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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 ...
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...
- By Dawn’s Early Light
- The Day After
- Day The World Ended
- Fail-Safe
- Godzilla
- On The Beach
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Threads
- Wargames
- Bonus Round: Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode Eight
Long before HBO became the programming powerhouse that it is today, it produced this made-for-TV military disaster movie with a surprisingly robust cast, including Powers Boothe, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau, Rebecca De Mornay, and Rip Torn. It imagines an incident in which Soviet dissidents launch a missile at their own country, aiming to jump-...
The Day After traumatized an entire generation, in part because practically everyone in the country watched it when it aired on ABC, but also because it presented a reasonably believable recreation of what a nuclear war would be like, as experienced by regular Americans. (This movieinfluenced presidents.) Most of the movie takes place in Kansas and...
You could actually make an entire separate list of “movies that begin with a mushroom cloud,” and they wouldn’t all be totally scary (like, say, 1975's affably weird A Boy and His Dog). This one’s plenty unnerving, though. Low-budget B-movie master Roger Corman’s Day the World Ended quite obviously takes place in the wake of the day in question, wh...
Sidney Lumet’s talky thriller begins with the ultimate, terrible “oops,” as a drifting civilian airliner triggers a military alert which must be called off by a certain point, or else nukes will rain down on Moscow. A series of gut-punching dominoes fall. First, a computer error fails to notify all the bombers of the mistake. Then, Soviet radio-jam...
Just nine years after the end of World War II, Japan—the only country that’s actually known the terror of having atomic bombs dropped on its cities—gifted Godzillaunto the world. While the series now contains dozens of entries showcasing a variety of giant monsters, including a handful of American versions of wildly varying quality, Ishiro Honda’s ...
In this film directed by Stanley Kramer (High Noon, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg) and based on the best-seller by Nevil Shute, World War III has ruined the world, with only Australia still habitable—for now. In the precious time before radiation overtakes the entire planet, the crew of a lone submarine looks for a miracle as it chases a ...
Yes, of course, this is mostly a movie about time-traveling assassin robots, Linda Hamilton’s boss biceps, and “Hasta la vista, baby.” But James Cameron’s excellent scifi sequel also contains one of the scariest nuclear-strike scenes ever, as imagined by Hamilton’s character, Sarah Connor. After drifting off in exhaustion, she sees herself as a you...
A year after The Day After, British TV made its own realistically terrifying depiction of nuclear war, though it was more directly inspired by 1965's The War Game, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary (despite being the fictional tale of a Soviet attack on Britain) and was initially banned from the airwaves for being too distressing. Enter Threa...
One of Matthew Broderick’s earliest starring roles was as David Lightman, a Seattle teen whose talents include hacking into his high school’s computer grid to change his grades. He thinks he’s merely playing a game when he connects with a strange system that “speaks” with a droll affect as it agrees to play David in Global Thermonuclear War. Except...
This isn’t a movie, nor is it an attack—it’s a nuclear bomb test in White Sands, New Mexico, dated July 16, 1945, just weeks before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were dropped. But it’s weirdly timely that David Lynch made a nuclear bomb such a prominent part of Twin Peaks’ most standout episode so far—and downright eerie how he points to the awe...
May 16, 1982 · Yet in the audience, youngsters and adults alike are convulsed with laughter. Burt the Turtle, a cartoon figure from the 1950's, is demonstrating what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion ...
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 ...
Dec 4, 2023 · Home. Movies. Movie News. Apocalypse Then: 40 Years Ago, A TV Movie Saved the World from Nuclear Annihilation. ABC’s 1983 film 'The Day After' — the subject of a new documentary as well as...
5. Barefoot Gen. 1983 1h 23m TV-PG. 8.0 (9.2K) Rate. A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Director Mori Masaki Stars Issei Miyazaki Catherine Battistone Yoshie Shimamura.
