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76
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89
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The War Game (1966)
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
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Kanopy
85
7.9
/34304/
77
/599/
76
/583/
4.3
/84518/
88
/43/
90
/293/
85
/21/

The Sacrifice (1986)
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
8.2
/39342/
79
/1176/
78
/957/
4.3
/137138/
90
/29/
93
/732/

La Jetée (1962)
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.7
/14306/
75
/532/
73
/310/
4.0
/27144/
88
/8/
88
/184/

When the Wind Blows (1986)
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.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.6
/4778/
76
/159/
73
/71/
3.8
/5310/
93
/27/
85
/159/

The Atomic Cafe (1982)
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
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Kanopy
75
6.9
/7737/
66
/201/
63
/131/
3.6
/4764/
89
/46/
75
/105/
71
/19/

Testament (1983)
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.
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MGM Plus
74
7.0
/14247/
68
/647/
68
/299/
3.8
/36933/
91
/32/
73
/213/
74
/12/

Miracle Mile (1989)
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!
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Disney Plus
74
7.7
/756840/
76
/27502/
72
/13243/
3.6
/781299/
86
/295/
87
/18314/
65
/38/
cc age 12+

X-Men: First Class (2011)
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.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
73
7.1
/4186/
72
/830/
73
/147/
3.5
/11500/
92
/12/
76
/35/

Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)
Suspicious of the events ensnaring their former colleagues, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are spurred out of retirement to investigate. As they grapple with personal ethics, inner demons and a society turned against them, they race the clock to uncover a deepening plot that might trigger global nuclear war.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
73
7.1
/7900/
72
/1184/
74
/202/
3.5
/19406/
92
/12/
76
/35/
71
/5/
cc age 16+

Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
7.6
/605732/
76
/23848/
73
/9670/
3.7
/537805/
64
/304/
71
/47708/
56
/39/
cc age 18+

Watchmen (2009)
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 they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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71
7.0
/19929/
71
/894/
68
/421/
3.4
/10435/
86
/14/
69
/475/

The Day After (1983)
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.
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77
68
7.4
/6815/
73
/129/
69
/84/
3.5
/1612/
100
/5/
78
/70/

Fail Safe (2000)
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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68
66
7.1
/15523/
70
/340/
66
/223/
3.5
/7011/
78
/23/
69
/260/
55
/10/

On the Beach (1959)
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?
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Amazon Prime Video
61
6.0
/34239/
61
/2184/
56
/969/
2.9
/16684/
80
/95/
44
/284/
68
/28/
cc age 14+

Z for Zachariah (2015)
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.
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60
6.6
/5497/
66
/183/
62
/96/
3.2
/3888/
70
/10/
63
/76/

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin 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 the first casualties.
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72
55
7.2
/2044/
71
/60/
71
/61/
3.9
/3109/
72
/88/

The Big Snit (1985)
A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.
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67
49
6.8
/3890/
67
/100/
63
/74/
3.5
/3407/
71
/14/

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
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.
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The Roku Channel
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47
7.5
/2735/
72
/121/
67
/54/
3.5
/807/
68
/19/
63
/12/
55
/6/

The Man Who Saved the World (2014)
The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
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Hoopla
41
4.9
/2528/
57
/46/
48
/36/
2.7
/647/
15
/13/
43
/35/

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
51
38
5.4
/2923/
57
/64/
49
/69/
2.8
/1731/
41
/527/

Day the World Ended (1955)
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.
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6.3
/1837/
61
/35/
66
/37/
3.3
/960/
73
/11/
57
/9/

Five (1951)
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 hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.
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59
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6.0
/1174/
58
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60
/36/
3.0
/1407/

Duck and Cover (1952)
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.
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AMC
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29
5.7
/1707/
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/58/
63
/28/
3.1
/954/
43
/17/

The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
27
7.1
/1092/
66
/23/
67
/30/
3.6
/1016/
86
/5/

Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
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 nuclear attack.
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64
22
6.2
/183/
66
/21/
59
/12/
3.5
/386/
6.6
/2506/

Cocolors (2017)
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?
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60
21
4.6
/136/
40
/10/
40
/11/
3.0
/294/
91
/23/
88
/3/

