sâmbătă, 26 aprilie 2014

Movies about nuclear disasters




Movies about nuclear disasters



The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska KatastrofaChornobyl Catastrophe; also referred as Chernobyl or the Chornobyl accident) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. (source: wikipedia)

Atomic train 1999, USA & Canada, directors: David Jackson & Dick Lowry
Broken Arrow 1996, USA, director: John Woo
By dawn's early light 1990 (after a novel by William Prochnau), USA, director: Jack Sholder
Chain of command 2000, USA, director: John Terlesky
Colossus: The Forbin project 1970 (after a novel by D.F. Jones), USA, director: Joseph Sargent
Crimson Tide 1995, USA, director: Tony Scott
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb 1964 (after the novel ‘Red alert’ by Peter George), USA & UK, director & co-writer: Stanley Kubrick
Fail-Safe 1964 (based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler), director & co-producer: Sidney Lumet
Hiroshima 1995, Canada & Japan, directors: Koreyoshi Kurahara & Roger Spottiswoode
It came from beneath the sea 1955, USA, director: Robert Gordon
K-19: The widowmaker 2002, USA, director: Kathryn Bigelow
Ladybug Ladybug 1963, USA, director: Frank Perry
MacGruber 2010, USA, director: Jorma Taccone
Meteor 1979, USA, director: Ronald Neame
Miracle Mille 1988, USA, director & writer: Steve De Jarnatt
Mission: Impossible - Ghost protocol 2011, USA, United Arab Emirates & Czech Republic, director: Brad Bird
Next 2007 (after the novel story ‘The Golden Man’ by Phillip K. Dick), USA, director: Lee Tamahori
On the beach 1959 (after a novel by Nevil Shute), USA, director: Stanley Kramer
On the beach 2000 (after a novel by Nevil Shute; remake), Australia & USA, director: Russell Mulcahy
RED 2, USA, France & Canada, director: Dean Parisot
Seven days in May 1964 (after a novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II), USA, director: John Frankenheimer
Seven days to noon 1950, UK, directors: John Boulting & Roy Boulting
Superman IV: The quest for peace 1987, UK & USA, director: Sidney J. Furie
Testament 1983 (based on the story ‘The last testament’ by Carol Amen), director: Lynne Littman The China syndrome 1979, USA, director: James Bridges
The day after 1983 (TV movie), director: Nicholas Meyer
The divide 2011, Germany, USA & Canada, director: Xavier Gens
The half life of Timofey Berezin [Pu-239] 2006 (after the short story ‘PU-239’ by Ken Kalfus), USA, director & writer: Scott Z. Burns
The hunt for Red October 1990 (after the same novel by Tom Clancy), USA, director: John McTiernan
The peacemaker 1997, USA, director: Mimi Leder
The sum of all fears 2002 (after a novel by Tom Clancy), USA & Germany, director: Phil Alden Robinson
Thirteen days 2000 (after the book ‘The Kennedy Tapes - Inside the White House during the Cuban missile crisis’ by Ernest R. May & Philip D. Zelikow), USA, director: Roger Donaldson
Thunderball 1965 (after the same novel by Ian Fleming 1961), UK, director: Terence Young