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Documentary films

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Ashes to Honey , (literally ''"Humming of Bees and Rotation of the Earth"'') is a Japanese documentary directed by Hitomi Kamanaka and released in 2010. It is the third in Kamanaka's trilogy of films on the problems of nuclear power and radiation, preceded by ' ...
'' * '' The Atom Strikes!'' * ''
The Atomic Cafe ''The Atomic Cafe'' is a 1982 American documentary film directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early i ...
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Atomic Ed and the Black Hole ''Atomic Ed and the Black Hole'' is a documentary released in 2001 by filmmaker, Ellen Spiro. The documentary was made for HBO's Cinemax Reel Life Series. Sheila Nevins served as Executive Producer and Lisa Heller served as Supervising Produce ...
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Atomic Power Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion reactions. Presently, the vast majority of electricity from nuclear power is produced b ...
'' * '' The Bomb (2015)'' * ''
Chernobyl Heart ''Chernobyl Heart'' is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at The 76th Academy Awards. In the film, DeLeo travels through Ukraine and Belarus with Adi Roche, the Irish founder of the Ch ...
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Command and Control Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes ... hatemploys human, physical, and information resources to solve problems and accomplish missions" to achieve the goals of an organization or en ...
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Countdown to Zero ''Countdown to Zero'' is a 2010 documentary film by British filmmaker Lucy Walker. The film argues that the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons has increased since the end of the Cold War due to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, theft of nu ...
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Dark Circle The Dark Circle is a criminal organization that appears in comic books from DC Comics, primarily part of the Legion of Super-Heroes comic books. They first appeared in 1968, created by Jim Shooter as a criminal organization founded by five membe ...
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The Day After Trinity ''The Day After Trinity'' (a.k.a. ''The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb'') is a 1980 documentary film directed and produced by Jon H. Else in association with KTEH public television in San Jose, California. The fil ...
'' * '' Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment'' * ''
Duck and Cover "Duck and cover" is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion. Ducking and covering is useful in offering a degree of protection to personnel located outside the radius of the nuclear fireball but still within su ...
'' * '' Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl'' * '' First Strike'' * '' A Guide to Armageddon'' (''Q.E.D.'' episode) * ''
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...
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If You Love This Planet ''If You Love This Planet'' is a 1982 short documentary film recording a lecture given to SUNY Plattsburgh students by physician and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The movie was directed by T ...
'' * '' Into Eternity'' * ''
Journey to the Safest Place on Earth ''Journey to the Safest Place on Earth'' is a 2013 documentary film written and directed by Edgar Hagen. It discusses the huge quantity of radioactive waste and spent fuel rods being stored at various locations on the planet. Charles McCombie is ...
'' * '' Last Best Chance'' * ''
The Man Who Saved the World ''The Man Who Saved the World'' is a 2013 feature-length Danish documentary film by filmmaker Peter Anthony about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces and his role in preventing the 1983 Soviet nuclear ...
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The Mushroom Club ''The Mushroom Club'' is a 2005 documentary short subject, directed by Steven Okazaki. The short film is about the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and its effects on the residents of that city sixty years later. On January 31, 2006 it was nom ...
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Nuclear Tipping Point ''Nuclear Tipping Point'' is a 2010 documentary film produced by the Nuclear Threat Initiative. It features interviews with four American government officials who were in office during the Cold War period, but are now advocating for the eliminati ...
'' * '' One World or None'' * '' Our Friend the Atom'' * ''
Pandora's Promise ''Pandora's Promise'' is a 2013 documentary film about the nuclear power debate, directed by Robert Stone. Its central argument is that nuclear power, which still faces historical opposition from environmentalists, is a relatively safe and clean ...
'' * '' Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran'' * ''
Protect and Survive ''Protect and Survive'' was a public information campaign on civil defence. Produced by the British government between 1974 and 1980, it intended to advise the public on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack. The campaign compris ...
'' * '' Radio Bikini'' * '' Resan'' * ''
The Return of Navajo Boy ''The Return of Navajo Boy'' (released in 2000) is a documentary film produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain about the Cly family, Navajo who live on their reservation. Through them, the film explores several longstanding issues among the Navaj ...
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Rokkasho Rhapsody is a Japanese documentary directed by Hitomi Kamanaka and released in 2006. It is the second in Kamanaka's trilogy of films on the problems of nuclear power and radiation, preceded by '' Hibakusha at the End of the World'' (also known as ''Radiat ...
'' * '' 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 ''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...
'' * '' The War Game (1966 BBC)''


