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The Bedford Incident (1965) – a U.S. destroyer finds a Soviet Submarine and a false alarm causes trouble for the crew on board the ship. The Beginning or the End (1947) – a fictionalized docudrama about the Manhattan Project and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
1 day ago · The best nuclear war movies not only visualize the devastating aftermath of such catastrophic events but also delve into the psychological, political, and emotional consequences faced by characters in these harrowing scenarios.
- Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Director: Stanley Kubrick. In the process of adapting Peter George’s novel Red Alert for the screen, Stanley Kubrick found the inherent absurdities of mutual assured destruction (MAD) – a military doctrine engendering peace between east and west through mutual threat of nuclear obliteration – leading him away from the straight thriller material of the source to what ultimately became a “nightmare comedy”.
- Seven Days in May (1964) Director: John Frankenheimer. In the 1960s, few filmmakers married contemporary concerns with action and thriller elements as well as John Frankenheimer.
- Fail Safe (1964) Director: Sidney Lumet. Released just months after Dr. Strangelove, Fail Safe has an almost identical premise – only where Kubrick’s film is a farce which laughs at humanity’s appetite for self-destruction, Sidney Lumet’s drama despairs.
- The War Game (1966) Director: Peter Watkins. While there was little comforting in Hollywood’s depiction of nuclear sabre-rattling in the period immediately following the Cuban missile crisis, Peter Watkins’ BBC film The War Game proved so unpalatably honest it would be banned from airing on British television for 20 years.
20 Of The Best Nuclear War Films. by will-finney • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago. Films that show the build up and/or detonation and/or aftermath of nuclear war or nuclear bomb attack. Films in no particular order.
Jul 21, 2023 · Take a look at the ten best movies about nuclear war below, including classic films from the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Lynne Littman, Shôhei Imamura and Christopher Nolan.
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Jul 13, 2023 · From art films to blockbusters, documentaries to fiction, the development of nuclear technology has inspired all sorts of new narratives and approaches to storytelling. This list showcases 10 films that provide very different perspectives on the age that Oppenheimer unleashed.
