Nuclear War Movies? [Archive]

Herrmannek

09-08-2003, 05:44 AM

I'm searching for nuclear weaponary(generally WMD) related movies all genres(documentary, civil defense, comedys, thrillers) from whole world.

Titles, links to descriptions, sig2dat links(kazaa) all info you can get.

I've seen those(have them on CD's so if you live near Wrocław, I can burn them on CD. Most of them are impossible to get in Poland so stop talking about copyrights)
Duck&Cover (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=19069)
Threads
Day After, The
Miracle Mile
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Mad Max
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Discussion about them also nicely seen.

txajas

09-08-2003, 06:04 AM

I have a few titles to add to your list:

BY DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT and Miracle Mile- Twp HBO movies made in the late 80s I think.

Oxley

09-08-2003, 07:54 AM

Terminator 3...?

ArmoredDov_D9

09-08-2003, 11:17 AM

"Terminator 2 : The Judgement Day"

Special F/X guru Stan Winston and his crew studied hours of nuclear test footage in order to make Sarah Connor's "nuclear nightmare" scene as real as possible. In late 1991, members of several U.S. federal nuclear testing labs unofficially declared it "the most accurate depiction of a nuclear blast ever created for a fictional motion picture".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/trivia

Kitsune

09-08-2003, 12:19 PM

Don' forget "On the Beach" !

Trigger

09-08-2003, 12:50 PM

The Peacemaker

USMA_SCUBA

09-08-2003, 01:50 PM

Broken Arrow

James

09-08-2003, 02:04 PM

Fail Safe.

If you are interested in films that don't necessarily involve a nuclear exchange but are set during the cold war I would strongly recommend

13 Days
7 Days in May

Trigger

09-08-2003, 02:04 PM

I guess 'Broken Arrow' counts...he didn't say 'good' nuclear war movies rofl

Fail Safe is one of my favorites.

hood

09-08-2003, 04:23 PM

Sum of All Fears

Trigger

09-08-2003, 05:03 PM

:roll: *see my previous post :|
good book though :D

JiJoMacLE45

09-09-2003, 12:21 AM

Forget the name, but the one w/ Powers Booth and Rebecca DeMornay as a B-52 crew and James Earl Jones as their commander.

edited to stay: 'By Dawn's Early Light' is the name of it.

Herrmannek

09-09-2003, 03:13 AM

Thanks for info, but do you know less known movies (Terminator and Sum of all Fears are mandatory even they are mainly not about WMD).

Ichhabe

09-09-2003, 07:58 AM

The Mouse that Roared. A hilarious movie from 1959 with Peter Sellers. I laughed myself silly when the USA was forced to surrender to this tiny mini-state in Europe. Specially the part were their Army of Invasion got from Grand Fenwick (a mini mini state in the middle of Europe.) to the USA and actually think that they have won the war is just to funny.
http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/m/mouse-that-roared.shtml

Herrmannek

09-09-2003, 08:49 AM

"On the beach" was/is great movie I've seen it few years ago but didn't remember title
"By Dawn's Early Light" sounds promising
"Fail Safe" I'm not sure if I didn't seen this before
"Broken Arrow" :oops: (just my opinion, let's say I don't like Travolta)
The Mouse that Roared rofl

Hey guys there must be more, plz

Trigger

09-09-2003, 12:03 PM

"A Boy and His Dog" - goofy post apocalyptic flick starring Don Johnson (Miami Vice).

txajas

09-10-2003, 11:09 PM

Forget the name, but the one w/ Powers Booth and Rebecca DeMornay as a B-52 crew and James Earl Jones as their commander.

Doctor Strange love, or how I learned to love the bomb :)

Speaking of Dr. Strange love, Dr. Teller the father of the H-bomb and the guy who served as inspiration for the character of Dr. Strangelove died today at age of 95.

Stormtrooper

09-12-2003, 01:23 AM

Forget the name, but the one w/ Powers Booth and Rebecca DeMornay as a B-52 crew and James Earl Jones as their commander.

edited to stay: 'By Dawn's Early Light' is the name of it.

