Following global war and terrorism, the world is in turmoil. The United States is fractured as a result of a second civil war and a pandemic of the "St. Mary's Virus" is ravaging continental Europe. The United Kingdom is ruled as a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist police state by the Norsefire Party, helmed by all-powerful High Chancellor Adam Sutler. Political opponents, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, atheists, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" are imprisoned and executed.

Barbarella crash-lands on Tau Ceti's 16th planet and is knocked unconscious by two children. They bring her into the wreckage of a spaceship where she is bound and attacked by several dolls with razor-sharp teeth.

In 1985, two years after the Westworld tragedy, the Delos Corporation have reopened the theme park after spending $1.5 billion in safety improvements.

The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements.

Air Force One is hijacked by insurgents and is deliberately crashed in New York City.

By 2017, the United States has become a totalitarian police state following a worldwide economic collapse.

n the year 2274, the remnants of human civilisation live in a sealed city contained beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of life, including reproduction.

A police officer in Australia which is experiencing "societal collapse" seeks revenge for the death of his family.

In the year 2018, in the cult-classic film Rollerball, nations have gone bankrupt. Corporations rule a world of docile, vapid customer-citizens who are constantly surveilled.

In South-Central Los Angeles, a gang steal a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson a team of heavily-armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of the gang.

In the spring of 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the elite Outer Party, encounters Julia, a woman he suspects may be a member of the Thought Police.

Kevin Flynn is a leading software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM.

An advanced AI supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems goes full metal jacket.

After a strange new virus from China spreads around the world, governments collapse and chaos and famine consumes every town and city.