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1. Chernobyl (2019)
TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis
Votes: 868,513
2. Godzilla (1954)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi
Votes: 39,899 | Gross: $2.42M
3. Casino Royale (1967)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
Votes: 32,537
4. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
Votes: 67,467 | Gross: $35.17M
5. The Fifth Estate (2013)
R | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Carice van Houten, Alicia Vikander
Votes: 42,737 | Gross: $3.25M
6. The China Syndrome (1979)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Votes: 33,093 | Gross: $51.72M
7. Project X (1987)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Willie, Okko
Votes: 12,854 | Gross: $18.53M
8. The Days (2023)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hao Feng, Nobi Nakanishi, Minae Noji
Votes: 6,528
9. Nuclear Now (2022)
105 min | Documentary
An investigation into the possibility of addressing climate change with a move away from fossil fuels to nuclear power.
Director: Oliver Stone
Votes: 879
10. The Ten (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
10 stories, each inspired by one of the 10 Commandments.
Director: David Wain | Stars: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody
Votes: 16,972 | Gross: $0.77M
11. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
96 min | Documentary, History
Newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts to lay bare the tragedy and heroic efforts made to prevent another explosion.
Director: James Jones | Stars: Lyudmila Ignatenko, Oleksiy Breus, Leonenko Vitaliy, Aleksandr Syrota
Votes: 1,876
12. Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History
Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Stars: Rick Parks, Nicole Remsburg, Paula Kinney, Joyce Corradi
Votes: 5,423
13. The Chain Reaction (1980)
92 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A holidaying couple is pursued by the thugs of a nearby nuclear storage facility's boss, who is intent on covering up an accidental leak.
Director: Ian Barry | Stars: Steve Bisley, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Ralph Cotterill
Votes: 1,180
14. Fukushima 50 (2020)
TV-PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Takumi Saitô, Riho Yoshioka
Votes: 3,379
15. Atomic Train (1999)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A train filled with atomic devices threatens to destroy the city of Denver. John Serger (an NTSB agent) has to prevent this from happening
Stars: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn
Votes: 2,355
16. Scorcher (I) (2002)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, California.
Director: James Seale | Stars: Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston
Votes: 1,486
17. Quatermass II (1955)
188 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, ... See full summary »
Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone
Votes: 483
18. Command and Control (2016)
PG | 92 min | Documentary, History
Documentary of 1980's near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser's award-winning book of the same name.
Director: Robert Kenner | Stars: Michael Bideller, Andreas Birnbaum, Tom Brokaw, Robin Brosch
Votes: 993 | Gross: $0.05M
19. Red Alert (1977 TV Movie)
95 min | Thriller
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.
Director: William Hale | Stars: William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau, Ralph Waite
Votes: 244
20. Die Wolke (2006)
105 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
"Die Wolke" (The Cloud) is about the breakdown of a nuclear-power station in Germany and the story of teenage lovers Hannah and Elmar, who take refuge. 38,000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.
Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Paula Kalenberg, Franz Dinda, Hans-Laurin Beyerling, Carina Wiese
Votes: 3,284
21. Y2K (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 93 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the US.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Ken Olin, Joe Morton, Kate Vernon, Lauren Tom
Votes: 425
22. In the Dark of the Valley (2021)
101 min | Documentary, History
A group of mothers discover that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was the site of one of the largest nuclear accidents in United States history; and may have exposed their children and their community to cancer-causing hazardous waste.
Director: Nicholas Mihm
Votes: 120
23. Fukushima: A Nuclear Story (2015)
84 min | Documentary, News
A powerful documentary - shot from March 11th, 2011 through March 2015 - that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that followed.
Director: Matteo Gagliardi | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Massimo Dapporto, Hal Yamanouchi
Votes: 412
24. Decay (1990)
103 min | Drama
1986. Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Director: Mikhail Belikov | Stars: Sergey Shakurov, Tatyana Kochemasova, Stanislav Stankevich, Georgiy Drozd
Votes: 269
25. Sayonara (2015)
112 min | Drama
In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. The entire population has to evacuate before being deluged by radiation ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Bryerly Long, Geminoid F, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Murata
Votes: 194
26. Disaster at Silo 7 (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A fuel leak inside an ICBM silo creates a dangerous situation that sends the local military and civilian authorities into a panic.
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Ray Baker, Peter Boyle, Patricia Charbonneau, Perry King
Votes: 209
27. Critical Assembly (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two college students (Heigl and Smith) build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against time.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Kerr Smith, J. August Richards, Jeff Roop
Votes: 420
28. The Land of Hope (2012)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. In wake of the disaster, the members of the Ono family who reside just outside the border of the mandatory evacuation zone face uncertainty.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ohtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka
Votes: 1,266
29. Birdboy (2011)
Not Rated | 13 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the forest lost in his fantasies.
Directors: Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez | Stars: Ana Lemos, Tacho González, Antón Rubal, Xermana Carballido
Votes: 475
30. Chernobyl Heart (2003)
39 min | Documentary, Short
This Academy Award-winning documentary takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster who have been born with a deteriorated heart condition.
Director: Maryann DeLeo | Stars: William Novick, Adi Roche
Votes: 797
31. Back to Chernobyl (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
The film presents the story of the Chernobyl disaster, as a mosaic of stories and experiences, from the difficult past and the sad results of the present, which is told from several different perspectives.