Wait a moment! Is this where the B52 is declared a renegade, and the film ends with Looking Glass crashing into Air Force One?
Also, in this film, is the president blinded and stuck in a hospital somewhere, unable to contact NEACP?

I think i watched it when i was young....

And if you want hilarity, you can try WarGames. I think it hails from the 1980's... something about a hacker playing WWIII on a comp. The catch is, everybody else thinks that the Soviets have actually launched.

XASA

09-12-2003, 10:19 AM

"Ravagers" with Richard Harris, Art Carney and Ernest Borgnine was just on cable last night. Post-Nuclear War flick made in 1979 and set in 1991! Not to be confused with a quicky WWII flick "The Ravagers" made in the Philippines.

Kenshin

09-12-2003, 01:57 PM

Is Original PLanet of the Apes movie counted?

The ending depicts an after nuke war to which humans died and apes survived.

odh2507

09-14-2003, 11:58 AM

not sure if it's nuclear

EXECUTIVE DECISION

like to hear feedback from ya'll on that (did ya'll like that movie? i love it)

Merik

09-14-2003, 03:59 PM

I cant believe no one has said "The Manhatten Project" yet. Thats probably the best one becuase it shows the making of the first a-bomb and the decisions the scientists were forced to make.

vryhpyammoadded

09-15-2003, 11:51 PM

Check out this little known Nuke movie. Whoops Apocalypse (The BBC one from 1981) http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/top100/whoopsapocalypse_1299003340.shtml I laughed till I hurt with this one.

Or, this movie: Fat man and Little boy http://movies.go.com/filmography/Credits?movie_id=31840 A bit melodramatic but still a good movie about making the Trinity bomb.

txajas

09-16-2003, 03:16 AM

not sure if it's nuclear

EXECUTIVE DECISION

like to hear feedback from ya'll on that (did ya'll like that movie? i love it)

Was that the one where Steven Seagal dies during the first 10 minutes or so? I remember watching it in the theatre and people went wild when ol' Steve died, the rest of the movie was pretty crappy IMHO, but any movie where Seagal dies with extreme prejudice is OK with me :).

papabear

09-17-2003, 03:43 AM

not sure if it's nuclear

EXECUTIVE DECISION

like to hear feedback from ya'll on that (did ya'll like that movie? i love it)

not nuclear, biochem weapon involved...

NcDeuce

10-22-2003, 09:57 PM

EXECUTIVE DECISION

Halle Barry is in that movie, :P

Aussie2093

10-24-2003, 04:35 PM

What about 'The Postman' with Kevin Costner...?

*gets ready for a beating..*

:bash: AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

GearGod

10-25-2003, 12:03 AM

I second BROKEN ARROW

Did anyone say SUM OF ALL FEARS with BEN AFFLECK? BADASS GREAT MOVIE!! Featuring REAL Marines! IT IS A MUST-SEE---- I REPEAT--- YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE!! ITS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU DO SO!!

http://www.sumofallfearsmovie.com/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/sum_of_all_fears/soaf_large.html

RealUltimatePower

10-25-2003, 10:24 PM

Pretty sure of this one

The Manhattan Project

Herrmannek

10-26-2003, 05:56 AM

Anyone know non USA WMD movies?

Dalleer

10-30-2003, 04:08 PM

I don't know about Sum of all fears but Broken arrow was just something; especially when Mr. Travolta was in it...whew.

Not that Broken arrow was even close to realistic, but it had John Travolta.

Armour recon

11-04-2003, 01:24 PM

Did you say S.O.A.F is a BAD ASS MOVIE???

That's one of the WORST films hollywood has ever made![/quote]

Henk

11-04-2003, 03:46 PM

Red Dawn?