Friend of the World (2020)
After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.
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65
16
6.9
/819/
64
/25/
59
/15/
3.4
/404/

Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
28
12
2.6
/1531/
36
/28/
31
/29/
2.3
/600/
5
/198/

Doomsday Machine (1972)
Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.
poster
63
11
6.3
/125/
60
/11/
64
/7/
3.4
/662/

Nuclear Shelter (1981)
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.
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33
9
3.6
/237/
35
/12/
38
/8/
25
/796/

Desert Warrior (1989)
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.
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?
80
/1/

Exposure (2025)
Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to make pictures.
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?
100
/1/

Sanctuary Hills (2018)
Sanctuary Hills is a 24-minute animated machinima drama created using Fallout 4 and Blender. Set during the final hours of the Sino-American War, the film follows the Washingtons, the only Black family in a gated community, who are denied access to the nuclear vault they paid for due to government-enforced racial discrimination. As the bombs fall, they are left to die—only to survive through a horrific mutation caused by radiation. Transformed and enraged, the Washingtons return to claim vengeance on the community that betrayed them.
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?
10
/1/

20 Minutes to Go (1990)
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 music video that will take your imagination by storm! It will plunge you into the dwelling place of the damned, then thrust you into a dimension beautiful beyond description!
poster
?
4.8
/20/
20
/1/

The Shelter (2005)
Death has come to a small southern town. A biological weapon has been unleashed, driving residents insane before killing them. A small group of soldiers and civilians take refuge in a bunker for chemical warfare. Their sanctuary may turn into their tomb. Water is low and one of them will do what ever it takes to stay alive. When the end of the world comes are you safe in ... The Shelter
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?
10
/1/

11 Steps to Survival (1973)
A film demonstrating steps to take in the event of a nuclear attack. Animated drawings show the effects of atomic explosions in the air and at ground level. How wide an area is affected by light and heat flash, radiation and radioactive fall-out are clearly illustrated. How to build or improvise a fall-out shelter, what to stock in it, when to take shelter and how long to stay there are similarly explained. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for Emergency Planning Canada.
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?
4.2
/14/
10
/1/
45
/2/

Nuclearvision (1982)
The dilemmas of a journalist when he accepts a contract to make a Civil Defence film for showing on TV in the event of nuclear war.
poster
?
70
/1/

The Return (2023)
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 are smouldering remains and radiating dust in the air?
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60
?
6.6
/12/
50
/1/
6.0
/200/

Sea Cat (1988)
A short animated film about an orphan kitten raised with love by a sea otter, whom had lost her own child. The film's message was to promote the abolishment of nuclear weapons using anthropomorphic animals.
poster
?
5.8
/63/
45
/4/
100
/1/

The Neutron Bomb (2022)
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 to buildings and vital infrastructure: perfect for an occupying army. This is the story of a man and his bomb: a melding of world events and scientific discovery inspire the neutron bomb, one of the most hated nuclear weapons ever invented.
poster
?
7.1
/21/
30
/2/
60
/1/

After the Big One: Nuclear War on the Prairies (1982)
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.
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JustWatchTV
?
5.5
/43/
85
/2/

The Stray (2016)
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.
poster
?
6.6
/53/
60
/4/

First Strike (1979)
Dramatization of a devastating nuclear strike against the United States by the Soviet Union, followed by interviews with analysts and military figures. Produced by the United States Air Force.
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The Roku Channel
50
?
4.5
/215/
54
/10/
45
/6/
2.9
/286/

Ghosts of Hiroshima (2022)
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.
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?
100
/1/

Atomic Pilgrimage: Ghost Towns, Nuclear Relics, and Lost Civilizations on the Road to the Trinity Site (2019)
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 atomic destinations and driving deep into the natural and social history of the American southwest.
poster
?
7.0
/31/
80
/2/
70
/1/

The Man Who Saved the World (2012)
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 and total destruction.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
?
5.7
/141/
46
/8/
68
/5/

BAB (2020)
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.
poster
63
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6.7
/117/
67
/8/
50
/9/
3.6
/285/

Wind (1988)
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.


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