons. Suffice it to say, he wore a suit and tie. – Blaze Media
My friends in California are telling me the Demoncrat political ads are outright attacking the right or so called MAGA candidates by the Demo party. In particular Adam Shit or Shiff, whatever.
The leftist Marxist party there are absolutely telling their voters how bad Steve Garvey is for running for political office. Character assassination of a retired baseball figure who is conservative. The Sacramento attacks ads against republicans. It’s just getting started to smear any one not on board with the head honcho CA gov Newsom or as Trump said Newscum.
California was the golden state unreal the Demoncrats took over and bankrupted the state politically as they are doing in other states in the USA.
The negative vote is a Californian Demoncrat that can’t handle the truth.
Stay frosty!
Bushwick is pretty good.
What is not funny is all those Washington Deep State politicians, congress, State and Federal bureaucrats all take roughly the same oath of office as do the military to protect and defend America from foriegn and domestic terrorist.
Those officials are in violation of the oath taken and must be imprisoned, impeached or fired immediately from office.
They have failed us and lied to us during their candidacy of false promises made. That is why Trump and others are being harassed because they bring home the bacon of promises made. Yes they are not perfect and look what we have in office at the White House.
Don’t the same voting mistake this November presidential election our country can not afford another Bidenomics 4 years of mistakes.
If you want to go back in the movies try 1962 Panic in the year Zero
Ray Milland, Frankie Avalon, Jean Hagen. A Family coming home to Los Angles, from a camping tryp. And the father is driving and, in the distance, they see the brightest lights lighting up the sky early in the morning. The father stops the car turns around, and starts heading back up into the mountains. By using only the back roads. Watch the rest of the movie. I’m going to be 73 years young the 27 of this month. That started me thinking what I learned as a Boy Scout, to always be prepared for anything these days more then anything else. Just watch the movie.
I love this movie. Not a fan of how whiny Ray Miland’s wife gets.
Just watched the movie. I agree with Maggie about the wife.. should also add the daughter as well. I think this is a pretty accurate portrayal of what can be expected after a nuclear attack, but I don’t know about an EMP attack. With EMP, I believe it will take hours before people will understand what has happened, and even then, they won’t want to believe it.
I definitely agree that this should be a must watch movie.
That was a good one. Amazon had that available a few years ago for free. As for Maggie’s comment about the “whiny wife”. Nobody likes a whiner. But it does happen. I’ve watched normally together people start whining in a prolonged “crisis”. I even know a couple whose relationship never recovered. On that note, happy birthday
Good movie, thanks for bringing it to the surface!
Yesterday the tale of two cities or two presidents at the southern border.
Trump at the real illegal crossing and Biden at the cleaned up dog and pony show where maybe a trickle of illegals where.
The real border crossing by the Mexican drug cartels is in San Diego, California of a welcoming sanctuary state governor Newsom or Newscum. San Diego is where Chinese national military age male female are infiltrating the border and state to do us harm. You don’t need to be an Arnold Schwarzenegger comando to cause harm.
Ask the surviving vets of the Pacific WWII combat, the enemy smaller but effective in numbers. Such as real time illegals are in large numbers crossing the borders, North and South.
Americans have been lied to by their politicians to why we have to let the whole world into America.
We got more trouble besides this article today, in Texas so far one million acres and cattle are destroyed by fire.
The United Nation Cabal can’t quite yet take our guns away from patriotic Americans at this time. So they enlist the vegans and the military age males and females, illegals flooding our southern border to do the UN’s dirty work.
Biden administration is the perfect vehicle to erase America’s independence make us subservient to China for EV’s, solar panels and wind mills for energy.
Rather then using our God given resources of gas, oil and coal, as being used in China, India and other countries.
God bless America!
Why has the Chinese bought up our farmland cheap maybe Biden is giving them a payback for all those billions or trillions Washington DC borrowed from China to keep America from going broke. Or Biden and company are a part of the Chinese takeover of America?
I have no proof of my allegations but. I think that what the U.S. used as collateral for all the money we got from China, was our OIL. We have vast deposits of oil in Alaska and the lower 48 . If it was used as collateral, and China calls in the loan, we are screwed. China would say the oil belongs to them now, and by our own laws, we can’t stop from collecting what is theirs. There is no way in my mind that China would LOAN the U.S. any kind of money WITHOUT some kind of collateral. The are buying up land and companies because they can, and we are letting them. They now have a legal way to bring in large numbers of their people to run those operations. They will OWN the oil, and the land and have the people in place to protect it. Just my opinion. L.W.McQueary / oldtroll57 at g mail dot com / PS: I really hope I am wrong, but I don’t think so. I just glad I won’t be alive much longer to see the results of OUR nation’s greed and stupidity.