Director: Roman Shumunov | Stars: Oksana Braginsky, Gennady Fraierman, Boris Gerstein, Vladimir Kagan
Votes: 140
32. SL-1 (1983)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about the first disastrous nuclear reactor explosion in the United States in 1961.
Directors: Diane Orr, C. Larry Roberts
Votes: 6
33. Voices from Chernobyl (2016)
82 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Testimonies of Chernobyl based on the book of Svetlana Alexievitch
Director: Pol Cruchten | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Camille Saltet de Sablet d'Estières, Marc Citti, Yves Pignot
Votes: 105
34. America's Lost Bombs: The True Story of Broken Arrows (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, History
For the first time, survivors of America's most serious nuclear weapons accidents speak publicly about their experiences.
Stars: Arthur Kent, Eric Longabardi, Alfred D'Mario, Shaun Gregory
Votes: 20
35. The last people of Chernobyl 3 (2020)
70 min | Documentary
This documentary tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Shows their daily struggles and lets them share their stories.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Tomasz Knapik, Krystian Machnik
Votes: 111
36. Thorium, the Far Side of Nuclear Power (2016 TV Movie)
105 min | Documentary, Animation
Ever heard of the Thorium molten salt reactor? That's hardly surprising, as for 70 years, it has been inexplicably kept under wraps by the nuclear industry, despite the fact it could revolutionise energy production.
Director: Myriam Tonelotto | Stars: Gilbert Johnston, Michel Prud'Homme, Friedhelm Ptok
Votes: 119
37. Am Tag als Bobby Ewing starb (2005)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Germany, 1986: Niels, 17, and his mother Hanne leave Bremen to live in a rural hippie community after her divorce. While Hanne falls in love with Peter, the guru, her son doesn't like him ... See full summary »
Director: Lars Jessen | Stars: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Franz Dinda, Peter Lohmeyer, Richy Müller
Votes: 374
38. The Truth Game (1983 Video)
79 min
John Pilger's penetrating film which show the world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. When the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, ... See full summary »
Star: John Pilger
Votes: 11
39. Frostfire (1995 TV Movie)
90 min | Thriller
After the suicide of a snowboarder friend, his brother, Brandon, takes the depressed Nelson Nagarauk home to their tradition-conscious Inuit family at 69 degrees north. Brandon persuades ... See full summary »
Director: David Greene | Stars: Mosha Cote, Wendy Crewson, David Quamaniq, August Schmölzer
Votes: 61
40. Chernobyl: Men of steel (2022)
60 min | Documentary
Samosely are the people who did not come to terms with the forced evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster. They returned to their homes to live on the land of their fathers.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Krystian Machnik, Miroslaw Utta
Votes: 6
41. Odayaka (2012)
102 min | Drama
Set after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Yukako and Saeko are neighbours at their small Tokyo apartment. They are both anxious, nervous and uneasy about the world. Yukako worries about ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuteru Uchida | Stars: Kiki Sugino, Yûki Shinohara, Takeshi Yamamoto, Yû Koyanagi
Votes: 71
42. Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here? (1980 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
An investigation of U.S. nuclear weapons accidents, which are code-named "broken arrows."
Stars: Robert Aldridge, Curtis Anderson, William Arkin, Steve Bomse
43. The First Day (2008 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Story about the reaction of Austrian officials towards a maximum credible accident in the nuclear power plant Dukovany in the nearby Czech Republic.
Director: Andreas Prochaska | Stars: Franziska Weisz, Samuel Jung, Andreas Kiendl, Nikolai Gemel
Votes: 157
45. Valkoinen kääpiö (1986)
90 min | Drama
The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
Director: Timo Humaloja | Stars: Kari Heiskanen, Lilga Kovanko, Jaana Raski, Esko Salminen
Votes: 116
46. Psychosomatic (2008)
80 min | Thriller
An explosion at a nearby chemical factory locks two neighbours in together, but they are not what they seem. Who really is in danger.
Director: Andrew Charles Tanner | Stars: Dawn Harper, Rhys Hills, Samantha Jones, Andrew Charles Tanner
Votes: 10
47. The House of the Rising Sun (2013)
Drama
The Hiratas are a regular family who live in calm and friendly Kosai in Shizuoka Prefecture. They are happy and have a good relationship with their neighbours. Their lives and routines are ... See full summary »
Director: Takafumi Ohta | Stars: Kokoro Fujinami, Wakana Hashimoto, Izumi Hirasawa, Issei Ishida
48. S.O.S. Harrisburg (1980 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Peter Berggren | Stars: Lars Amble, Jan Bergquist, Stefan Böhm, Rolf Larsson
49. Sista varningen! (1980)
121 min | Documentary
About nuclear power with the breakdown at Three Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1979.
Director: Lennart Malmer | Stars: Hans Alfredson, Gösta Bohman, Dale Bridenbaugh, Helen Caldicott
Votes: 10
50. A Fire at Chernobyl (2020)
14 min | Short
Irina, Yuri, and their daughter are a family hoping for a stable life in Pripyat, but when a fire breaks out at the nuclear power plant and Yuri is called in to fulfill his firefighter duties, the life of the family is turned upside down.
Director: Ash Khatibi | Stars: Aaron Sinn, Mary Jane Wells, Maya Aoki Tuttle