When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide is a 1951 science fiction film directed by Rudolph Maté. Filmed in Technicolor. When Worlds Collide was Winner of the 1951 Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
The film is based on a book of the same name co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
A group of scientists calculate an impending collision between the Earth and a runaway star, but the government refuses to listen to them. They set about building a rocket with the financing of private industrialists, so that a few selected individuals can escape to another planet and start a new civilization. The construction of the rocket ship is a race against time as doomsday approaches...