National Geographic - Doomsday Preppers (2012)

Doomsday Preppers explores the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Unique in their beliefs, motivations, and strategies, preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of life’s uncertainties. And with our expert’s assessment, they will find out their chances of survival if their worst fears become a reality.

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Part 1: Bullets Lots of Bullets
Meet a group of people preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Texan Paul Range and his wife Gloria constructed a home out of nine shipping containers, and stockpiled over 50,000 lbs. of food in preparation for a day when the North and South Poles swap places, resulting in dramatic climate changes and natural disasters.


Part 2: I Hope I Am Crazy
Kellene Bishop, a self-described foodie, amazes her friends by whipping up a dinner party entirely from shelf-stable foods, proving she won’t sacrifice the finer things in a financial disaster. Dennis Evers has trained his children with special skills to withstand a catastrophic financial collapse. His oldest son shows us how he can fashion bows and arrows for security, his daughters weld and stockpile fuel, his wife cans massive amounts of food, and his son-in-law is working on solar-power


Part 3: Back to the Stone Age
Phoenix, Ariz., dad Tim Ralston is prepared for an electromagnetic pulse attack on America. He’s built a shipping container specially outfitted for survival purposes and taught his sons to defend the compound with weapons. Jason Charles is a New York fire-fighter preparing for the eruption of the Yellowstone super volcano. He’s storing meals ready to eat and water in his city apartment.


Part 4: Its All Gonna Hit the Fan
A retired cop prepares for an economic doomsday, fearing it will bring chaos to the roads; a Florida family plan on leaving everything behind when they migrate to higher, safer sea levels; a Utah grandmother protects her family from a widespread pandemic by practicing worst-case-scenario drills.


Part 5: Friends Can Become Enemies
Meet three Americans who give their all when it comes to preparedness. Real estate developer Larry Hall is creating luxury survival condos in an old missile silo. Michael Patrick Douglas is training his children in primitive survival skills. Becky Brown is taking sharp shooting lessons with a sniper in order to prepare herself for a government takeover of Salt Lake City.


Part 6: Nine Meals Away from Anarchy
Are you prepared for the end of the world? These men are. To prepare, Mike Mester involves his whole family in stockpiling food, fuel and weapons. Preston White collected 11,000 types of seeds to help him grow his own food after a radioactive disaster. If doomsday arrives, Riley Cook has invested his savings into a bug out shelter he hopes will protect his family from a catastrophic polar shift.


Part 7: Into the Spider Hole
Meet three people who are desperately preparing for a great worldwide catastrophe. Doug Huffman has built spider holes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to survive the next Great Depression. Dianne Rogers preps her family to survive an environmental catastrophe, even going so far as to train her 6-year-old daughter to bug in. Ed and Dianna Peden are living underground in a missile silo bunker.


Part 8: Its Gonna Get Worse
Bruce Beach has constructed a 10,000-square-foot underground bunker out of 42 full-size school buses, which he calls the Ark Two. Sometimes referred to as the Doctor of Doom, Bradford Frank is a psychiatrist living in the suburbs of San Diego, California. Bradford believes that a deadly avian bird flu pandemic is fast approaching, and is preparing his family to bug out to a nearby cave.


Part 9: Close the Door Load the Shotgun
Calamity Janet welcomes you to her Armageddon Inn. Prepper Janet Spencer prepared her home for a nuclear war, and is inviting people to bunker down with her. She has spaghetti pasta to feed 1000 people. Retired photojournalist Jack Jobe started prepping in 2010, after watching the news surrounding Haitis devastating earthquake. Now Jack is prepping for the scenario he fears most a solar flare.


Part 10: Disaster Doesnt Wait
Explore the lives of three unique Americans, each preparing to survive an uncertain future. A retired army sargeant is preparing for an electromagnetic pulse attack A suburban mother is preparing for an avian flu pandemic. And a single dad is ready to bug into a secret underground hatch in his garage.


Part 11: I Suggest We Run
Meet three Americans who show us how they prepare for the end of the world, as they know it. Mr. Wayne (he wishes to keep his identity a secret due to OPSEC) is preparing because he believes China will undermine the US economy. John and Christine Sellers anticipate an economic collapse, and they are purchasing a shipping container to bury in their backyard. Jason Day is determined to take his family underground if things turn as bad as he believes.


Part 12: Extra: American Doomsday
America's Doomsday plan. It's the government's ultimate playbook, with a strategy for even the darkest hours—developed when Cold War tensions were high, but never used until 9/11. In American Doomsday, fly in an E4-B—the president's command, control, and communications centre for times of national catastrophe; go inside the secret bunker used by government officials on September 11; and witness how the luxurious Greenbrier Resort became a critical, top secret congressional bunker.