Highest-Rated Movies about 'Nuclear Weapons Testing', Sort by Popularity

War and Peace (2002), Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), Desert Bloom (1986), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Ground Zero (1987), The Hills Have Eyes (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nuclear Weapons Testing movies.

#2. Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)

Storyline: Captain Ashwat Raina's efforts to turn India into a nuclear state are at first met with criticism and then years later, with an offer from the government. With the help of Himanshu Shukla, the Prime Minister's principal secretary, he leads a team to conduct a second nuclear test series. The only major threat lurking is the American Lacrosse satellite which caught the first test preparations, further causing America to warn India about such future tests. With their patriotic hearts and unbreakable spirits, Ashwat and his team race against time to conduct the tests confidentially while the country's worsening political scenario as well as the presence of spies from US and Pakistan puts them into both mental as well as physical challenges.—Prashast Singh

Plot Keywords: indian, indian agent, soldier, governor, american, pakistani, suspenseful ...

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#4. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Storyline: As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: professor, researcher, doctor, scientist, corporal, colonel, campy ...

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#5. Desert Bloom (1986)

Storyline: The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic stepfather. Her memories of Robin, her first love, are much happier, and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr, whose visit is fun, but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Nevada bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.—Melissa Portell <mportell@s-cwis.unomaha.edu>

Plot Keywords: teen girl, stepfather, mother, aunt, teen boy, friend, moving ...

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#6. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

Storyline: In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. General Leslie Groves was in overall command of it. This film reenacts the project with an emphasis on their relationship.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: general, scientist, wife, mistress, emotional, tense, new mexico ...

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#7. Ground Zero (1987)

Storyline: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: photographer, scientist, aborigine, hermit, chilling, intricate, somber ...

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#9. The Manhattan Project (1986)

Storyline: Paul Stephens, a high school student in Ithaca, New York, is generally unmotivated academically despite being a science geek, his interest, as per his age, mostly in those science items that have a wow factor. It is his interest in science that connects him to Dr. John Mathewson, a scientist recently having relocated to Ithaca and who is interested romantically in Paul's soon to be divorced mother, Elizabeth Stephens. It is in that want to impress Elizabeth through Paul that John invites Paul to Medatomics, a medical research facility, so that he can demonstrate some of those "wow" type experiments on which he and his colleagues are working. While impressed enough, Paul is nonetheless more interested in something else in the facility that John only makes passing reference to when asked, that "green goo" which in combination with other things Paul discovers around the facility making him believe that the facility really a secret government nuclear one, the green goo radioactive material for atomic bombs. Paul and his classmate/girlfriend Jenny Anderman, an aspiring journalist, want to expose Medatomics for what they believe it to be as there was no community notification about operating a potentially dangerous nuclear facility there. While Jenny wants to go the traditional route in writing an exposé, Paul believes there is only one effective way to get their message across to the world while making them both famous. The further Paul, with Jenny's help, gets to enacting his plan to its intended end, the more he may place their lives and that of the community in danger, especially if the authorities discover what he is doing.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: teen boy, girlfriend, scientist, single mother, government official, thrilling, brash ...

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#11. Dark Circle (1982)

Storyline: Documentarians uncover unsafe conditions and disturbingly high plutonium levels that may explain the mysterious health problems experienced by employees of and local residents near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility in Colorado. Locals share harrowing stories of cancer, birth defects and damage to crops and livestock. They struggle to be heard in the face of a pro-industry group that sees any criticism of the plant -- which has injected the economy with much-needed jobs -- as un-American.

Plot Keywords: farmer, mother, documentarian, factory worker, activist, veteran, disturbing ...

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