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Gringo

11-04-2003, 05:04 PM

"Mein Furher! I can walk!"
the last words spoken before the bomb went off in Dr Strangelove

MARINO

11-22-2003, 08:01 PM

THE SUM OF ALL FEARS

MARINO

11-22-2003, 08:02 PM

we can see a good attack from tu-22 to a carrier

LazerLordz

03-12-2005, 01:33 PM

Play the Fallout RPG series... :D

Freibier

03-12-2005, 01:51 PM

When the Wind blows

Herrmannek

03-12-2005, 02:11 PM

found it in edonkey i think, hope its good

b33f

03-12-2005, 02:12 PM

we can see a good attack from tu-22 to a carrier

those were tu-22s? really?

Nordic Fire

03-12-2005, 03:42 PM

My favourite: "On the Beach (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/)".

Flagg

03-12-2005, 05:58 PM

Mark Sman

03-12-2005, 06:30 PM

The War Game (1965) is the BBC miniseries you are probably looking for.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0059894/

Can't forget Damnation Alley

PhillyMobster

03-12-2005, 08:53 PM

AHRGH!

Sum of All Fears was awful! Aside from the fact that Ben Affleck is one of the most atrocious actors ever to make a movie, the scenes of him running around ground zero without any nuke protection, and then making it out unscathed were brutal to watch. I just wanted the pompous little a**hole to get it over with and die! :fork:

P.S.
Uh, who would want to nuke Baltimore, anyway??

mi35d

03-12-2005, 10:42 PM

"The Manhattan Project" with Brian Denehey is probably the most factual. General Groves was seen as a dumbass military jackass by the scientists because of his gruff attitude but the man was highly educated.

"Fat Man and Little Boy" was an anti-nuclear piece of fiction by Paul "I hate Nukes and the military" Newman. Just a piece of crap.

I worked "Minute Man III's" for 8 years and we would chuckle our ever lovin' asses off every time we watched "Wargames". What a friggin' crock of sheeeeeeeit!

n.ignomo

03-13-2005, 05:56 AM

USS CHarleston. About an american submarine just after everybody on earth died because of nukes. He's trying to find someone, the only ones remaining are Aussie who commit mass suicides.

Mjöllnir

03-13-2005, 11:34 AM

instead of "Duck an Cover" you should search for the film
"Atomic Cafe"

It´s a persiflage to "Duck and Cover" (DaC).
They mix the scenes from "DaC" with some real info´s of nuclear weapons.

Example:
1st you see a scene from DaC where a "specialist" tolds you that the strongest A-bomb is only dangerous in about 12 miles.

Then you see a film of an A-bomb-test made by the US-Army with the coment: "The nuclear cloud has now a diameter of 25 miles"

norge71

03-13-2005, 12:47 PM

There was a great Sydney Poitie (sp?) movie called The Bedford Incident. Don't forget about a made for TV movie I think it was called Special Broadcast about terrorists having a nuke in Charleston Harbor which was pretty good. There was also a recent remake of Fail Safe with George Clooney (but I haven't seen this one).
There are a few like Trinity and Beyond such as Nukes in Space but I can't recall the others.
As far as Sci/fi and fantasy, there are tons where they're used. From War of the Worlds to Aliens to the new Battlestar Galactica (which is totally awesome!).
When it comes to WMD my favorite has to be Stephen King's the Stand.
But as far as nukes you can't go wrong with Fail Safe or Dr. Strangelove.

Herrmannek

03-13-2005, 02:15 PM

iv'e seen most of the movies...atomic cafe can't get it on emule and looking for years with some intervals, War Game new title for me , but because its old series it will be proly even harder to find... As on the bitch, it was cool movie to the moment when they all commited suicide esspecialy Austarlia was untouched, radiocativity would be so sparse after spreading around whole globe they wouldn't have even raised leukemia statistics...

Herrmannek

03-13-2005, 02:17 PM

oh and there is atomic cafe in the edonkey....

Herrmannek

03-13-2005, 02:20 PM

I've read about a movie or mini-series produced in the UK in the 1980's that apparantly blew away The Day After in terms of it's brutal graphic reality.

Can anyone help me out with this?
Threads, but my was full time tv movie, very good , one of the best if you ask me...

