List of films about nuclear issues

This is a list of films about nuclear issues:

Documentary films

* ''Ashes to Honey''
* '' The Atom Strikes!''
* ''The Atomic Cafe''
* ''Atomic Ed and the Black Hole''
* ''Atomic Power''
* '' The Bomb (2015)''
* ''Chernobyl Heart''
* ''Command and Control''
* ''Countdown to Zero''
* ''Dark Circle''
* ''The Day After Trinity''
* '' Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment''
* ''Duck and Cover''
* '' Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl''
* '' First Strike''
* '' A Guide to Armageddon'' (''Q.E.D.'' episode)
* ''Hiroshima''
* ''If You Love This Planet''
* '' Into Eternity''
* ''Journey to the Safest Place on Earth''
* '' Last Best Chance''
* ''The Man Who Saved the World''
* ''The Mushroom Club''
* ''Nuclear Tipping Point''
* '' One World or None''
* '' Our Friend the Atom''
* ''Pandora's Promise''
* '' Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran''
* ''Protect and Survive''
* '' Radio Bikini''
* '' Resan''
* ''The Return of Navajo Boy''
* ''Rokkasho Rhapsody''
* '' Silent Storm''
* '' Target Nevada''
* '' Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie''
* '' Uranium – Twisting the Dragon's Tail''
* '' White Horse''
* '' White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki''
* '' Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster''
* ''War and Peace''
* '' The War Game (1966 BBC)''

