Movies about nuclear disasters
The Chernobyl
disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa
– Chornobyl 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
