List of films about nuclear issues

This is a list of films about nuclear issues:

Documentary films

• Atomic Power (film)
• Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
• Duck and Cover
• Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl
• Hiroshima
• If You Love This Planet
• Nuclear Tipping Point
• Protect and Survive
• Race for the Bomb
• Radio Bikini
• Silent Storm
• The Atomic Café
• The Mushroom Club
• The Rainbow Warrior
• The Return of Navajo Boy
• White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• The Atom Strikes!

Movies

• 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.
• Countdown to Looking Glass (HBO, 1984) -- A film that presents a simulated news broadcast about a nuclear war.
• Damnation Alley (20th Century Fox, 1977) -- 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.
• 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.
• Fail-Safe (1964) -- A film based on a novel of the same name about an American bomber crew and nuclear tensions.
• Fail-Safe (CBS, 2000) -- A remake of the 1964 film.
• Miracle Mile (1988) -- A film about two lovers in Los Angeles leading up to a nuclear war.
• 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 (Showcase, 2000) -- A remake of the 1959 film.
• Silkwood (1983) was 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 worked.
• Testament (PBS, 1983) -- Depicts the after-effects of a nuclear war in a town near San Francisco, California.
• The Children's Story (1982) 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 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 a near-meltdown (the "China syndrome" of the title) at a local nuclear plant, which was averted by a quick-thinking engineer, played by Jack Lemmon. The plot suggests that corporate greed and cost-cutting "have led to potentially deadly faults in the plant's construction".
• The Day After (1983) -- This made-for-television-movie by ABC that depicts the consequences of a nuclear war in Lawrence, Kansas and the surrounding area.
• The Manhattan Project (1986) -- Though not about a nuclear war, it was seen as a cautionary tale.
• The Sacrifice (Sweden, 1986) -- A philosophical drama about nuclear war.
• The War Game (BBC, 1965) -- Depicts the effects of a nuclear war in Britain following a conventional war that escalates to nuclear war.
• Threads (BBC, 1984) -- A film that is set in the British city of Sheffield and shows the long-term results of a nuclear war on the surrounding area.
• WarGames (1983) -- About a young computer hacker that accidentally hacks into a defense computer and risks starting a nuclear war.
• When the Wind Blows (1986) -- An animated film about an elderly British couple in a post-nuclear war world.

See also

• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of nuclear holocaust fiction
• Environmental issues in film and television

External links

• Video of British Nuclear Tests
• Annotated bibliography for nuclear film from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues