Solar Attack (2006)

Original title

Solar Strike

Directed by

Paul Ziller

Genre

science fiction film, disaster film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Massive solar eruptions ignite Earth's atmosphere, threatening to suffocate everyone. With U.S.-Russia relations already strained, scientists and military leaders race to stop the disaster by setting off nuclear missiles at the poles.

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What happens

Solar Attack (also called Solar Strike) is a 2006 television film by CineTel Films and Lions Gate Entertainment, starring Mark Dacascos, Joanne Kelly and Louis Gossett Jr. Solar Attack concerns large coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that cause the Earth's atmosphere to burn, potentially suffocating all life on Earth. All of this happens during a time of political tension between the United States and Russia. Disaster is eventually averted by the detonation of nuclear missiles at the poles, releasing vapor that extinguishes the burning methane caused by the CMEs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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