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2) Broken arrow
Publisher
20th Century Fox Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads.
3) Crimson tide
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001].
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a global crisis, the USS Alabama receives an unconfirmed order to launch its nuclear missiles. The tension quickly rises as the sub's respected commander and his brilliant executive officer clash over the validity of their orders, battling each other for control of the sub.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swedish
Description
Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, The sacrifice is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.
6) On the beach
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Thoughtful version of Nevil Shute's novel about Australians awaiting effects of nuclear fallout from explosion that has destroyed the rest of the world. Good performances by all, including Astaire in his first dramatic role." --Maltin.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Sinister masterminds unleash a diabolical plan: the entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain. But the youth's sister and a streetwise band of truants join forces in a desperate attempt to save the city from destruction.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
MPAA rating: PG.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
10) Fail-safe
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President tries to call them back, but their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate.
12) Die Wand
Publisher
Distributed by Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.
Publisher
Other Cinema
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sins of the fleshapoids: Set a million years in the future, after "The Great War" has scourged the planet, mankind has forsaken science for self-indulgence. Work is left to enslaved androids. One male robot tires of pampering his lazy masters, and joins the humans in sin.
The secret of Wendel Samson (1966): a dark, surreal psychodrama of sexual desire and the entaglements of intimacy.
The craven sluck (1967): tells a torrid tale of adultery and...
14) Invasion U.S.A
Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious stranger engages a diverse group of Manhattan bar patrons in a discussion on the best way to beat communism. Suddenly, a real Red Alert is declared and enemy parachutists by the thousands begin landing on American soil! Soon atom bombs are dropping, skyscrapers are crumbling and fifth columnists are taking over key industries. Through it all, a suave, street-smart reporter and a beautiful debutante desperately try to find time for romance...
15) Z for Zachariah
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three young people find themselves caught up in a love triangle after a disaster has wiped out most of civilization.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Panic in year zero (1962): Details what might happen to the survivors of a nuclear attack.
The last man on earth (1964): Thinking himself the only person alive after a plague that has also killed his wife and child, a scientist fights a nightly battle with what appear to be vampires, trying to break into his house.
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
19) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
20) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
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