Dramatic films

* ''A Boy and His Dog'' (1975) - the story of a boy and his talking dog in a post-apocalyptic world.
* '' Amazing Grace and Chuck'' (1987) - a 12-year-old boy becomes anxious after seeing a Minuteman missile on a school field trip. He protests the existence of nuclear weapons by refusing to play baseball.
* ''The Atomic Cafe'' (1982) - collection of the 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety
* ''The Atomic Kid'' (1954) - a man is in a house within the danger area of a nuclear bomb test area when the bomb is activated.
* ''Atomic Twister'' (ABC, made-for-TV) - a film about a modern automated power plant in the path of a tornado which threatens the plant
* ''Barefoot Gen'' - an anime film based on a manga series which depicts the terror of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II from the perspective of a child. Although in slow motion, the film is notable for featuring an accurate representation of the bomb's explosion and the effects it had on Hiroshima's people.
* ''Battle Beneath the Earth'' (1967) - a discovery that Communist China, using innovative tunneling vehicles, is tunneling under the U.S. to place nuclear bombs in strategic locations, results in a U.S. effort to foil the plan and defeat them.
* '' The Bed Sitting Room'' (1969) - an absurdist, post-apocalyptic, satirical black comedy set in the ruins of London on a recent anniversary of the nuclear war.
* ''The Bedford Incident'' (1965) - a U.S. destroyer finds a Soviet Submarine and a false alarm causes trouble for the crew on board the ship.
* ''The Beginning or the End'' (1947) - a fictionalized docudrama about the Manhattan Project and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
* '' Broken Arrow'' (1996) - a film about two friends in the United States Air Force, who become bitter enemies after one of them steals two nuclear weapons and gives the U.S. government an ultimatum: either pay a huge ransom, or he will destroy a major U.S. city.
* ''By Dawn's Early Light'' (HBO, 1990) - about rogue Soviet military officials framing NATO for a nuclear attack in order to spark a full-blown nuclear war
* ''A Carol for Another Christmas'' (1964) - The Ghost of Christmas Future gives a tour across a desolate landscape of the ruins of a once-great civilization (Hiroshima).
* ''The Children's Story'' (1982) - this short film, which originally aired on TV's Mobil Showcase, depicts the first day of indoctrination of an elementary school classroom by a new teacher, representing a totalitarian government that has taken over the United States. It is based on the 1960 short story of the same name by James Clavell.
* ''The China Syndrome'' - this has been described as a "gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power", which had an extra impact when the real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant occurred several weeks after the film opened. Jane Fonda plays a TV reporter who witnesses fears over risk of a meltdown (the "China syndrome" of the title) at a local nuclear plant, which was averted by a quick-thinking engineer. The plot suggests that corporate greed and cost-cutting "have led to potentially deadly faults in the plant's construction".The China Syndrome (1979)
''The New York Times''.
* '' The Cloud'' - German drama film in which two teenagers try to survive after a nuclear accident.
* ''Chernobyl (miniseries)'' (HBO, Sky, 2019) - a five-part historical drama television miniseries, dramatizes the story of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
* '' Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'' (2002) - in this movie directed by George Clooney, the CIA approaches an actor who becomes an assassin that kills some of America's enemies.
* ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' (HBO, 1984) - a film that presents a simulated news broadcast about a nuclear war
* '' Crimson Tide'' (1995) - a suspenseful drama about a nuclear submarine, and the mutiny of its Executive Officer, regarding decisions on whether to launch a nuclear missile
* ''Damnation Alley'' (20th Century Fox, 1977) - a surprise attack launched on the United States, and the subsequent efforts of a small band of survivors in California to reach another group of survivors in Albany, New York
* ''The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012) - an entire metropolitan city is taken hostage as masked mercenary takes hold of a fully armed neutron bomb.
* ''The Day After'' (1983) - this made-for-television-movie by ABC depicts the consequences of a nuclear war in Lawrence, Kansas and the surrounding area.
* ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961) - a drama about nuclear tests that throw the Earth off its course around the Sun, dooming it unless scientists can find a way to reverse the change, and a news team that covers the affair
* ''The Day the Fish Came Out'' 1967.
* ''Day One'' (CBS, 1989) - made-for-TV docudrama about the Manhattan Project
* '' The Dead Zone'' (1983) - a school teacher acquires psychic powers then learns a political candidate will order a nuclear strike at some point in the future
* ''Deterrence (film)'' (1999) - depicting fictional events about nuclear brinkmanship involving the United States and the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Baghdad, Iraq.
* ''Dirty War'' (BBC/HBO, 2004) - follows the journey of a radioactive isotope into England, where it is ultimately turned into multiple dirty bombs and detonated in central London. Meanwhile, the city of London conducts preparedness drills for a possible terrorist attack
* ''Disaster at Silo 7'' (1988).
* '' The Divide'' (2011) - survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
* '' Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'' (1964) - a black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War and the threat of nuclear warfare
* '' Der Dritte Weltkrieg'' ("World War III") (1998) - a German/American TV mockumentary of an alternate history in which Soviet hard-liners oust Mikhail Gorbachev with the Iron Curtain intact, soon initiating a conventional war which accidentally triggers a full nuclear exchange; the film then rewinds to the point of divergence and ends with jubilant scenes from the " different path" of our history.
