Film On Tv

[whiskeryron]

Can anyone remember a disaster movie shown on tv ages ago about strong impulses from the sun destroying most human life on Earth & how a few survivors coped in Australia & managed to adapt ? One particular scene I remember is where they had to break into a large store to get equipment. Please if you can help, trying to remember is doing my head in.

[whiskeryron]

I seem to recall the film had a short title like " the surge "
or "the pulse"

[Stephen_G]

Here's a list of Films set in Australia, whiskeyron, but I can't see anything relevant to what you're looking for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_Australia

Something might jog your memory

[Stephen_G]

I haven't seen this one, but could it be Knowing starring Nicholas Cage?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(film)

[chaptazbru2]

I was going to suggest Knowing, I think that's the one. Actually, it was on a couple of nights ago.

[whiskeryron]

Thanks for your prompt answers. No I think Knowing is a comparatively modern film. I am talking about way back 1940s '50s 60s

[chaptazbru2]

Yes, Knowing is very recent.

[whiskeryron]

Another thing that stood out for me in the film was at the end the main character dies & discovers that his afterlife is on one of Saturns moons

[Tuvok]

Anything here:

http://www.filmsite.org/disasterfilms.html

[whirlyhurly]

Could it be a film based on Neville Shute's book "On The Beach" which was about Australia.

[whiskeryron]

whirlyhurly NO, Tuvok thanks for the list, still no luck.

[delboy3]

Was it 'The Quiet Earth'? Some of your descriptions seem to fit but this was from 1985 and made in New Zealand...

[whiskeryron]

Thanks again guys. The Movie is in fact The Quiet Earth 1985.

[cassa333]

Is it the one where a science experiment goes wrong and a surge of (some sort of ) energy is released every so often with the surge happening quicker and quicker each.

Each time a surge happens only those that die at that precise moment are actually alive.

The hero figures out what happened and tries to stop the last devistating surge by ramming it with a truck or something and ends up dead when it happens and is therefore that last surviving human on a distant planet not knowing if his attempt were successful or not?

[whiskeryron]

cassa333, in a word YES