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The Atomic Cafe is a 1982 American documentary film directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty. [2] [3] [4] It is a compilation of clips from newsreels, military training films, and other footage produced in the United States early in the Cold War on the subject of nuclear warfare. Without any narration, the footage is edited ...
Under Siege (1992) – movie about arms dealers who take over a U.S. Navy battleship, and attempt to sell the ship's nuclear-tipped Tomahawk Cruise Missiles on the black market; Vikram (1986) – Indian action adventure film by Rajasekhar about a Research and Analysis Wing agent who has to retrieve AgniPutra, a stolen nuclear-capable Indian ICBM.
Rafferty teamed up with his brother Pierce and Jayne Loader [5] to produce the cult classic documentary film The Atomic Cafe. [6] He was the director, producer, editor and cinematographer of many documentary projects, including Blood in the Face, The War Room, Feed, and The Last Cigarette. [4] [7] His last project was 2009's Harvard Beats Yale ...
She co-directed The Atomic Cafe (1982) [1] with Pierce Rafferty and Kevin Rafferty [2] [3] [4] and has guested on many television shows, [5] including Late Night With David Letterman. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She is the author of Between Pictures (1986, ISBN 0-312-91345-1 ), a novel, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Wild America (1989, ISBN 0-8021-1106-8 ), a collection ...
The film was first broadcast March 20, 1983 on NBC as part of NBC Sunday Night at the Movies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the film, a terrorist group brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in order to blackmail the U.S. government into disabling its nuclear weapons, and the incident is caught live on ...
Documentary films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (14 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The cafe opened in 1946, during the post-war Atomic Age marked with a pop culture obsession with all things atomic. [1] It was owned and operated by the Matoba family and founded by Ito and Minoru Matoba. [2] The cafe was notable as a popular gathering place for adherents of punk rock in Los Angeles from 1977 forward. [3]
It was released on August 6, 2007, on HBO, marking the 62nd anniversary of the first atomic bombing. The film features interviews with fourteen Japanese survivors and four Americans involved in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.