Cool both war game and cafe is in edonkey network woot woot woot

Malarky

03-14-2005, 12:42 PM

Defcon 4

Abolith

03-14-2005, 08:08 PM

DO NOT WATCH THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
it is nothing more than a low B, early 80's OMFG the Russkies have nuked us all!!111!
it REALLY sucked.

2Sheds_Jackson

03-15-2005, 04:05 PM

Oh man - there are so many of these movies around from the 50's to the 70's (after that, man's fear tended to shift from nukes to aliens I guess)

Omega Man
Mad Max
Damnation Alley
Planet of the Apes (all twenty of them)
Logan's Run
Tarantula
Godzilla
Night of the Living Dead
Them
Amazing Colossal Man
...countless giant bug/atomic brain movies from the 50's & 60's

melon

03-15-2005, 07:22 PM

Can't think of it, but there was a recent PBS showing of some movie based in London about a Dirty Bomb attack. Interesting topic, but barely scrapes the surface of what the results would be like. Can't blame them, its hard to put 100,000 people running for their lives. Would make 9/11 seem trivial by comparison.

Another one was a BBC movie about a possible WWIII scenario. Brits are good at making these types of films, in the US, we would fill it with crappy made for TV special effects that cheapen the subject. BTW, the film I am thinking of didnt look like it was made in the 60's, IIRC, it came out in the early 80's, maybe near the time of "The Day After."

BTW, The Day After was pretty good, up until the actual attack. The news reports and escalating tension levels are pretty good, not to mention the warning signal that went out after Brussels was nuked. It made an impression on me. It was pretty accurate on how a Soviet invasion into West Germany might have gone, given the state of both military's at the time (Soviets at their peak, US changing its image and capabilities). Again, its hard to imagine, much less put on to film what the aftermath would be like after a full scale nuclear exchange.

By Dawn's Early Light was pretty good, IMO. Nobody has mentioned Crimson Tide (title?) with Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, about a US Nuclear sub during a fake Russian rebel takeover of some ICBM's. Pretty good, they tried to keep it realistic, nothing sensational.

Hunt for Red October was awesome, despite its plot leaving the book storyline. Would loved to have seen the A-10 simulated attack on the Kirov battle cruiser on film, or the book ending on film as well.

Herrmannek

04-09-2005, 07:02 AM

War Game-one of the most informative movies ever..., it didn't said nothing i haven't know already but was state of the art picture of what will happen(of course not full one)... So if you don't live with nuclear war in mind and prepare yourself by changing place of living to deserted, preferably not foliaged with anything except small amount of grass mountains), building sufficient infrastructure, securing enough materials for months or years of life after the war happened wich is virtualy impossible(maybe except lotto winers) you are fukking dead man in the case of war...

"When the wind blows" is rather tale with morale, not very informative and quite "optimistic" portray of nuclear war...still nice, technicaly very nice animation.

Atomic caffe, like many said: documentary about development of atomic hype in US, quite good, still virtualy no info for atomic survivors.

It was worth to wait a month to download theam all

Herrmannek

04-09-2005, 07:08 AM

OH and by WMD movies i meant the ones where something is actualy "exploding". Plitical "how to not blow world into snow bits pictures with happy end" doesn't interest me more than any other flicks ...

I'm hobby nuclear war survivalist, so i dig to learn "what if scenarios", some technical info about shelters(I love huge command or civil defense ones), and etc things instead of watching porn...

anti_septic

04-09-2005, 10:15 AM

My favourite: "On the Beach (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/)".

Good movie.....both the original and the remake.

I've read about a movie or mini-series produced in the UK in the 1980's that apparantly blew away The Day After in terms of it's brutal graphic reality.

Can anyone help me out with this?

