Movies for Nuclear Nightmares!
I offer a list of the best Atomic Films that I am currently aware exists ...
For in-depth detail of these nuclear media masterpieces, I encourage you to vistit The Internet Movie Database and check out the nitty-gritty details on all the films listed below. Then you can go rent them from your favorite esoteric video shop to experience the full-on (albeit smaller-screen) visual impact!
- The Atomic Cafe
- The Day After Trinity
- Radio Bikini
- Trinity and Beyond (The Atomic Bomb Movie)
- Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Fail-Safe
- On the Beach
- Testament
- Them!
- The Sum of All Fears
- Thirteen Days
- WarGames
Other films featuring Atomic nods ...
- The 4D Man
- A Boy and His Dog
- The Abyss
- Amazing Grace and Chuck
- The Amazing Colossal Man
- America's Atomic Bomb Tests: Operation Hardtack
- The Atomic City
- Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero
- The Atomic Man
- The Atomic Submarine
- Atomic Train
- Atomic War Bride: This Is Not a Test
- Barefoot Gen (Japanese)
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
- The Beast of Yucca Flats
- The Bedford Incident
- The Beginning or the End?
- Behemoth, The Sea Monster
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes
- The Big Snit
- Black Rain (Japanese)
- The Black Scorpion
- Bloodfist VI
- The Boys from Panisperna Street (I Ragazzi di via Panisperna)
- Bride of the Atom
- Blue Sky
- Broken Arrow
- By Dawn's Early Light (TV)
- The Cats of Mirikitani
- Canadian Bacon
- Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys
- Captive Women
- The China Syndrome
- Class of Nuke 'Em High
- Cloak and Dagger
- Countdown to Looking Glass (TV)
- The Creature with the Atom Brain
- The Conqueror (Filmed in 50s Nevada: 46 cast and crew dead from radiation-related cancer)
- Creation of the Humanoids
- Crimson Tide
- Dark Star
- The Day After (TV)
- The Day The Earth Caught Fire
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- The Day the World Ended
- Destruction Derby
- Desert Bloom
- Deterrence
- Disaster at Silo 7 (TV)
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes
- Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan
- Empire of The Sun
- Fat Man and Little Boy (A.K.A. The Shadowmakers)
- Forbidden Planet
- From Hell it Came
- Frostfire (TV)
- Ground Zero (1987)
- Godzilla (Japanese)
- The H-Man (Japanese)
- The Hideous Demon
- Hiroshima, Mon Amour
- The Hunt for Red October
- Ice Station Zebra
- Infinity
- In the Year 2889
- Independence Day
- In Like Flint
- Island of Terror
- It Came from Beneath the Sea
- Invasion, U.S.A.
- Jericho (TV)
- King Dinosaur
- Kiss Me Deadly
- Kronos, Ravager of Planets
- Ladybug, Ladybug
- The Lost Missile
- MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (TV)
- Malevil
- Mars Attacks!
- Matinee
- Miracle Mile
- Monstrosity (The Atomic Brain)
- The Mouse That Roared
- The Most Dangerous Man Alive
- Mulholland Falls
- My Life as a Dog
- N.E.S.T.
- Nightbreaker
- One Night Stand
- Operation Plutonium (TV)
- The Peacemaker
- Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
- The Planet of the Apes
- Plutonium Circus
- Predator
- Project Shadowchaser II
- The Rainbow Bombs: Nukes in Space
- Reflecting Skin
- Repo Man
- Resan Rocket Attack, U.S.A.
- Royce
- Seven Islands
- Silent Running
- Silkwood
- Space Cowboys
- Spiderman
- Split Second
- Spontaneous Combustion
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- These Are the Damned
- Threads (TV)
- Thunder Run
- Top Secret
- True Lies
- Twilight's Last Gleaming
- The Unbelievable Truth
- Under Siege
- Under Siege II
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- War of the Colossal Beast
- War of the Worlds
- When the Wind Blows
- The World, The Flesh and The Devil
- World War III
- X-The Unknown
If you have any other Atomic Movies to contribute to this list, please feel free to e-mail me at
lazarus@atom-o-vision.com
and I'll gladly add them. Thanks a half-shelf-life in advance!