Dramatic films

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A Boy and His Dog ''A Boy and His Dog'' is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear wa ...
'' (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 ''The Atomic Cafe'' is a 1982 American documentary film directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early i ...
'' (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 ''The Atomic Kid'' is a 1954 American black-and-white science fiction comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson and starring Mickey Rooney and Robert Strauss. It was distributed by Republic Pictures and produced by Maurice Duke and Mickey ...
'' (1954) - a man is in a house within the danger area of a nuclear bomb test area when the bomb is activated. * ''
Atomic Twister ''Atomic Twister'' is a 2002 American made-for-television disaster film starring Sharon Lawrence and Mark-Paul Gosselaar which revolves around a series of tornadoes that damage a nuclear reactor in a small town in western Tennessee, in turn caus ...
'' (ABC, made-for-TV) - a film about a modern automated power plant in the path of a tornado which threatens the plant * ''
Barefoot Gen is a Japanese historical manga series by Keiji Nakazawa. Loosely based on Nakazawa's own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor, the series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where the six-year-old boy Gen Nakaoka liv ...
'' - 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 ''Battle Beneath the Earth'' is a 1967 British sci-fi thriller film starring Kerwin Mathews. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film also features character actor Ed Bishop. Plot Scientist Arnold Kramer believes that rogue elements o ...
'' (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 ''The Bedford Incident'' is a 1965 British-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier and co-produced by Widmark. The cast also features Eric Portman, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam and Wally Cox, as well as early a ...
'' (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 ''The Beginning or the End'' is a 1947 American docudrama film about the development of the atomic bomb in World War II, directed by Norman Taurog, starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, and Tom Drake, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. T ...
'' (1947) - a fictionalized
docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typic ...
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 ''By Dawn's Early Light'' (also known as ''The Grand Tour'') is an HBO original movie, first aired in 1990. It is based on the 1983 novel ''Trinity's Child'', written by William Prochnau. The film is one of the last to depict the events of a fi ...
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, 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 ''Carol for Another Christmas'' is a 1964 American TV movie, written by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol'' and a plea for global cooperation. It was the first in a planned series of television ...
'' (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 "The Children's Story" is a 4,300-word dystopian fiction novelette by James Clavell. It first appeared in '' Ladies' Home Journal'' (October 1963 issue) and was printed in book form in 1981. It was adapted by Clavell himself into a thirty-mi ...
'' (1982) - this short film, which originally aired on TV's
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, 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 ''The China Syndrome'' is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T. S. Cook. The film stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas (who also produced), Scott Brady, James ...
'' - 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) ''Chernobyl'' is a 2019 historical tragedy television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. It featu ...
'' (HBO, Sky, 2019) - a five-part
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television miniseries, dramatizes the story of the 1986
Chernobyl nuclear disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nucl ...
* '' 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 ''Countdown to Looking Glass'' is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on October 14, 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States ...
'' (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 ''Damnation Alley'' is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, based on a novella published in 1967. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1977. Plot introduction The story opens in a post-apocalyptic Southern C ...
'' (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 ''The Dark Knight Rises'' is a 2012 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer. The film is based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is th ...
'' (2012) - an entire metropolitan city is taken hostage as masked mercenary takes hold of a fully armed neutron bomb. * ''
The Day After ''The Day After'' is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983 on the ABC television network. More than 100 million people, in nearly 39 million households, watched the film during its initial broadcast. With ...
'' (1983) - this made-for-television-movie by
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depicts the consequences of a nuclear war in
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and the surrounding area. * ''
The Day the Earth Caught Fire ''The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' is a British science fiction disaster film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961, and is one of the classic apocalyptic films of its era. The film o ...
'' (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 ''The Day the Fish Came Out'' (Greece: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria) is a 1967 DeLuxe Color Greek–British comedy film directed and written by Michael Cacoyannis who also designed the film's futuristic costumes. The film stars Tom Courte ...
'' 1967. * ''
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'' (CBS, 1989) - made-for-TV docudrama about the
