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7.6

♡ 14

93%

Jayne Loader Director

Nikita Khrushchev as Himself

Ronald Reagan as Himself

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself

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.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil

1959

6.8

♡ 5

59%

Romance

Ranald MacDougall Director

Mel Ferrer as Benson Thacker

Harry Belafonte as Ralph Burton

Inger Stevens as Sarah Crandall

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.

Panic in Year Zero!

1962

6.6

♡ 10

70%

Thriller

Ray Milland Director

Byron Morrow as Evacuee from Newhall

Ray Milland as Harry Baldwin

Rex Holman as Mickey

Frankie Avalon as Rick Baldwin

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.

World War Four

2019

3.0

♡ 4

A.K. Strom Director

Kelvin Taylor as Dave Bradley

Graham Vincent as Lt Caleb Jones

Campbell Rousselle as Michael Fyfe

Morgan Bradley as Sue Jones

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?

On the Beach

1959

7.1

♡ 17

78%

69%

san francisco, california

australia

based on novel or book

submarine

Stanley Kramer Director

Gregory Peck as Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS Sawfish

Anthony Perkins as Lt. Peter Holmes - Royal Australian Navy

Ava Gardner as Moira Davidson

John Meillon as Ralph Swain

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?

When the Wind Blows

1986

husband wife relationship

7.7

♡ 25

88%

nuclear war

War

world war ii

Jimmy T. Murakami Director

Peggy Ashcroft as Hilda Bloggs

Harry S. Truman as Himself

Joseph Stalin as Himself

John Mills as Jim

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.

BAB

2020

5.6

♡ 3

Joe DeBoer Director

Sarah Dumont as Bab

Robert Miano as Bascum

David Willis as Emmett

Maite Garcia as The Limbless Woman

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.

Edge of Extinction

2020

5.0

♡ 22

31%

survivalist

Thriller

Andrew Gilbert Director

Francesca Louise White as News Reader

Richard Summers-Calvert as Pack Leader

Nicholas Anscombe as The Vigilante

Oscar Kempster as Young Boy

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.

Ghosts of Hiroshima

2022

4.5

♡ 6

Brandon Walker Director

Robert Palmer Watkins as Eric

Tony Gibbons as Journalist

Akihiro Kitamura as Mr. Yamahura

Ashley Park as Nori

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.

The War Game

1966

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

7.9

♡ 18

93%

pre-code

War

Peter Watkins Director

Michael Aspel as Commentator

Peter Graham as Commentator

Peter Watkins as Documentist

Dave Baldwin as Schoolmaster / Interviewer

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.

X-Men: First Class

2011

7.7

♡ 363

86%

87%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Adventure

Matthew Vaughn Director

Nicholas Hoult as Hank / Beast

Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert

Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw

James Faulkner as Swiss Bank Manager

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.

Friend of the World

2020

4.6

♡ 3

91%

Brian Patrick Butler Director

Rickey Phatsenhann as Civilian

Brian Patrick Butler as Gofer 1

Daniel N. Butler as Gofer 2

Nick Young as Gore

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.

Ladybug Ladybug

1963

based on magazine, newspaper or article

7.1

♡ 2

Frank Perry Director

Alice Playten as Harriet

William Daniels as Mr. John Calkins - the School Principal

Nancy Marchand as Mrs. Andrews

James Frawley as Truck Driver

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.

Cocolors

2017

Japanese

6.2

♡ 9

Toshihisa Yokoshima Director

Sawako Hata as Fuyu

Masaki Terasoma as Gidoku

Ruito Koga as Yakin

Yoshiko Kamei as Yakin

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?

The Creation of the Humanoids

1962

5.7

♡ 3

43%

Wesley Barry Director

Pat Bradley as Dr. Moffitt

Dudley Manlove as Lagan

Richard Vath as Mark

Erica Elliott as Maxine Megan

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.

The Sacrifice

1986

Swedish

7.9

♡ 61

88%

90%

Drama

father son relationship

Andrei Tarkovsky Director

Susan Fleetwood as Adelaide

Valérie Mairesse as Julia

Allan Edwall as Otto

Sven Wollter as Victor

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Day the World Ended

1955

5.4

♡ 9

41%

radiation

Roger Corman Director

Paul Birch as Jim Maddison

Raymond Hatton as Pete

Paul Dubov as Radek

Adele Jergens as Ruby

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.

Watchmen: Chapter I

2024

7.1

♡ 72