10 Films that went Nuclear

Black Rain (1989)


Director: Shôhei Imamura
Starring: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse’s novel.

WarGames (1983)


Director: John Badham
Starring: Matthew Borderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

On the Beach (1959)


Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.