To pollute our lands and food products. Here in Michigan brave 🇺🇸 Americans took back (or rather fired) their government in Green Township.
They stopped a Chinese battery plant from polluting & setting up shop along the banks of America’s largest source of fresh water —the Great Lakes.
Logistics for the invasion
In Texas the question is about the wildfires who are what started it??? I would not put it past the Biden controlled thug doing this either on the ground or the use of an energy weapon.
UN inspired vegans, no more farms, dairy, cattle, livestock or beef, even no more pets, meat eaters unite.
Chinese have open meat markets including cats, dogs and endangered wildlife, make sure we keep an eye on our pets and backyard livestock.
The wildfires in Texas, California and recently in other states are designed to move the population into 15 minute city lifestyle, you own nothing. Thanks to Bidenomics, thanks liberals for nothing.
We do know there are energy weapons developed and climate geoengineering going on around the world by governments.
It is not science friction anymore.
We got AI involved in our daily media, programed by liberal software techs, what could go wrong?
A Black faced pope or Washington, Gaagle Gemini reprogramming history, what’s next?
Can you imagine AI teamed up with Boston Dynamics robots as the new SkyNet?
The Chinese released a bioweapon on the world, no accountability?
Erin Liberty,
You still have a gov Witless in charge, Flint MI is still suffering.
NY has K Hooker in charge, with all the Trump hating DA’s and Judges indicting a conservative sandwich in a lopsided NY court of liberal law.
We still have Antifa and BLM walking free while the political J6th prisoners rot in prison, sound like a banana republic, maybe?
If you read the Declaration of Independence again you can see what they fought a revolution over because of ill treatment and heavy handedness is happening right now. To Donald Trump. His 1st, 4th, 8th amendment rights are gone. His lawyers have been frightened to quit. J6 dude if you have been imprisoned wrongfully, as a patriot I feel terrible for you. I know two men who have served time for doing nothing wrong on J6. Sorry lot we have. The reasons we are on here and preparing is because of politics. Straighten your back and stiffen your resolve.
John 3:16
why wasn’t Leave the World Behind listed in there… I’m not a least bit of a Obama’s, but I thought the movie to be thought provoking … Not sure how the Obama’s fit into this movie making and really could care less.. Just wandering on other folks ideas and thoughts of this movie?
What the heck are you trying to say? Comrade?
I read the book “One Second After” approximately 12-years ago and have been prepping ever since.
Forstchen also wrote 2 more books in the series, One Year After and The Final Day.
Great read! We’ve read all 3 books; One Second After, One Year After and The Final Day! Another great series for preppers is the Going Home Series by A. American! A 10 book series that highly relates to prepping and survival!
Love the EMP genre, got hooked to it after listening to Lights Out and later to Going Home series from A. American.
Taxpayers bailout other countries border security, Ukraine retirements, borders first. Americans get squat to fix our economy and secure the border wall because of Bidenomics.
Who say one Marxist jerk can ruin our America without accountability?
Who is writing Biden’s Q cards, that is who is running our America into the ground?
One puppet can take out oil drilling and open the southern border by executive orders and getting paid by the Chinese government is not right.
Biden wants Americans to start a civil war so Biden/Obama can implement
Martial Law, which would be the final nail in Americans freedom.
There are many ways before starting something like a mass civil disobedience. The sanctuary states have let out jailbirds from many prisons for what?
Maybe house the American public that won’t be Sheeple, maybe?
It’s your America, what will you do, hide in a bunker?
Remember what they did on Jan6th to us innocent bystanders.
They can try and implement Martial law. It may work in Blue Cities and in some areas of Blue States. You won’t be able to stop Americans. The difference between martial law in Russia, North Korea, The old Eastern Soviet Bloc, Red China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., is that they gave up their firearms. Martial law will be a major problem for the government here. Gov’t troops can come into certain areas where they will be outnumbered. We saw that in Nevada in 2014 with the Cliven Bundy fiasco, where Americans showed up armed to defend Bundy against the U.S. Government trying to arrest him for having his cattle grazing on Federal land for decades and did nothing about it for decades. The Gov’t backed down when they saw they were outnumbered and surrounded by Americans with firearms. We all remember Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans where American troops tried to confiscate firearms during Martial law. That didn’t go over too big and there was a lot of pushback and the Army stood down. So, let’s not get too excited about the Martial law issue.
