While I thoroughly enjoyed the Postman and Water World was OK, I have a list of TV series, animated stuff, and a few more movies! I list ones I think about when I am looking at settings and I think would benefit others working on their gamma world ideas.
Live Action:
The Colony (Life in a settlement with esoteric skillsets? got em)
Life After People (Want run-down looking imagry? look no further)
Jeremiah (all adults dead, kids only--lord of the flies for the world)
Jericho (Post nuclear U.S.)
Planet of the Apes (classic films and TV here)
Celopatra 2525 (cheezy, but post-apoc)
Battlestar Galactica (either series classic or new. Great post-apoc scenery, struggles, etc.)
Animated:
Thundarr the Barbarian (awesome goodness with mutants, cyborgs, post-apoc stuff)
The Herculoids (mainly an alternate timeline/different planet with good post-apoc ideas)
The Pirates of Dark Water (post-apoc/fantasy, but still idea fodder)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (alternate reality but still worth it for ideas)
Witch Hunter Robin (nice way to explain E.H. + other origin characters)
Blue Submarine No. 6 (post-apoc world, sunken cities, aggressive opponents + fights)
Megazone 23 (the population is inside an asteroid...isolation, old civs)
Sky Land (AWESOME sky-based civ/post-apoc with E.H. + other origin explanations)
Green Legend Ran (Typical post-apoc desert world)
Akira (You want civ + post-apoc TK exploding bodies? here you go)
Bubblegum Crisis/Crash/2012 (post-apoc Omega Tech/Cyborgs/Robots)
Animatrix (The matrix in animation...far better than the live action IMO)
Dominion/Dominion Tank Police (post-apoc with civ, worth a watch)
AD Police (same as bubblegum crisis only before BGC when robots start going mad)
Tide-Line Blue (AWESOME post-apoc storyline on a water world)
Sousei no Aquarion (another good post-apoc with limited human survivors + E.H./other explain)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Look no further for post-apoc storyline and survivor. Cheezy though)
A Wind Named Amnesia (nice look at a world who has forgotten it's past)
The Wings of Honneamise (nice alternate worldline leading up to first man in space)
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (AWESOME series about post-earthquake Japan-AWESOME! Normal humans though)
Desert Punk (From what I've heard, a good desert post-apoc world)
Steamboy (AWESOME depiction of a steampunk society, great for that type of worldline)
Hyper Police (anthropomorphism at its finest)
Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind (alternate reality/post-apoc, good storyline overall)
Mai-Otome, Mai-ZHime, Mai-Hime S.fir, Mai-Otome Zwei (etc.) (interesting future/post-apoc future with E.H. + other origin explanations)
Gundam X (post-apoc setting you can dismiss the giant robots...or not)
Neon Genesis Evangaleon (definately post-apoc, 4 horsemen of the apocalypse kind with gifted children as the heroes)
Dimensional Space Century ORGUSS (AWESOME for worldlines inspiration & mutants/PSH AWESOME AWESOME)
The Big O (giant robots, yes, look at the setting for good post-apoc storyline)
Giant Robo (giant STEAMPUNK robots for the most part, look at the setting for post-apoc worldline)
Utawarerumono (anthropomorphism goodness, really post-apoc where humans can't exist due to atmosphere changes)
Vampire Hunter D (Vampires, yeah, but post-apocalyptic setting)
Canaan (Enhanced Human goodness)
Robotech: Macross Saga (AKA Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, particularly after the Zentradi attack on Earth -- ignore the robots, or not)
Robotech: Invid Saga (AKA Genesis Climber Mospaeda -- ignore the robots, or not)
Battle Angel Alita (Robots/Cyborgs, fun fun post-apoc stuff)
Astro boy (post-apoc stuff galore with robots as well)
Last Exile (sky world with pseudo post-apoc theme and war. very interesting anime)
Metropolis (live action and anime, both good for robots/post-apoc life)
Princess Mononoke (Nice look at a different reality with some nice monster attacks & such)
Other movies:
The Matrix (at least some parts are post-apoc)
City of Ember (nice film, I believe about a post-apoc society that missed the big boom)
Day After Tomorrow (good film, struggle, but pure-strain human only with global catstrophe)
Night of the Comet (cheesy, but interesting. Chakotay from Voyager is in this one...hee)
Bladerunner (one of the best classic films of all time)
The 5th Element (future, mainly, but interesting themes and views of a possible worldline)
Terminator films (best for "robots take over the world" junk like the matrix)
Children of Men (good film for what life could be like if fertility stagnated)
The Happening (sudden suicides could mean a lot of things, maybe ideas for an alternate worldline)
Reign of Fire (dragons, yeah, but great view of what civ might be like if they did come back)
Cherry 2000 (cheesy, but an interesting look at androids and post-apoc world setting)
The Road (OK, the abstract ammo rules of Gamma World could have been from this film...)
The Siege (not really post-apocalyptic, but definately good idea fodder)
Red Dawn (America attacked? WWIII? This is one of my favorite films)
The Terror Within (post-apoc with highly-mutated people. Good watch for cheese and ideas)
Total Recall (while more futuristic, when you get to Mars, you see mutants and how some can be useless while others kickbutt)
12 monkeys (sure, it's about time travel, but you can catch glimpses of the future with post-apoc themage)
Some inspirational images:
izismile.com/2010/04/19/postapocalyptic_...www.google.com/images?q=Apocalyptic+Manh...forum.juhlin.com/showthread.php?t=332I tried to stay away from horror stuff and concentrate as best I could on shows/movies/anime that presented a good image or snapshots of life in a post-apocalyptic world. The images are some eye candy of possible adventure sites.
Oh, don't forget the Fallout series, Wasteland, and Borderlands as video game inspiration.
