Zombie movies have been popular for decades, but some of the genre's best films, including World War Z, have come out in the last 25 years.

Or post -apocalypse movies. Or, you know, just movies where civilization is either on the verge of collapsing, actually collapsing, or has already collapsed.

Some of the best action franchises take place after an apocalypse that levels humanity, rooting the violence in a post-society universe.

These are our picks for the 10 best apocalyptic movies ever made. You'll find almost every flavor of world-ending peril here: from zombies to plagues to Lovecraftian demons to the tried-and-true ...