Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

A Compassionate Spy

2022

English

6.6

♡ 1

81%

Steve James Director

Joseph Stalin as Self

Ruth London as Self

Boria Sax as Self

Marcia Kunstel as Self

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.

Fail Safe

1964

English

8.1

♡ 39

93%

Sidney Lumet Director

Edward Binns as Colonel Grady

Sorrell Booke as Congressman Raskob

Dana Elcar as Foster

Frank Overton as General Bogan

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

The Half-Life of Genius Physicist Raemer Schreiber

2017

English

7.0

♡ 4

Jared Brandon-Flande Director

Sara Schreiber as Herself

Taylor Wilson as Himself

J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self

Edward Teller as Self

Our two-hour film highlights the life and career of Dr. Schreiber with respect and clarity. Raemer, his wife Marge, and young daughter Paula would move to the high-desert of New Mexico where he and other brilliant minds would change the world forever.

The Atomic Cafe

1982

English

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.

Seven Days to Noon

1950

English

7.0

♡ 7

100%

John Boulting Director

Geoffrey Keen as Alf

Geoffrey Matthews as Bit Part

Colin Douglas as Soldier in house search

Sam Kydd as Soldier in House Search

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.

Panic in Year Zero!

1962

English

6.6

♡ 10

70%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

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.

Hiroshima

1953

Japanese

7.5

♡ 12

Hideo Sekigawa Director

Masao Mishima as

Masao Oda as

Isuzu Yamada as

Eiji Okada as Kitagawa

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.

Bombshell

2016

English

5.8

♡ 4

95%

Riccardo Pellizzeri Director

Mark Mitchinson as Allen Galbraith

Craig Walsh-Wrightson as Charles Hernu

Ande Cunningham as Fernando Pereira

Anna Jullienne as Frederique

How the tragic death of one man triggered a David and Goliath battle between two Allies that echoed around the world and became the catalyst to end nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Spy Hard

1996

English

5.3

♡ 51

7%

Rick Friedberg Director

Brian Howe as Clubhouse Bartender

Tina Arning as Dancer #1

Leslie Nielsen as Dick Steele 'Agent WD-40'

Henry Kingi Jr. as Guard

The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with Veronique Ukrinsky, a KGB agent whose father designed the chip. Together they try to locate the evil mastermind's headquarters, where Veronique's father and several other hostages are being held.

Scorcher

2002

English

3.6

♡ 7

3%

James Seale Director

Sam Lloyd as Fingers

G.W. Bailey as General Timothy Moore

Ivonne Coll as Mayor Salizar

Mark Dacascos as Ryan Beckett

The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.

Iron Eagle II

1988

English

3.9

♡ 12

29%

Sidney J. Furie Director

Maury Chaykin as Downs

Stuart Margolin as Stillmore

Alan Scarfe as Vardovsky

Colm Feore as Yuri

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

2015

English

6.9

♡ 6

Mark Cousins Director

Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.

A Doctor's Sword

2015

English

8.0

♡ 2

raf (royal air force)

War

world war ii

Gary Lennon Director

Nicola MacCarthy as Self - Aidan's Daughter

Adrienne McCarthy as Self - Aidan's Daughter

Aidan MacCarthy as Self - Narrator

An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the lives he saved. 70 years later his family searches for the origin of their father's sword.

Empire of the Sun

1987

English

7.7

♡ 110

77%

90%

Action

atomic bomb

based on novel or book

Steven Spielberg Director

John Malkovich as Basie

Ben Stiller as Dainty

Nigel Havers as Dr. Rawlins

Christian Bale as Jim

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

2015

Japanese

6.4

♡ 4

71%

Yôji Yamada Director

Kazunari Ninomiya as Koji Fukuhara

Tadanobu Asano as Kuroda

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Nobuko Fukuhara

Yuriko Hirooka as Tomie

Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.

Fat Man and Little Boy

1989

English

6.5

♡ 18

50%

Roland Joffé Director

Jim True-Frost as Donald Hornig

Mary Pat Gleason as Dora Welsh

Paul Newman as General Leslie R. Groves

John Williams as Mack Stoddard

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

Hiroshima Mon Amour

1959

French

7.8

♡ 20

96%

Alain Resnais Director

Moira Lister as (Dubbed Emmanuelle Riva) (uncredited)

Emmanuelle Riva as Elle

Bernard Fresson as German Lover

Eiji Okada as Lui

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

Them!

1954

English

7.2

♡ 22

93%

Gordon Douglas Director

Ann Doran as Child Psychiatrist

Sean McClory as Maj. Kibbee

Booth Colman as Reporter

Sheb Wooley as Sgt. Ben Peterson's Scream / Screaming Sailor / Screaming Soldier

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.

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