Nuclear War Movies

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...

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site—where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the summer of 1945—covering many other...

We've all heard of the atomic bomb, but in the late 1950s, an idea was conceived of a bomb which would maximize damage to people, but minimize damage...

Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of...

The story centres on one such nomadic tribe who it transpires are searching for new, uncontaminated females with whom to procreate. Big Lou is...

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from...

Documentary about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, including an interview with an eyewitness of the bomb drop on Hiroshima and scientific...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war...

This Cold War film "Information Within Public Shelters" (1953) takes place in a fallout shelter, showing how a well-trained staff that provides...

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...

A young girl is hospitalised and told she can serve the state by bearing children due to a demographic crisis caused by a prolonged war. A new law...

This programme recalls the events that led up to one of the most dangerous moments in the entire history of the Cold War: a NATO command post...

One comes to Earth after a few decades in space. But what if there is no Earth anymore? What if the only thing left of all the cities and countries...

Death has come to a small southern town. A biological weapon has been unleashed, driving residents insane before killing them. A small group of...

An instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to...

A Startling new music video! It will send you racing one footstep ahead of danger and Death! One Heartbeat away from your wildest dream of love! A...

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...

This film deals straightforwardly with the consequences of a nuclear attack for the Canadian Prairies. The Prairies are singled out because of their...

Anti-nuclear cartoon about a soldier at a nuclear test site. Among other things, the mutating effect of radiation is shown in a bizarre form.

Dramatization of a devastating nuclear strike against the United States by the Soviet Union, followed by interviews with analysts and military...