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Shin Godzilla(2016)

3.5/5 (with 462 votes)

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Godzilla(1954)

NR
| 1h 36min | Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 386 votes)

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Dr. No(1962)

PG
| 1h 50min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1,553 votes)

In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.

Goldfinger(1964)

PG
| 1h 50min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,540 votes)

Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

The Midnight Sky(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Science Fiction, Drama
2.9/5 (with 794 votes)

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Chernobyl Diaries(2012)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 722 votes)

A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

On the Beach(1959)

3.3/5 (with 83 votes)

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?

Hardware(1990)

3.0/5 (with 116 votes)

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

Nuclear Now(2023)

1h 45min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, Nuclear Now explores the possibility for the global community to overcome the challenges of climate change and energy poverty to reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy. Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines. The United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source. Yet in the mid-20th century as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in part by coal and oil interests.

Directed by Oliver Stone

Pu-239(2006)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.

Panic in Year Zero!(1962)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be first casualties.

Saltwater(2016)

1.9/5 (with 20 votes)

A group of lifeguards attempt to kill an atomic shark that is terrorizing the coast of San Diego.

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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes(2022)

1h 31min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of Chernobyl told through a newly discovered hoard of dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and deeply personal interviews of those who were there, directed by Emmy Award-winner and Russian-speaker James Jones.

A Hollow Tree(2023)

Years after nuclear war, survivors begin their journey to what they hope is sanctuary while being hunted by a strange other worldly creature capable of imitating humans.

Plymouth(1991)

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work. Their first big test comes in the form of a wave of radiation from a massive solar flare.

Directed by Lee David Zlotoff

Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents(2001)

NR
| 53min | Documentary, War, History
1.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.Now, recently declassified documents reveal the history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows". There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"? Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.

100 Years of the Atom(2020)

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importance that ushered in the nuclear age, has a dark side: the many events in which people were exposed to radiation, both intentionally and by accident.

One Night Stand(1984)

NR
| 1h 34min | Music, Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.

Directed by John Duigan - With Tyler Coppin, Saskia Post, Cassandra Delaney, David Pledger

The Third Planet(1991)

1h 39min | Science Fiction
2.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.

Nuclear Shelter(1981)

1h 26min | Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.

Directed by Roberto Pires

Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare(2009)

1h 25min | Documentary
4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The documentary presents the results of research on nuclear waste management in the U.S., Russia, Germany and France. The authors Eric Noualhat Guéret and Laure were accompanied by the independent French laboratory technicians radiation control, CRIIRAD. They have detected and measured radiation in many places like the U.S. Columbia River or the French plutonium factory called reprocessing plant at La Hague.

Directed by Éric Guéret

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later(2020)

1h 19min | Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.

Human Error(1988)

Jack Farley and his family are asked to attend an experiment about social behavior for a planned space station. Therefore they move into an underground dome for three months. But then it turns out that a secret military department replaced the NASA scientists and conducts an experiment on its own...

Zombie Prom(2006)

36min | Horror, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Zombie Prom is a 1950s horror comic book brought to life as a musical comedy film. It is a campy, rollicking, romp through America's "Atomic Age" and the "Golden Age" of horror comic books. Here's the story... Set in the fabulous '50s, this is the tale of a sweet teenage girl named, TOFFEE (a Gidget-type) and her "rebel without a cause" boyfriend, JONNY. The two meet at Enrico Fermi High School and fall in love, but the principal, MISS DELILAH STRICT (Stalin in pumps and a dress!) intervenes, persuading the indecisive young Toffee to break up with Jonny. Tortured by the betrayal, Jonny drives his motorcycle to the nearby Francis Gary Powers Nuclear Power Plant and flings himself into a nuclear cooling tower! But then he returns as a teenage nuclear zombie.

Directed by Vince Marcello

Half-Life in Fukushima(2016)

1h 1min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese farmer ekes out a solitary existence within the radiation red zone.

The First Secret City(2015)

1h 45min | Documentary

Before the creation of the secret cities of Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Hanford, the Manhattan Project hired the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis to refine the first uranium used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. For the next two decades, Mallinckrodt continued its classified work for the Atomic Energy Commission during the Cold War. The resulting radioactive waste contaminated numerous locations in the St. Louis area some of which have not been cleaned up 70 years after the end of World War II. Told through the eyes of an overexposed worker, the story expands through a series of interviews that careen down a toxic pathway leading to a fiery terminus at a smoldering, radioactively-contaminated landfill. The First Secret City reveals a forgotten history and its continuing impact on the community in the 21st Century, uncovering past wrongdoing and documenting the renewed struggles to confront the issue.

3.11: Surviving Japan(2013)

1h 30min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

True story of an American volunteer who discovered the unvarnished truth about the Fukushima nuclear disaster cover-up while living in Japan. A critical look at how the authorities handled the nuclear crisis and Tsunami relief by an American who volunteered in the clean-up.

Directed by Simon Hilton, Helen Caldicott - With Helen Caldicott

Blowing Up Paradise(2005)

1h 19min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Blowing Up Paradise uses color archival footage to chronicle France's explosion of various nuclear devices, in violation of the international test ban treaty, from the first test in 1966 to the last in 1995. Interviews with former and current French government officials, scientists, and nuclear advisors.

Inside Inoxia(2003)

1h 25min | Horror
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Two young male metalheads get locked and trapped inside a bombed out town and have to face the repercussions of a nuclear fallout and radiation poisoning while a supernatural horror begins to engulf their lives.

After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies(1983)

23min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This film deals straightforwardly with the consequences of a nuclear attack for the Canadian Prairies. The Prairies are singled out because of their proximity to huge stockpiles of intercontinental ballistic missiles located in North Dakota. Scenes include a visit to a missile base and to an emergency government bunker in Manitoba. A doctor, a farmer and a civil defence coordinator provide different perspectives on nuclear war. Although the film focuses on one region, it provides a model for people everywhere who would like to know more about their own situation but don't know what questions to ask.