Nuclear War Movies

Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of...

Found-footage short film about the paths connecting our global lives. Also, a plea against genocide.

When Peter Watkins’ banned nuclear war masterpiece "The War Game" reached Toronto in 1967, it found an unlikely home at Cinecity, a new cinema...

Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work is done by androids, referred to derisively by...

Two young women journey from the outskirts of the city to a radioactive area deep in the woods. Along the way they encounter a young drifter. As they...

A series of escalating incidents around the world lead to greater and greater conflict, placing the superpowers at one another's throats. Armies...

An archive-based feature documentary viewing the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of the ABC network, as it narrowly succeeds in...

After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their...

An instructional film released by the UK Warning and Monitoring Organization which depicts its operations in the lead-up to and aftermath of a...

A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of...

One comes to Earth after a few decades in space. But what if there is no Earth anymore? What if the only thing left of all the cities and countries...

Set in an alternate, post-apocalyptic 1976, a filmmaker follows a worn and disillusioned photographer who, despite the circumstances, continues to...

A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.

The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war...

A cautionary tale. When nuclear war becomes imminent, two estranged former lovers reunite and find one final moment of peace in the last light of the...

In a dying 1950s town, a mysterious traveler propositions a young farmhand, Donnie, to help take down the town's tyrannical leader in exchange for...

A documentary film about the effects of nuclear weapons. What would be the effects on people and buildings if one medium-sized nuclear bomb was...

A struggling comedian forces herself onto the lineup of New York’s most coveted comedy showcase, using the fallout of a nuclear missile alert...