Nuclear War Movies

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was...

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...

Peter Ustinov hosts this haunting 1980 documentary exploring the world's nuclear weaponry and the fragile system that deters either side from...

A documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.

A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

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...

Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of...

Two young women journey from the outskirts of the city to a radioactive area deep in the woods. Along the way they encounter a young drifter. As they...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

A series of escalating incidents around the world lead to greater and greater conflict, placing the superpowers at one another's throats. Armies...

Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work is done by androids, referred to derisively by...

Dramatization of a devastating nuclear strike against the United States by the Soviet Union, followed by interviews with analysts and military...

A cautionary tale. When nuclear war becomes imminent, two estranged former lovers reunite and find one final moment of peace in the last light of the...

1966, United States of America: Kennedy is unable to prevent the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962, creating a nuclear winter throughout the country that...

A documentary film about the effects of nuclear weapons. What would be the effects on people and buildings if one medium-sized nuclear bomb was...

When Peter Watkins’ banned nuclear war masterpiece "The War Game" reached Toronto in 1967, it found an unlikely home at Cinecity, a new cinema...

An instructional film released by the UK Warning and Monitoring Organization which depicts its operations in the lead-up to and aftermath of a...

After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their...

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.

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...