* ''Fail-Safe'' (1964) - a film based on the novel of the same name about an American bomber crew and nuclear tensions
* ''Fail-Safe'' (CBS, 2000) - a remake of the 1964 film, broadcast live and in black-and-white
* ''Fat Man and Little Boy'' a.k.a. ''Shadow Makers'' (1989) - film that reenacts the Manhattan Project
* ''Five'' (1951) - Four men and a woman together are apparent sole survivors of a global nuclear holocaust.
* ''Friend of the World'' (2020) - Trapped in a bunker, a filmmaker and a military general piece together the cause of nuclear war.
* '' A Gathering of Eagles'' (1963) - a Strategic Air Command B-52 wing commander must shape up his unit to pass a tough inspection, sacrificing friendships and happiness at home to ensure the wing can accomplish its mission.
* ''Godzilla'' (1954) - nuclear tests in the South Pacific awakens a giant, prehistoric monster who threatens to destroy Japan.
* ''Goldeneye'' (1995) - tells the story of a Russian terrorist group trying to settle a score in England by capturing two secret Soviet nuclear EMP weapon and detonating them across the globe
* '' Goldfinger'' (1964) - a businessman plans to irradiate America's gold supply with a dirty bomb.
* ''Hava Aney Dey'' (2004) - Indian drama film by Partho Sen-Gupta about a future nuclear war between Indian and Pakistan.
* '' The Hero: Love Story of a Spy'' (2003) - Indian spy thriller film by Anil Sharma about a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent who must terrorists from gaining access to a nuclear bomb.
* ''The Hunt for Red October'' (1990) - based on Tom Clancy's 1984 bestseller of the same title. It involves a Soviet naval captain who wants to defect to the United States with his crew and with the Soviet's most advanced nuclear missile submarine.
* '' I Am Cuba'' (1964) - a Cuban-Soviet film that encompasses the lives of everyday Cubans during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
* '' Iranium'' - a movie about the nuclear weapons program of Iran
* '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002) - covers the Soviet submarine K-19 nuclear accident
* '' Ladybug, Ladybug'' (1963) - During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, teachers at a secluded countryside elementary school are asked to walk their pupils home after a nuclear bomb warning alarm sounds.
* '' Lucky Dragon No. 5''
* '' The Manhattan Project'' (1986) - though not about a nuclear war, this was seen as a cautionary tale.
* ''Matinee (1993 film)'' - this film takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis and dramatizes the lives of Americans about to meet their impending doom.
* ''Miracle Mile'' (1988) - a film about two lovers in Los Angeles leading up to a nuclear war
* ''Nightbreaker'' (1989)
* '' On the Beach'' (1959) - film depicting a gradually dying, post-apocalyptic world in Australia that remained after a nuclear Third World War
* '' On the Beach'' (Showtime, 2000) - a remake of the 1959 film.
* '' One Night Stand'' (1984) - an Australian film directed and written by John Duigan. Four teenagers are in the Sydney Opera House when news breaks of a U.S.-Soviet conflict in Europe that quickly goes nuclear - first in Europe, and soon in Australia as well.
*''Outside the Wire'' (2021) - In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired up with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack.
* Pandora (2016) - South Korean disaster film about a nuclear power plant.
* '' Panic in Year Zero'' (1961) - a man on a camping trip with his family takes actions to protect them from looters and cutthroats, in a no-law, no-authorities public panic situation caused by a nuclear bomb attack nearby, but a safe distance from him and his family.
*'' Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran'' (''Atom'', 2018) - Indian historical drama film by Abhishek Sharma based on Pokhran-II, the Indian nuclear weapons test at Pokhran in 1998.
* '' The Peacemaker'' (1997) - a U.S. Army colonel and a civilian nuclear expert supervising him must track down a stolen Russian nuclear weapon before it is used by terrorists.
* ''Planet of the Apes'' (1968) - this, and two of its sequels depict Earth after being destroyed in a nuclear war, while two middle sequels depict Earth before such a war.
* ''Race for the Bomb''
* '' The Rainbow Warrior''
* ''Right at Your Door'' (2007) - a thriller about a couple in Los Angeles following multiple dirty bomb detonations.
* '' The Sacrifice'' (Sweden, 1986) - a philosophical drama about nuclear war
* ''Silkwood'' (1983) - inspired by the true-life story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she workedRobert Benford
The Anti-nuclear Movement (book review)
''American Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 89, No. 6, (May 1984), pp. 1456-1458.
* ''Space Cowboys'' (2000) - a space drama film; four older "ex-test pilots" are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite, unaware that it is armed with nuclear missiles.
* ''Special Bulletin'' (1983) - a gripping NBC drama about some anti-nuke activists who ironically threaten to detonate a nuclear device in Charleston, South Carolina
* '' Split Second'' (1953) - an escaped killer and his two partners hold a few people hostage in a ghost town that is scheduled to be destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
* '' The Sum of All Fears'' (2002) - a tale of terrorists' attempts to cause a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia
* '' Superman IV: The Quest for Peace'' (1987) - Superman rounds up the world's nuclear weapons and hurls them into the Sun, resulting in unintended consequences.
* '' Testament'' (PBS, 1983) - depicts the after-effects of a nuclear war in a town near San Francisco, California
* '' Thirteen Days'' (2000) - tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
* '' Threads'' (BBC
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