Comprehensive list of nuclear war movies.

[SODsniper]

By Dawn's Early Light was an awesome flick...

And there is also the new TV Series JERICHO which is a nuclear Terrorist attack, but a "war" nonetheless


SODsniper

I agree I like by dawns early light, because it portrays what happens in the command structure during a nuclear war.

Yep, it proves the old war adage quite nicely.


NO PLAN SURVIVES CONTACT WITH THE ENEMY


SODsniper

[KingAl]

Leaving. Too many dipshits around here.

Well, thank god we've got one less.

[Montyphy]

EDIT: Leaving. Too many dipshits around here.

I just knew you wouldn't last long.

[dawnchorus]

I don't know if these fit your criteria:

There was an animated film version of Raymond Briggs's When the Wind Blows, and the novel Z for Zachariah was turned into a TV play by the BBC. WTWB is about a war actually happening, and ZFZ is more of a post-holocaust tale of intrigue. If we're allowed that, then I guess The Postman and Mad Max should be allowed. But since the near future is unknowable, any film set in the distant future could qualify. But now I'm just being daft.

[SODsniper]

Actually, I think THE POSTMAN was a Bio War flick...

Although I am probably in the minority here, I LOVED The Postman...


SODsniper

[xander]

Actually, I think THE POSTMAN was a Bio War flick...

Although I am probably in the minority here, I LOVED The Postman...


SODsniper

Brin's book basically states that the nukes are the beginning of the end -- civilization could have survived the nukes, but the Holn survivalists and a series of other events (including biological warfare) put the final nails in the coffin.

xander

[SODsniper]

Actually, I think THE POSTMAN was a Bio War flick...

Although I am probably in the minority here, I LOVED The Postman...


SODsniper

Brin's book basically states that the nukes are the beginning of the end -- civilization could have survived the nukes, but the Holn survivalists and a series of other events (including biological warfare) put the final nails in the coffin.

xander

I stand corrected....

Obviously you have seen the movie, eh?


SODsniper

[xander]

Obviously you have seen the movie, eh?

No, I haven't seen the movie.

xander

[Sydney CDN]

Not a movie but in the Battlestar Galactica mini series there are nukes going off all over the place on the planet.

[TheHappyFriar]

in "Starship Troopers" the soldiers fire mini-nukes (still not sure how that works). A nuclear war doesn't mean BOTH sides have nukes, just one side uses them

Wasn't released in theatres but in "Animatrix", the two shorts (The Second Renaissance Parts I & II) on how the machines took over has the humans using nuclear weapons in a war against the machines.

If you want to get picky (or not), in Terminator 2, Sara has a dream about the start of the machine attack in which they nuke LA (there wasn't an official "war" but more of a pre-emptive strike)/

Aliens: Yeah, I KNOW there's no war, but the tagline for the movie is "This time, it's war" AND the nuke plant reactor does go boom a few minutes before the movie ends (picky picky picky, eh? )

Wasn't there a "Twilight Zone" in which a librarian wishes he would be alone, then nuclear war happens & he is alone (and he breaks his glasses)?

If we made a list of movies that are based around the aftermath of nuclear war, i think we'd have a better list.

[SODsniper]

Wasn't there a "Twilight Zone" in which a librarian wishes he would be alone, then nuclear war happens & he is alone (and he breaks his glasses)?

Burgess Meredith (Better known as The Penguin in the old BATMAN series) played that librarian.

A very good episode.


SODsniper

[Deaf_Con]

Wasn't there a nuclear exchange in Terminator 3? (refered to as Judgement Day and also mentioned in T1 and T2 too)

[peacekeeper]

Fail Safe

Oh boy, it's gonna hit the fan again

Jeff

[MoonHill]

Wasn't there a nuclear exchange in Terminator 3? (refered to as Judgement Day and also mentioned in T1 and T2 too)

Yep, and it was a beaut, too.

From a horrifying scene of the hopelessness of changing the future sort of perspective, that is.

[Red Dawn]

Actually, I think THE POSTMAN was a Bio War flick...

Although I am probably in the minority here, I LOVED The Postman...


SODsniper

IIRC, the Postman was set after a civil war in America that the rest of the world sat out.