Spec me: nuclear themed films!

mike62 · 5 Oct 2012 at 13:02

Them!

1954 film: The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

Good film and the effects aren't bad for the time.

VoG · 5 Oct 2012 at 13:08

Can't believe no ones mentioned The Bedfod Incident

A real edge of the seat cold war classic, ide actually put it on a par with Fail Safe.

Curio · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:44

VoG said:
Can't believe no ones mentioned The Bedfod Incident

A real edge of the seat cold war classic, ide actually put it on a par with Fail Safe.

Thanks for that one - never heard of it. The main cast looks epic!

Naffa · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:56

I know that it's nothing like the others, and isn't even a movie, but 24: Day 2 is absolutely beastifying.

Chicken #16 · 5 Oct 2012 at 18:16

Surviving Disaster - a BBC docu drama about Chernobyl more about nuclear accidents but the results are pretty similar

China Syndrome generated a good sense of fear of what might happen if a powerstation went into full melt down (i think)

Alan! · 5 Oct 2012 at 19:06

Try The Fog Of War by Errol Morris.

Covers the Cuban Missile crisis, WW2 bombing of Japan, and the Vietnam War.

CaNsA · 5 Oct 2012 at 19:14

No Damnation Ally?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/

Castiel · 5 Oct 2012 at 19:18

Damnation Alley was a cool film, but pretty dated now....along with such films as Boy and his Dog, In the Aftermath, Salute of the Jugger, Steel Dawn and the myriad of other post-nuclear holocaust movies that were popular at the time.

OP, watch Miracle Mile if you can find it and Testament. Both are pretty good if a little dated.