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Aug 26, 2015 · Culture & Life. Features. Apocalypse then: The forgotten history of 1980s nuclear panic movies. Movies like The Day After and Miracle Mile offer a glimpse at a time when the threat of...
Jul 21, 2023 · 4. White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Steven Okazaki, 2007) In trying to reflect the whole landscape of cinema, Steven Okazaki’s documentary about the nuclear attacks that bookended WWII has also made our exclusive cut of movies. An HBO documentary created in unison with the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of ...
Apr 28, 2015 · Miracle Mile (1988) Just when you finally meet the love of your life, that’s when the bombs start falling. Anthony Edwards plays a man who is trying to find the woman he is in love with ...
- Imum OverDrive (1986) - 5.5
- Helens (1981) - 6.2
- Quiet Earth (1985) - 6.5
- Tament (1983) - 6.9
- Acle Mile (1988) - 7.0
- Day After (1983) - 7.1
- Falls (1980) - 7.3
- Pazh (1980) - 7.5
- Abyss (1989) - 7.5
- Plane! (1980) - 7.6
Using some creative, but questionable, scientific concepts, Maximum Overdriveexplores what happens when a comet passing through Earth's orbit transforms machines into sentient killing contraptions. As the entire planet is besieged by a violent uprising, the film's narrative focuses on a small truck stop in North Carolina are held hostage by a gang ...
HBO is behind this made-for-TV dramatization of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. After being awoken by an earthquake on March 20, the volcano's explosive rupture on May 18. St. Helensoffers up a pretty straightforward narrative, showing how government officials urged those in the volcano's danger zone to leave after the ea...
A contemplative post-apocalyptic feature from New Zealand, The Quiet Earthshows how one survivor copes with the fall-out from an international scientific project that goes wrong. Bruno Lawrence plays Zac Hobson, a scientist working on a top-secret new energy grid, wakes one morning to realize he's the only person alive on Earth after his Project Fl...
The star-studded cast of Testamentincludes Kevin Costner, Rebecca De Mornay, William Devane, and Lukas Haas. After nuclear warheads devastate major cities up and down the coast, residents of the fictional town of Hamelin, California, contend with radiation poisoning and the slow dissolution of their town's public services. Without access to the out...
Imagine meeting one's dream partner, only to have the romance interrupted by the breakout of WWIII. This is what transpires in Miracle Mile, a disaster flick starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham. RELATED: The 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Disaster Movies Ever Made When Edwards's character, Harry, finds out Los Angeles will be destroyed by nuclear bomb...
The Day Afteris another cautionary tale about nuclear war that scared the pants off viewers when more than 100 million people tuned into it on ABC. The movie exploits the collective anxiety about the nuclear arms race in the 1980s between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the film, people in and around Lawrence, Kansas as NATO and the Sovi...
The Fallsis a singular disaster movie from British director Peter Greenaway. Greenaway's first official feature-length film is a three-hour mockumentary about 92 people who survived a terrible catastrophe referred to as the Violent Unknown Event (or VUE) in the film. RELATED: 10 Classic Natural Disaster Movies Ranked By Rotten Tomatoes These surviv...
Released in America under the title Air Crew, Ekipazh is the first disaster movie shot in the Soviet Union. Inspired by the Airport movies from the 1970s, Ekipazhcenters around Soviet commercial pilots whose personal lives weigh heavily on their work. When an earthquake devastates a fictional Asian town where they have just landed their Tu-154 Aero...
After a military submarine sinks in the Cayman Trough, an oil rig crew is recruited by the US government to conduct a search-and-rescue mission in The Abyss. A group of Navy SEALS arrives to assist with the effort, but what the gang finds underwater is something out of this world. This James Cameron big-budget epicstars Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, an...
The best disaster movie from the 1980s, at least according to IMDb, is a comedy that riffs on disaster movies. Airplane! is a cult classic parody starring Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty. Hays plays Ted Striker, a former pilot with PTSD who is forced to land a commercial passenger plane after its crew is ravaged by food poisoning. Replete with quotab...
1984 1h 30m. 6.9 (723) Rate. TV Movie. Dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. Director Fred Barzyk Stars Scott Glenn Michael Murphy Helen Shaver. 3. Day One. 1989 2h 21m Not Rated.
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Mar 28, 2024 · By the 1980s, the Cold War was so ubiquitous in American life that even teen romance movies took place with the backdrop of potential nuclear war.
The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack. Director Lynne Littman Stars Jane Alexander William Devane Rossie Harris. 4. The Day After. 1983 2h 7m TV-PG. 7.0 (18K) Rate. TV Movie. The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