No More Marxist,
We now have Chinese nationals and terror watch list countries sending their military age male and female saboteurs across the open borders.
That is a force multiplier for the Biden administration run by Obama.
In some blue cities ammo is being restricted to patriots, maybe the Mexican drug cartels might sell ammo too.
Wildfires are still a go to item in the Marxist tool chest around the world.
Border Patrol have found IED’s at the open border, what’s next?
You’ve left off 10 Cloverfield Lane with John Goodman. An interesting study on being in a bunker
That what would happen with pedophiles hiding in their mom’s basement waiting to come out for their sicko lifestyle in the new world.
Deviates don’t like being exposed to the public for their activities, hence a negative vote.
I loved the show Jerico and was ticked when it was taken off.
I know this series called “One Second After” and it’s 2 sequels are books but they are worth mentioning. They are by William Forstchen who is professor here in Black Mountain NC at Montreat College. He is an expert in EMP etc and has tried to get our gubmint to take EMP more seriously than they do. He has addressed Congress about it but they are usually playing video games on their phones like McCain used to do. The military is basically hardened for the most part but not all of it. And our grid is a disaster as far as EMP is concerned. His book series shows what he believes would happen if just 3 or 4 nukes were detonated above the USand other nations. His portrayal is mostly set here in Black Mtn NC and follows what happens here if that would happen. Very good series of 3 books and he also has some others that are similar. I could hardly put them down.
EMP is baked into the Chinese takeover, if they can’t subdue us by mass indoctrination. They started even way before the Chinatown’s came into major cities here. The railroads needed cheap labor and China plans in decades to hundreds of years of political plans, we don’t.
So these Chinatown’s are full of subversive potential on demand.
The latest China nationals are replacements and reinforcements in Bidenomics open borders, North, South and America’s seaports operated by China.
Checkmate soon to come?
Is America waking up or woke-ing up?
Sorry to say, yes they can take us over with mass indoctrination. Talk to anyone and they have been raised and schooled with global warming, climate change and everyone and everything is good. Don’t be judgy. If you do you are a phobe, racist or both. Very few young people believe the climate is not changing. In the 70’s they were teaching glaciers were going to be in South Dakota by 2010 and we would be in a mini ice age right now. That, was established fact. Fact. No one went for it so they changed tactics. Much like FACT!! We are evoluted from apes. That was fact. Theory taught as fact. Today, we are not from monkeys but evolved from other types of humans.
We can be taken over by teaching the kids. What happened to the mama bears at school board meetings? People need to start throwing them out starting at local levels first and move up the chain.
Vote them all out. If you live in Texas would someone descent please run against John Cornyn and get him out?
Agree!
Chaplain Dan, The story is the same as history shows from the WWII Nazi indoctrination of the Brown Shirts – the kids in government schools, narcing on their parents for the Marxist to imprison them on Trumped up charges
No different than what happens in George Soros an son corrupt DA’s and judges in New York and other liberal cities.
We are repeating history in the presence of Bidenomics, the border is secure and the economy is great – Bidenomics. What a bunch of sheeple we have.
An EMP or a CME will take down the electric grid for sure.
However there are precautions that can be taken to help
us stay alive for a while.
Water being the most important thing to sustain life is #1
in our preps.If you are on a well get a hand pump ASAP.
They are expensive and they have well depth considerations.
The Simple Pump is really top quality.The company is
located in Gardnerville Nv.
There is a device called Well Bucket that works well and is
very inexpensive compared to a hand pump.Lehman’s
sells them or you can build your own.Directions on the net.
The only depth consideration is how much rope you have.
For those on municipal water rain gutters and large barrels
for storage will help some
Folks living on or near a lake or small stream are in good
shape but we will have to pray for desert dwellers.
If you plan on using a generator the EMP Shield Company
has a device for your generator or your vehicle and your
house.Grid down you can still power a freezer,pump water
or drive your car if it isn’t to dangerous.
Container gardening will possibly keep us going if we have
potting soil,seeds,fertilizer,and of course water.
Think high carbohydrate.Potatoes,yams,carrots,turnips.
Hopefully you already have a big supply of rice,beans
and pastas.
There are so many things we need to survive it’s never
ending.
If you are in a large or medium size town get out if you can.!!!
I am with you on that No more Marxists in DC
Like hell if I am going to hide in a bunker. I’m going to Lock and load.
And any one who want to join me,
Your more then welcome.
This country has more guns then most countries in the hands of people.
And be dam if we will ever give them up,
We don’t want to fight,
But if given a reason , We dam sure will.
