The War Game (1966), When the Wind Blows (1986), The Day After (1983), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Fail-Safe (1964), Seven Days in May (1964), The Man Who Saved the World (2014), By Dawn's Early Light (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nuclear War movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Peter Watkins envisions the physical devastation and struggle for survival following a nuclear attack on Great Britain.
Plot Keywords: war, nuclear war, documentary, mockumentary, british, cold war, anti-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this hand-drawn animated tale, elderly married couple Hilda (Peggy Ashcroft) and Jim Bloggs (John Mills) have their quiet, simple lives in the English countryside interrupted when they learn of an impending nuclear attack. Not completely understanding the gravity of their situation, Hilda and Jim react archaically and insufficiently after the attack -- and the film takes a dark turn as the radiation begins taking its toll on the unsuspecting couple.
Plot Keywords: animation, nuclear war, british, disaster, cold war, survival, anti-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A doctor (Jason Robards) cares for survivors roaming scorched Kansas in the aftermath of a Russian nuclear attack, while others face hopelessness for the future.
Plot Keywords: nuclear war, cold war, apocalypse, disaster, soviet union, survival, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all ...
Plot Keywords: black comedy, cold war, nuclear war, political satire, military, absurd, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American 'Vindicator' bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.
Plot Keywords: cold war, nuclear war, military, political thriller, crisis, soviet union, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unpopular U.S. President manages to get a nuclear disarmament treaty through the Senate, but finds that the nation is turning against him. Jiggs Casey, a Marine Colonel, finds evidence that General Scott, the wildly popular head of the Joint Chiefs and certain Presidential Candidate in 2 years is not planning to wait. Casey goes to the president with the information and a web of intrigue begins with each side unsure of who can be trusted.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, cold war, u.s. government, conspiracy, national security, president, nuclear war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Few people know of him - yet billions of people are alive because of him. The actions of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer, prevented the start of a unsurvivable worldwide nuclear war and the devastation of the entire Earth.—dncorp01
Plot Keywords: documentary, cold war, nuclear war, history, true story, soviet union, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president (Martin Landau) feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
Plot Keywords: war, nuclear war, cold war, military, strategy, crisis, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When some Russian rebels takes control of some ICBM's, the Americans mobilize. Among the vessels sent is the nuclear sub, the Alabama. But before they leave they need a new X.O. and among the choices is Commander Hunter, who hasn't seen much action. But the ship's Captain, Ramsey OK's him. While on the way, there was an incident and Hunter disagreed with how Ramsey handled it, it's evident that Ramsey doesn't think much of Hunter because Hunter was college educated while Ramsey worked his way up. They're given orders to attack but when they were in the process of receiving another order, the ship's communications were damaged, so the entire message was not received. Ramsey decides to continue with their previous order while Hunter wants to reestablish contact first. That's when the two men butt heads that ends with Hunter relieving Ramsey. Later when some men die, some of the officers feel that Hunter is not up to the task so they team up to retake control. But Hunter has taken ...
Plot Keywords: war, submarine, military, nuclear war, cold war, commanding officer, crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: nuclear war, apocalypse, survivors, australia, submarine, cold war, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, war, hacker, cold war, artificial intelligence, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, romance, apocalyptic, science fiction, disaster, mystery, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary about how the likelihood of nuclear weapons (or fissile materials) usage has increased due to the rise of terrorism and lack of safeguards and verification.
Plot Keywords: documentary, nuclear weapons, cold war, politics, history, war, terrorism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
Plot Keywords: nuclear war, post-apocalyptic, family drama, survival, tragedy, emotional impact, societal collapse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.—Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: political thriller, cold war, nuclear threat, president, betrayal, american politics, nuclear war ...
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