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Originally Posted by ducati_EL34
The Last Chase was not about running out of oil. The Totalitarian state did away with cars, and Public Mass Transit was put in place. This was after a plague (it was speculated that it was the swine flu) wiped a good portion of the population.
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IIRC, it was the Arab States placed an embargo on the U.S. and West. I remember Lee Majors making a point where perhaps the "Arabs are tired of driving 30 year old Cadillacs." I'd place the movie in the 2005-2010 timeframe.
Let's see, I like "Dr. Strangelove" and "Failsafe." The latter actually avoided the apocalypse but it could have happened.
"Threads" was really scary, the British film from 1984 that went from just before World War III to 13 years later. Another British one, "The War Game," was made in 1965 but it was banned for a while, I have a copy of it somewhere.
"No Blade of Grass," another British one, 1971, where grass type crops like grains and so forth get a plague in Europe and there is food shortages. Some people did make it to the U.S. that was unaffected but the film focused on the survivors left behind.