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* '' 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) ''Deterrence'' is a 1999 political thriller drama film written and directed by Rod Lurie, depicting fictional events about nuclear brinkmanship. It marks the feature directorial debut of Lurie, who was previously a film critic for the ''New York ...
'' (1999) - depicting fictional events about nuclear
brinkmanship Brinkmanship (or brinksmanship) is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict. The maneuver of pushing a situation with the opponent to the brink succeeds by forcing the op ...
involving the United States and the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Baghdad, Iraq. * ''
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'' (BBC/HBO, 2004) - follows the journey of a radioactive isotope into England, where it is ultimately turned into multiple
dirty bomb A dirty bomb or radiological dispersal device is a radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of the weapon is to contaminate the area around the dispersal agent/conventional explosion with ...
s and detonated in central London. Meanwhile, the city of London conducts preparedness drills for a possible terrorist attack * ''
Disaster at Silo 7 ''Disaster at Silo 7'' is a 1988 American made-for-television thriller-drama film directed by Larry Elikann. It is loosely based on the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion. Plot During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel ...
'' (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
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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 Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, altern ...
in which Soviet hard-liners oust
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with the
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intact, soon initiating a conventional war which accidentally triggers a full nuclear exchange; the film then rewinds to the
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and ends with jubilant scenes from the " different path" of our history. * ''
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'' (1964) - a film based on the novel of the same name about an American bomber crew and nuclear tensions * ''
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'' (CBS, 2000) - a remake of the 1964 film, broadcast live and in black-and-white * ''
Fat Man and Little Boy ''Fat Man and Little Boy'' (released in the United Kingdom as ''Shadow Makers'') is a 1989 epic historical war film directed by Roland Joffé who co-wrote the script with Bruce Robinson. The story follows the Manhattan Project, the secret All ...
'' a.k.a. ''Shadow Makers'' (1989) - film that reenacts the
Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...
* ''
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'' (1951) - Four men and a woman together are apparent sole survivors of a global nuclear holocaust. * ''
Friend of the World ''Friend of the World'' is a 2020 American independent black-and-white film written and directed by Brian Patrick Butler in his feature film debut, starring Nick Young and Alexandra Slade. The surreal experimental film takes place post-apocalyp ...
'' (2020) - Trapped in a bunker, a
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and a military general piece together the cause of nuclear war. * '' A Gathering of Eagles'' (1963) - a
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B-52 The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air ...
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. * ''
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'' (1954) - nuclear tests in the South Pacific awakens a giant, prehistoric monster who threatens to destroy
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. * ''
Goldeneye ''GoldenEye'' is a 1995 spy film, the seventeenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Martin Campbell, it was the first in the ser ...
'' (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 ''Hava Aney Dey'' ('' en, Let the Wind Blow'') is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Partho Sen-Gupta. It stars Aniket Vishwasrao, Nishikant Kamat, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Rajshree Thakur in the lead roles. The fil ...
'' (2004) - Indian drama film by
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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
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(RAW) agent who must terrorists from gaining access to a nuclear bomb. * ''
The Hunt for Red October ''The Hunt for Red October'' is the debut novel by American author Tom Clancy, first published on October 1, 1984, by the Naval Institute Press. It depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seemingly goes rogue with his country's cutt ...
'' (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
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, 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) ''Matinee'' is a 1993 American comedy film directed by Joe Dante. It is about a William Castle-type independent filmmaker, with the American home front during the Cuban Missile Crisis as a backdrop. The film stars John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Si ...
'' - this film takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis and dramatizes the lives of Americans about to meet their impending doom. * ''
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'' (1988) - a film about two lovers in
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leading up to a nuclear war * ''
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'' (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'' (
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, 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 '' the Wire'' is a 2021 American science fiction action film directed by Mikael Håfström. It stars Anthony Mackie (who also produced) as an android officer who works with a drone pilot (Damson Idris) to stop a global catastrophe. Emily Beecham ...
'' (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
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, the Indian nuclear weapons test at