That could be 'Threads'

I can't remember if it was a single episode or a miniseries made in about 1980 (I think). Scared the hell out of me back then

frogfoot

04-09-2005, 01:36 PM

Non U.S. movies:
Constantine Lopusanski:Letters from the Dead Man (1986 USSR)
Piotr Sulkin:End of the civilization (1985 Poland)

Herrmannek

04-10-2005, 03:20 PM

Non U.S. movies:
Constantine Lopusanski:Letters from the Dead Man (1986 USSR)
Piotr Sulkin:End of the civilization (1985 Poland)
Tell more about polish one..i don't think i saw it...

rawkitheart

04-10-2005, 04:22 PM

The Atomic Cafe

it's a 2 hour long movie of mixed footage about nuclear weapons from testing to civilian propaghanda. if you cant find the clip you want in this movie -- you wont find it anywhere else.

**edit**
--oopsy guess you already found it

IronCross1985

04-11-2005, 12:39 AM

Sum of All Fears
GREAT movie...

Ratamacue

04-11-2005, 12:42 AM

Sum of All Fears
GREAT movie...
rofl

Minardiau

04-11-2005, 02:05 AM

2RHPZ

05-12-2005, 09:56 AM

A-Bomb Blast Effects (1959)

Footage from an atomic bomb test - perhaps Operation Tumbler-Snapper?

This silent color film depicts an atomic bomb test somewhere in a desert area. The film is very scratchy, but the images are moving and affecting.

Soldiers ducking to shield their eyes from the blast and standing up, only to be knocked down by the shockwave.

The soldiers advance to the bombed-out area and a montage of clips shows a comparison of objects before and after the bomb.

This film shows the horrors of the atomic bomb, and is an excellent record of an event that most people my age have not experienced(myself included) in this day and age, namely; a above-ground nuclear test.
Highly reccomended.

http://ia108629.us.archive.org/3/items/a-bomb_blast_effects/a-bomb_blast_effects.gif (http://www.archive.org/details/a-bomb_blast_effects)

Hydro

05-13-2005, 07:56 AM

As mentioned before, try and get Threads. The BBC `80`s dramatised documentary about a nuclear strike on the UK. It was repeated not that long ago, a very scary film. Theres something about traffic wardens being handed SLR`s to keep looters at bay that doesn`t sit right with me. They`ve too much of a power trip as it is.

Herrmannek

05-13-2005, 02:04 PM

Herrmannek

07-06-2005, 06:13 PM

Just watched remake of the "On the beach" .. What a crapy crap...

CONSERVATIVE53

07-06-2005, 07:53 PM

Just watched remake of the "On the beach" .. What a crapy crap...

The original was haunting though. Peck was always good.

mi35d

07-06-2005, 09:25 PM

"Omega Man" had nothing to do with Nuclear war. It was a bio war that mutated people into albinos who were extremely light sensitive. They hunted our boy, Charlton Heston. (All praise be his name.) He generally kicked ass.

It was part of his trilogy of apocalyptic movies. (Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, Omega Man.)

Ayura

07-06-2005, 09:37 PM

Bambi

mudbunny

07-06-2005, 10:39 PM

as a child of the 80's I remember seeing "the day after tomorrow" and being pretty freaked out by it because it tiold the story, not from a military viewpoint, but from a civilian in the heartland viewpoint. I've heard the movie"testament" is pretty freaky too.

callous

07-06-2005, 10:42 PM

Damnation Alley

George Peppard & Jan Michael Vincent Set forth in thier uber Winnebagos of doom. Looking for survivors of the apocalypse!

Maj. Eugene Denton: "Tanner! This entire city is infested with killer cockroaches. I repeat: KILLER COCKROACHES!"

http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/desktops/movies/damnationalley.jpg

mi35d

07-07-2005, 11:00 AM

That vehicle was used in about a dozen "end of the world" movies.

baboon6

07-07-2005, 04:30 PM

The War Game (1965) is the BBC miniseries you are probably looking for.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0059894/

Can't forget Damnation Alley

I watched The War Game about 18 months ago and it is truly frightening, brilliant piece of film. It is not a mini-series but a one-off documentary with the action parts acted out, mostly by amateurs, including those who would be involved, police,medics etc.