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1. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

R | 107 min | Horror, Thriller

6.4
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52 Metascore

A traveling family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization.

Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin

Votes: 183,524 | Gross: $41.78M

2. Godzilla (I) (1998)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

5.4
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32 Metascore

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Votes: 203,919 | Gross: $136.31M

3. Godzilla (1954)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

7.5
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79 Metascore

After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Votes: 39,924 | Gross: $2.42M

4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure

6.2
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65 Metascore

Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen

Votes: 491,969 | Gross: $317.10M

5. Bridge of Spies (2015)

PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller

7.6
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81 Metascore

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan

Votes: 328,129 | Gross: $72.31M

6. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

6.5
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50 Metascore

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack

Votes: 9,141 | Gross: $3.56M

7. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

6.5
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When opportunistic tycoons refuse to return Mothra's egg to Infant Island, its people must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help when Godzilla arises near Nagoya.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yû Fujiki

Votes: 10,377

8. Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Approved | 78 min | Action, Sci-Fi

5.7
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Scout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.

Directors: Motoyoshi Oda, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura

Votes: 8,387

9. Blue Sky (1994)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Romance

6.4
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Carly moves with her military husband and their two daughters to an isolated army base, only to quickly become part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress

Votes: 8,195 | Gross: $3.36M

10. Dark Blood (2012)

TV-PG | 86 min | Thriller

6.3
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Dealing with nuclear testing and its deadly effects, the story portrays Boy, a young widower living in the desert on a nuclear testing site. Living as a hermit, he waits for the end of the world.

Director: George Sluizer | Stars: River Phoenix, Judy Davis, Jonathan Pryce, Karen Black

Votes: 1,440

11. Split Second (1953)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.8
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Two escaped killers take hostages and hide in a Nevada mining ghost town, knowing that an atom bomb is scheduled to be tested there the next morning.

Director: Dick Powell | Stars: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes

Votes: 1,829

12. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

6.6
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A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey

Votes: 8,746 | Gross: $5.00M

13. Desert Bloom (1986)

PG | 105 min | Drama, Family, Romance

6.6
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The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic... See full summary »

Director: Eugene Corr | Stars: Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, Annabeth Gish, Ellen Barkin

Votes: 1,101 | Gross: $0.42M

14. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

7.2
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When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe

Votes: 6,213

15. Cold War (1998)

47 min | Documentary, History

8.7
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A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev

Votes: 1,039

16. The Atomic Cafe (1982)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History

7.6
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Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

Directors: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty | Stars: Paul Tibbets, Harry S. Truman, W.H.P. Blandy, Brien McMahon

Votes: 4,540 | Gross: $0.02M

17. The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Drama, Horror

4.6
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A military officer survives a nuclear blast, only to begin to uncontrollably grow into an increasingly unstable giant.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor

Votes: 2,848

18. The Giant Behemoth (1959)

Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

5.7
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Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur that threatens London.

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Gene Evans, André Morell, John Turner, Leigh Madison

Votes: 2,911

19. Terror Circus (1973)

R | 86 min | Horror

4.2
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Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have stuck all night when their car breaks down. The next morning ,a man offers them help, but, he's really a maniac.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni, Gyl Roland

Votes: 755

20. The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)

Unrated | 54 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

1.9
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A defecting Soviet scientist is hit by a nuclear explosion near Yucca Flats and roams around as a beast.

Director: Coleman Francis | Stars: Douglas Mellor, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Larry Aten

Votes: 10,435

21. The New People (1969–1970)

45 min | Drama

7.3
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A group of young people crash-land on a deserted island that was a never-used atomic bomb test site. With the world thinking that they were all killed, they set out to form a civilization.

Stars: Tiffany Bolling, Zooey Hall, David Moses, Peter Ratray

Votes: 113

22. Ground Zero (1987)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

6.4
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A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for... See full summary »

Directors: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Stars: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate

Votes: 551 | Gross: $0.20M

23. Nightbreaker (1989 TV Movie)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

6.3
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Dr. Brown thinks back on his 30+ years working as an Army shrink in Nevada in 1956, when U.S. soldiers were exposed to A-bomb radiation.

Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 503

24. In the Dark of the Valley (2021)

101 min | Documentary, History

7.7
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A group of mothers discover that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was the site of one of the largest nuclear accidents in United States history; and may have exposed their children and their community to cancer-causing hazardous waste.

Director: Nicholas Mihm

Votes: 120

25. Test (2014)

96 min | Drama

7.3
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A mischievous father and his gentle, beautiful daughter live a quiet life in a vast plain until two young men fall for the girl. The love triangle leads to a wholly unexpected turn of ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Elena An, Danila Rassomakhin, Karim Pakachakov, Narinman Bekbulatov-Areshev

Votes: 600

26. Murder in the Pacific (2023)

Documentary

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The efforts by the New Zealand authorities to solve the case of who bombed the Rainbow Warrior ship in 1985, which resulted in the death of one of the crew.

Stars: Chris Martin, Peter Willcox, Bunny McDiarmid, Pierre Joxe

Votes: 82

27. Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story (2008)

98 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

7.9
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Convicted gun runner, Las Vegas visionary, crusading newspaper publisher, target of the Watergate burglars, hero of Israel's War of Independence, these are only some the highlights of Hank ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Goldstein | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Ehrlichman, Barbara Greenspun, Brian Greenspun

Votes: 154

28. Atomic Rulers (1965 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

3.8
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Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!