That has all ready been proven,
On American soil.
As to what’s going on,
What part of it that voted Dem rat does not get it,
That Biden and Obama and the deep state are destroying the united states,
And now they want to import beef from a country that has a history of huff and mouth contamination to destroy our food chain.
And Biden got 40.000 from the Chinese and his son arm strong a Chinese business man for 25 million, they have found out,
And true they brought the Chinese in when they started building the railroads .
at the time they were steeling the west from the Indians ,
And right now a lot of them have crossed the border in CA,
They say they have come here to work and a better life.
Well we can’t take care of all of them.
As for my self .I am not buying that story.
I think its a take over of our country,
A war with in,
So china and many other countries that hate us ,
Will start this war as soon as they get enough of them in to our country,
Flying them in and by ship.
WHO IS BEING PAID OFF TO LET THIS CONTINUE, To cross our borders
CASE AND POINT/
Your Right Toby
100% Your not wrong,
You can see what I am seeing.
I hope more get on the same page if they haven’t already.
We have to defend our country,
But there are many that have been brine washed.
I vote dem all my life Till Trump came in to the pictures
I am a business person my self.
It was then in 2008 that I seen this country headed down the rathole.
I feel that Trump beats all the Republicans and the Dem rats.
And he proved it in the first four years and had he got this four years,
Just think how well this country would have been now.
This President never sleeps.
He was always on the job , Doing every thing he could do for the American peoples lives,
To improve this country, Stronger and better,
Where no other country wanted to mess with the United States,
Now look at the hell we got.
Gas in Reedsburg Wisconsin is now 3,24 a gallon and a moth a go it was 2.77 a gallon.
How mush higher will Biden push it,
Paying for the keep of the l boarder crossers .
And driving the price up on every thing you buy ,
DEPORTATION NOW— DEPORTATION NOW —DEPORTATION NOW
LOCK DOWN ALL BRAODERS NOW.,
TELL THEM THAT THERE NOT WELCOME AND TURM THEM A ROUND TO HEAD HOME . HOW YOU GOT IN,, IS HOW YOU CAN GET OUT
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They want to say that President Trump will be the last Republican President,
After what we are butting up with now.
and many are now jumping on the Trump train,
After Biden I DOUGHT there will another Demo rate President.
They have showed there true colors.
Selling out our country to the highest bidder ,
If some them, Tthat voted dem ever take off there rose colored glasses.
They will be in for a rude awaking .
Have a nice day
“Fun Fact.”
When the rather poor remake of “Red Dawn” was filmed, it was the Chinese that invaded the US. The studio was dissatisfied with the film (as most people were) and it sat on shelves at the studio for a while.
When an effort was made to get some of the money back, there was a problem. By that time, Chinese money was flooding into Hollywood. Studio projects that depicted the Chinese as “bad guys” meant that a studio would not get future funding, much less a release of its films in Chna.
As a result, the invading soldiers’ uniforms were digitally altered to depict North Korean uniform insignias, and the flags were changed from Chinese to North Korean, AS IF the North Koreans could ever mount an invasion of the US.
Nothing, however, could save this film.
I thought it was a great move
I agree. The original was better because of the reality of the strategy. Regardless, you want to make a point the danger is real and what direction it could lead to. Who cares whose feelings will get hurt or what reputable damage it will bring to studios & directors. Don’t hide the truth.
The movie was decent
Don’t forget Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds.” Cruise is able to escape from Philadelphia only because he steals a recently repaired vehicle. Others are stranded.
Threads and American Blackout. also E.M.P. 333 Days is a very underrated movie, available free on youtube E.M.P. 333 Days (2019)
I have read all of the A. American going home series and they are darn good.
all this talk about movies makes me want to get some buttered popcorn…just sayin
Get a metal trashcan and make an EMP proof container for a radio and anything you want that runs on a battery.
Use a dishwasher. Metal tub variety. air tight, water proof and electrically grounded.
No actual expert has recommended that a Faraday cage be grounded for several years now, despite what you might find on the internet. In fact, there is a school of opinion that holds that it is the worst thing to do.
Great idea, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Fortunately, there are numerous YouTube videos on how to make a Faraday cage.
How about “Into the Forest” 2015 or “Leave the World Behind” 2023?
yes, into the forest is a very good one.
No EMP In “Leave the World Behind.” The grid was still up and running and no vehicles were affected.
where can I buy a DVD of all these?
“Lights Out” is a great book about an EMP and the aftermath. Also the Movie “The day after Tomorrow” is another good movie.