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The Peacemaker (1997) – a U.S. Army colonel and a civilian nuclear expert supervising him must track down a stolen Russian nuclear weapon before it is used by terrorists. Planet of the Apes (1968) – this, and two of its sequels depict Earth after being destroyed in a nuclear war, while two middle sequels depict Earth before such a war.
The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. [8] It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
An estimated 100 million people watched Nicholas Meyer's apocalyptic TV movie when it premiered in 1983. How 'The Day After' terrified Americans 40 years ago: 'Nuclear war on a good day' Skip to ...
On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, [2] it is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same title depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [3]
When Fail Safe opened in October 1964, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box-office performance was poor. Its failure rested with the similarity between it and the nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove, which had appeared in theaters first, in January 1964.
When the Lumiere brothers held the first commercial cinema screening in Paris almost 130 years ago, few could have imagined what an all-consuming monster it would become. With multi-million dollar ...
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 ...