Directors: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii, Akira Mitsuwa | Stars: Ken Utsui, Sachihiro Ohsawa, Junko Ikeuchi, Minako Yamada

Votes: 454

29. Ulzhan (2007)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

6.7
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Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or ... See full summary »

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Ayanat Ksenbai, David Bennent, Maximilien Muller

Votes: 657

30. Black Ocean (2010)

87 min | Drama

5.4
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Three young boys aboard a French naval vessel in 1974, unaware of the risks they run and the dramatic effects on our planet, take part in the nuclear tests in Mururoa, in the Pacific.

Director: Marion Hänsel | Stars: Adrien Jolivet, Nicolas Robin, Romain David, Alexandre de Sèze

Votes: 175

31. The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1986 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

7.6
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John Pilger tells of their struggles of indigenous Australians as they were driven from their lands and he follows events throughout this century as they relate to Aboriginal rights.

Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Vince Forrester, Mario Fredericks, Bob Hawke

Votes: 45

32. Nukes in Space (1999 Video)

53 min | Documentary, History

7.6
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U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Director: Peter Kuran | Stars: Raymond Garthoff, Bernard Lovell, Bernard Schriever, William Shatner

Votes: 269

33. 92 Atomic Bomb Explosions on the Planet Earth (2010)

20 min | Documentary, Short

7.3
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A warning about the number of atomic bombs that have been exploded for tests on our planet Earth.

Director: Peter Greenaway

Votes: 12

34. Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999 Video)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History

7.9
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A tour of U.S. atomic test sites in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, and Alaska.

Director: Peter Kuran | Stars: Peter Merlin, William Shatner

Votes: 269

35. The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island (2009)

89 min | Documentary

7.2
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"Rainbow Warrior" is a legendary ship with which Greenpeace launched its first whale defense campaigns since the late 1970s. He also served in actions that protect the water from dropping ... See full summary »

Director: Suzanne Raes

Votes: 44

36. Silent Storm (2003)

90 min | Documentary, History

8.2
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In 2001 tons of ashed human bones were found in Melbourne, contaminated by Strontium 90, a toxic residue of nuclear weapon tests in Australia and around the world.

Director: Peter Butt | Stars: Paula Arundell, Bille Brown, Penny Brabin, Peter Burns

Votes: 20

37. Operation Ivy (1952)

Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary

5.6
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A short produced by the US government about the development of the hydrogen bomb leading up to its testing and explosion over Bikini Atoll.

Stars: Norris E. Bradbury, P.W. Clarkson, Alvin. C. Graves, Reed Hadley

Votes: 18

38. Vybor tseli (1975)

158 min | Biography, Drama

6.6
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Director: Igor Talankin | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Nikolay Volkov, Irina Skobtseva

Votes: 88

39. Gerboise bleue (2009)

90 min | Documentary

7.5
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A documentary about the controversial and secret French nuclear testings in Algeria.

Director: Djamel Ouahab

Votes: 7

40. Half Life (1986)

87 min | Documentary

8.2
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A documentary on American nuclear testing in the Pacific atolls.

Director: Dennis O'Rourke

Votes: 80

41. Polygon (2019)

Documentary

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Director: Kairat Nurmugambetov

42. A-Bombs Over Nevada (2016 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 51 min | History

8.0
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A series of nuclear bomb test conducted outside Las Vegas in the 1950s and early 60s

Director: Tom Jennings

Votes: 73

43. Atomic Explosion Heard in Russia (1949)

2 min | Documentary, Short, News

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Stars: Leslie Mitchell, Dean Acheson, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov

44. Vive la bombe! (2006 TV Movie)

90 min | History, War

6.8
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Director: Jean-Pierre Sinapi | Stars: Cyril Descours, Olivier Barthélémy, Matthieu Boujenah, Damien Jouillerot

Votes: 69

45. Blowing Up Paradise (2005 TV Movie)

80 min | Documentary

8.3
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Since 1945, more than 2,050 atomic bombs have exploded on Earth. The testing of atomic bombs had only one positive effect-the proliferation of thousands of conservation and political ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Lewis | Stars: Michel Arakino, Catherine Baker, Charlie Ching, Jacques Chirac

Votes: 18

46. Test of a clean hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons (1961)

40 min | Documentary, Short

7.0
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Top secret documentary movie about successful testing of the largest H-bomb in history of mankind (Tsar Bomba) has been recently declassified and available to public.

Directors: Dmitriy Bogolepov, Igor Gostev

Votes: 9

47. Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)

52 min | Documentary, History

8.2
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One hour documentary examining the seventy year history of nuclear and atomic industry, weapons, testing in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.

Director: Harry Bardwell | Stars: Martin Vaughan, Arthur Baillie, Eric Geddes, Roger Goldsworthy

Votes: 7

48. Operation Crossroads (1946)

26 min | Documentary, Short

6.1
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Footage of the Able Day and Baker Day nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, accompanied by a narrator who explains the purpose and benefits of the testing.

Votes: 12

49. Let's Face It (1954)

13 min | Documentary, Short

6.2
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Votes: 6

50. Operation A-Bomb (1953)

16 min | Documentary, Short, War

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The actual story of two atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert, in which United States Army and Marine Corps participated. Atomic warfare maneuvers and the actual explosions are shown.

Director: Burton Benjamin | Star: Bob Considine



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