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Watchmen(2009)

R
| 2h 43min | Action, Mystery, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 4,120 votes)

In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

Directed by Zack Snyder - With Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Åkerman, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, ...
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The Day After(1983)

2h 7min | Science Fiction, Drama, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 161 votes)

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

Directed by Nicholas Meyer - With Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan, ...

La Jetée(1962)

NR
| 28min | Romance / Love, Science Fiction
4.0/5 (with 370 votes)

A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.

Directed by Chris Marker - With Jacques Ledoux, Hélène Châtelain, Jean Négroni, Ligia Branice
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Z for Zachariah(2015)

PG-13
| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love, Science Fiction
2.8/5 (with 437 votes)

In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.

Directed by Craig Zobel - With Margot Robbie, Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Miracle Mile(1988)

R
| 1h 27min | Romance / Love, Drama, Science Fiction
3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

Directed by Steve De Jarnatt - With Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Denise Crosby, Mykelti Williamson, John Agar, Kurt Fuller, ...
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On the Beach(1959)

2h 14min | Science Fiction, Drama, Romance / Love
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?

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, John Tate, John Meillon, ...

When the Wind Blows(1986)

1h 21min | Animation, War, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 109 votes)

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.

Directed by Jimmy Murakami

Testament(1983)

PG
| 1h 30min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 49 votes)

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

Directed by Lynne Littman - With Jane Alexander, William Devane, Ross Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas, Leon Ames, ...
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The Man Who Saved the World(2014)

2h | Documentary, History, War
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.

Directed by Peter Anthony - With Stanislav Petrov, Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Matt Damon, Walter Cronkite, Robert De Niro, ...
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil(1959)

1h 35min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.

Directed by Ranald MacDougall - With Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer, Harry Belafonte
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Day the World Ended(1955)

1h 19min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 25 votes)

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors, Raymond Hatton, Jonathan Haze, ...

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu(1980)

PG
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Horror
2.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

Directed by Peter Sellers, Richard Quine - With Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar, John Le Mesurier, John Sharp, ...
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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.

Directed by Ray Milland - With Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Joan Freeman, Willis Bouchey, Richard Bakalyan, ...

Ladybug Ladybug(1963)

1h 22min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.

Directed by Frank Perry - With Jane Connell, William Daniels, Nancy Marchand, Estelle Parsons, Alice Playten

Doomsday Machine(1972)

1h 23min | Science Fiction
1.6/5 (with 10 votes)

Spies discover that the Red Chinese have built a "doomsday machine" capable of destroying the surface of the Earth, and that they plan to use it within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Project Astra, a manned U.S. space mission to Venus, is in its final hours before launch when it is taken over by the military and nearly half of its all-male crew is replaced by women. The reason for this becomes apparent when, shortly after Astra leaves orbit, the Earth is completely destroyed in a global cataclysm! Is the human race doomed? What dangers and wonders await the crew of the Astra on their journey to Venus?

Directed by Herbert J. Leder - With Denny Miller, Ruta Lee, Grant Williams, Mala Powers, Henry Wilcoxon, Bobby Van, ...
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The Creation of the Humanoids(1962)

1h 15min | Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by androids, referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". A police official who is concerned that his sister has become involved with an android is sent to investigate a larger rumor that the androids are developing reason and emotion.

Directed by Wesley Barry - With Don Megowan, William Hunter, Paul Sheriff

Warriors of the Apocalypse(1985)

1h 35min | Science Fiction, Action
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their way they meet pygmy tribes, brutal gangs and amazon women.

Directed by Bobby A. Suarez

X-Men: First Class(2011)

PG-13
| 2h 12min | Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 6,036 votes)

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

Directed by Matthew Vaughn - With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, ...
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World War Four(2019)

1h 30min | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, War
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A series of escalating incidents around the world lead to greater and greater conflict, placing the superpowers at one another's throats. Armies march, bombs rain down, soldiers storm the beaches. One family is caught up in the ever-growing conflict. Can they survive as total war is declared and nuclear weapons are unleashed?

Countdown to Looking Glass(1984)

1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.

Directed by Fred Barzyk - With Scott Glenn

Edge of Extinction(2020)

2h 16min | Science Fiction, Horror, Action, Drama
2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying away from others has been key to his survival. But this self-imposed isolation comes to an abrupt end when he crosses paths with another group of survivors and faces an enemy far more savage than any of them could imagine.

Duck and Cover(1952)

9min | Animation, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.

Directed by Anthony Rizzo

Cocolors(2017)

46min | Animation, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Aki isn’t a brave little boy, but he’s dedicated nonetheless to safeguarding his sickly, mute friend Fuyu. They and their little gang live deep underground, in the concrete warrens to which survivors have fled following the eruption of Mt. Fuji. The community is in decline, however, as illness and despair take their toll. Fuyu dreams of the outside world, which he is too frail to ever reach. But what colour is the sky out there?

Directed by Toshihisa Yokoshima

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.

The Stray(2016)

1h 30min | Thriller, Horror

1966, United States of America: Kennedy is unable to prevent the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962, creating a nuclear winter throughout the country that seems to have no end. Our nations structure collapses, our nations defenses fall and our nations people suffer from severe radiation poisoning, mutating them into ghoulish, flesh eating monsters. Tracey Arnold, the man with no direction, struggling to accept his actions and live with himself, travels through this barren wasteland at a constant battle with his humanity, and the Stray that refuses to let him forget.

BAB(2020)

1h 45min | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

In a dying 1950s town, a mysterious traveler propositions a young farmhand, Donnie, to help take down the town's tyrannical leader in exchange for the release of Donnie's mother from a primitive mind-rehabilitation center.

Ghosts of Hiroshima(2022)

1h 19min | Horror
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

77 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a malevolent force lingers at the site of nuclear calamity. Those who encounter this vengeful spirit are forever consumed by its wrath.

Black Garden(2020)

1h 30min | Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Set on Christmas Eve, eight days after the war ends, survivor Kate discovers a mysterious radio signal and befriends the voice. As she embarks on a journey to find its origins, Kate encounters the isolation and horror of a nuclear war and the failed hope of those who survived.

Desert Warrior(1989)

1h 29min | Action, Science Fiction
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

The story centres on one such nomadic tribe who it transpires are searching for new, uncontaminated females with whom to procreate. Big Lou is apparently second in command in this group and in addition to leading search parties for females his role also involves standing as the leaders champion during combative arena matches.

Directed by John Gale - With Lou Ferrigno, Mike Monty

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
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