History Film / EvacuateEarth

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Played completely straight. People on Earth as of the 2100s, and aboard the Ark as of the 2190s, dress like people in the 2020s.

* DirtyCoward: Many of the Earth's wealthy elite pour their resources into a privately-built escape ship for themselves rather than contributing to the Ark project. [[spoiler:It ends [[LaserGuidedKarma badly]] for them]].

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy:
** Neutron stars in real life are blue-white, but the one in the film is fiery red. Presumably this is to contrast with the gentle blue of Earth.
** Earth 2's original name is Barnard C352. In real life, exoplanets are typically assigned the name of their star plus a letter (so the first planet discovered orbiting Barnard's Star would be Barnard's Star b). This part of the film takes place decades in the future, though, so presumably naming conventions have changed by then.

These concepts are explored through the story of the Horizon Project, a decades-long effort to build an interstellar [[TheArk Ark]] and get some of humanity out of the solar system before a rogue neutron star arrives and destroys the Earth in seventy five years.

* ExactTimeToFailure: Seventy five years and counting...

* RoguePlanet: The reason for the titular evacuation is that a rogue neutron star is headed for the solar system, and its immense gravity will literally tear the Earth to shreds in seventy five years.

* StockStarSystems: Earth 2 orbits Barnard's Star, six light-years away. It takes the Ark eighty eight years to get there at seven percent of light speed.

->''"It seems like science fiction. The end of the world, no going back, we need to escape, we need to [[TitleDrop evacuate Earth]]. But it's really impossible to say that it will never happen."''

** The Cassini space probe is KilledOffscreen shortly after recording the destruction of Saturn.

* RoguePlanet: Well, rogue neutron star.

* SpacePlane: A fleet of these (which launch vertically, like the Space Shuttle) are used to board the Ark once it's finished construction.
* StockStarSystems: Earth 2 orbits Barnard's Star, six light-years away. It takes the Ark eighty eight years to get there.

* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Barnard's Star, which at six light-years away is the second-closest star system to Sol, just ''happens'' to have an Earth-like planet that humanity can emigrate to in a reasonably-short amount of time.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: Neutron stars in real life are blue-white, but the one in the film is fiery red. Presumably this is to contrast with the gentle blue of Earth.

* ColonyDrop: The first evidence of the neutron star's approach is a hail of bowling-ball sized {{Flaming Meteor}}s that kill 250,000 people worldwide and obliterate the Taj Mahal for good measure.

* MileLongShip: The finished Ark is fifteen miles long and two miles wide.

* ColonyDrop: The first evidence of the neutron star's approach is a hail of bowling-ball size meteors that kill 250,000 people worldwide and obliterate the Taj Mahal for good measure.

* GenerationShip: The Ark is one by necessity, since it'll take the better part of a century to reach its destination. By the time it arrives, only a handful of the original passengers are still alive.

** The Taj Mahal gets taken out by a ColonyDrop early on.

* SpacePlane: A fleet of these are used to board the Ark once it's finished construction.

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: By the time Earth crosses the neutron star's Roche limit and breaks up, everyone left behind is already dead due to radiation and volcanism, leaving the people aboard the Ark the only witnesses.

* AwesomeButImpractical: {{Antimatter}} is insanely powerful and 100% efficient, but storing it is too dangerous to be worth the payoff. The Horizon Project goes with an OrionDrive instead.

* MadeOfExplodium: {{Antimatter}} is rejected as an interstellar drive for this reason. [[spoiler:''Savior 1'' proves this decision prudent]].

* OrionDrive: The Ark uses this as its main drive, and can reach seven percent of light speed by detonating a bomb every three seconds for ten days straight.

''Evacuate Earth'' is a SpeculativeDocumentary aired on the Magazine/NationalGeographic Channel in 2012. The film discusses the idea of a HomeworldEvacuation, what might necessitate one, and what would be required to pull it off from a technological, logistical, and societal perspective.

* BittersweetEnding: Albeit, the best possible outcome given the situation. The Earth and its billions of inhabitants are destroyed, but the Ark makes it out of the solar system with a quarter-million people on board, and epilogue confirms that they made it to Earth 2.

These concepts are explored through the story of the Horizon Project, a decades-long effort to build an interstellari [[TheArk Ark]] and get some of humanity out of the solar system before a rogue neutron star arrives and destroys the Earth in seventy five years.

* ApocalypseHow: Numerous [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class 1s]] in the form of {{Colony Drop}}s and {{Solar Flare Disaster}}s as the neutron star approaches, followed by a ApocalypseHow/ClassX (or possibly a ApocalypseHow/ClassX2) when it finally arrives.

* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: The victims of one particularly nasty SolarFlareDisaster are said to have suffered more radiation damage than those at ground zero of the Hiroshima bomb.

* LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair: The destruction of the Egyptian Pyramids and the Great Wall of China in the climatic end-of-the-world sequence certainly conveys humanity's helplessness against the ravages of nature.

''Evacuate Earth'' is a SpeculativeDocumentary aired on the Magazine/NationalGeographic Channel in 2012. The film discusses the idea of a HomeworldEvacuation, what might necessitate one, and what would be required to pull it off with a ticking clock.

* RingWorldPlanet: The Ark is modeled after an O'Neil Cylinder, with a rotating structure and a curving interior hull that provides ArtificialGravity.

These concepts are explored through the story of the Horizon Project, a decades-long effort to build TheArk and get some people out of the solar system before a rogue neutron star arrives and destroys the Earth in seventy five years.

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* MileLongShip: The Ark is said to be fifteen miles long and two miles wide.

** During the final destruction-of-Earth sequence, the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China, and the entirety of New York City are shown being torn from their foundations and hurled into the sky.