![]() ![]() The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) – a drama about nuclear tests that throw the Earth off its course around the Sun, dooming it unless scientists can find a way to reverse the change, and a news team that covers the affair.The Day After (1983) – this made-for-television-movie by ABC depicts the consequences of a nuclear war in Lawrence, Kansas and the surrounding area.The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – an entire metropolitan city is taken hostage as masked mercenary takes hold of a fully armed neutron bomb.Damnation Alley (20th Century Fox, 1977) – a surprise attack launched on the United States, and the subsequent efforts of a small band of survivors in California to reach another group of survivors in Albany, New York.Crimson Tide (1995) – a suspenseful drama about a nuclear submarine, and the mutiny of its Executive Officer, regarding decisions on whether to launch a nuclear missile.Countdown to Looking Glass (HBO, 1984) – a film that presents a simulated news broadcast about a nuclear war.Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) – in this movie directed by George Clooney, the CIA approaches an actor who becomes an assassin that kills some of America's enemies.Chernobyl (miniseries) (HBO, Sky, 2019) – a five-part historical drama television miniseries, dramatizes the story of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.The Cloud (2006) – German drama film in which two teenagers try to survive after a nuclear accident.The plot suggests that corporate greed and cost-cutting "have led to potentially deadly faults in the plant's construction". Jane Fonda plays a TV reporter who witnesses fears over risk of a meltdown (the "China syndrome" of the title) at a local nuclear plant, which was averted by a quick-thinking engineer. The China Syndrome – this has been described as a "gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power", which had an extra impact when the real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant occurred several weeks after the film opened.It is based on the 1960 short story of the same name by James Clavell. The Children's Story (1982) – this short film, which originally aired on TV's Mobil Showcase, depicts the first day of indoctrination of an elementary school classroom by a new teacher, representing a totalitarian government that has taken over the United States.A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) – The Ghost of Christmas Future gives a tour across a desolate landscape of the ruins of a once-great civilization (Hiroshima).By Dawn's Early Light ( HBO, 1990) – about rogue Soviet military officials framing NATO for a nuclear attack in order to spark a full-blown nuclear war.government an ultimatum: either pay a huge ransom, or he will destroy a major U.S. Broken Arrow (1996) – a film about two friends in the United States Air Force, who become bitter enemies after one of them steals two nuclear weapons and gives the U.S.The Beginning or the End (1947) – a fictionalized docudrama about the Manhattan Project and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. ![]() destroyer finds a Soviet Submarine and a false alarm causes trouble for the crew on board the ship. The Bed Sitting Room (1969) – an absurdist, post-apocalyptic, satirical black comedy set in the ruins of London on a recent anniversary of the nuclear war. ![]() to place nuclear bombs in strategic locations, results in a U.S.
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