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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. * ''
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'' (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 ''Race for the Bomb'' (french: La Course à la bombe) is a 1987 television 3-parts miniseries about the Manhattan Project, starting from the initial stages of scientific discovery that led to the creation of the atomic bomb, discovery of the Ulam-T ...
'' * '' The Rainbow Warrior'' * ''
Right at Your Door ''Right at Your Door'' is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles. Chris Gorak both wrote the screenplay and directed the film in his writing and direc ...
'' (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 ''Silkwood'' is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was adapted from the book ''Who Killed Karen Silkwood?'' by ''Rollin ...
'' (1983) - inspired by the true-life story of
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, who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the
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plant where she workedRobert Benford
The Anti-nuclear Movement (book review)
''American Journal of Sociology'', Vol. 89, No. 6, (May 1984), pp. 1456-1458.
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Space Cowboys ''Space Cowboys'' is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old ...
'' (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 ''Special Bulletin'' is a 1983 American made-for-television film. It was an early collaboration between director Edward Zwick and writer Marshall Herskovitz, a team that would later produce such series as ''thirtysomething'' and ''My So-Called ...
'' (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'' (
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, 1983) - depicts the after-effects of a nuclear war in a town near
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* '' Thirteen Days'' (2000) - tells the story of the
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of 1962 * '' Threads'' (
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, 1984) - this film, set in the British city of
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, shows the long-term results of a nuclear war on the surrounding area. * '' Tirangaa'' (''Tricolour'', 1993) - Indian action drama film by
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'' (1977) - tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general, who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana, threatening to launch the missiles and start World War III unless the President reveals a top secret document to the American people about the Vietnam War * ''
Under Siege ''Under Siege'' is a 1992 American action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis, written by J. F. Lawton, and starring Steven Seagal as a former Navy SEAL who must stop a group of mercenaries, led by Tommy Lee Jones, after they commandeer the ...
'' (1992) - movie about arms dealers who take over a U.S. Navy battleship, and attempt to sell the ship's nuclear-tipped Tomahawk Cruise Missiles on the black market * ''Vikram'' (1986) - Indian action adventure film by Rajasekhar about a
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agent who has to retrieve
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, a stolen nuclear-capable Indian
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. * ''
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'' (BBC, 1965) - an early drama-documentary that depicts the effects of a nuclear war in Britain following a conventional war that escalates to nuclear war * ''
WarGames ''WarGames'' is a 1983 American science fiction techno-thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows Dav ...
'' (1983) - about a young
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who accidentally hacks into a defense computer and risks starting a nuclear war * ''
Watchmen ''Watchmen'' is an American comic book maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-vo ...
'' (2009) - an alternate universe superhero film based on the DC
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set in the year 1985 at the height of the Cold War. During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the superpowered Dr. Manhattan acts as America's symbolic nuclear deterrent. * '' When the Wind Blows'' (1986) - an animated film about an elderly British couple in a post-nuclear war world * ''
The World Is Not Enough ''The World Is Not Enough'' is a 1999 spy film, the nineteenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Michael Apted, from an ...
'' (1999) - tells the story of a terrorist stealing a nuclear bomb in order to create an accident with a stolen nuclear submarine


See also

* Environmental issues in film and television *
International Uranium Film Festival The International Uranium Film Festival was founded in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, and has traveled to Germany, Portugal, India and the United States. This educational event merges art, ecology, environmentalism and environmental justice, to inform the ...
*
List of books about nuclear issues This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power. *''The Algebra of Infinite Justice'' (2001) *'' American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J ...
*
List of films about renewable energy {{short description, None This is a list of films about renewable and alternative energy. * ''Carbon Nation'' * '' Catching the Sun'' * '' The Fourth Revolution: Energy'' * ''Fuel'' * '' Gashole'' * ''Gasland'' * '' Generation on the Wind'' * ''Go ...
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List of nuclear holocaust fiction This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a theoretical military conflict or ...
* List of songs about nuclear war and weapons *
Nuclear weapons in popular culture Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age". Images of nuclear w ...


References


External links


Video of British nuclear tests

Annotated bibliography for nuclear film from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues



Nuclear issue films from the Video Project
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