Nuclear War Movies

A documentary film about the effects of nuclear weapons. What would be the effects on people and buildings if one medium-sized nuclear bomb was...

1966, United States of America: Kennedy is unable to prevent the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962, creating a nuclear winter throughout the country that...

Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to...

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

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...

The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent...

Two young women journey from the outskirts of the city to a radioactive area deep in the woods. Along the way they encounter a young drifter. As they...

Facing the threat of a nuclear war, a young Ukrainian woman is forced to decide between safety and bodily autonomy.

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...

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...

An instructional film released by the UK Warning and Monitoring Organization which depicts its operations in the lead-up to and aftermath of a...

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...

A cautionary tale. When nuclear war becomes imminent, two estranged former lovers reunite and find one final moment of peace in the last light of the...

The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated...

A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

An orphaned cat adrift at sea is raised by an otter to live in the ocean. They live together in peace until one day they encounter a submarine.

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...

Explores a ticking-clock scenario about what would happen in the event of a nuclear war, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military...

This film deals straightforwardly with the consequences of a nuclear attack for the Canadian Prairies due to their proximity to intercontinental...

Follow the 4315th Training Squadron of the Strategic Air Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where officers are trained to man the...