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1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 737,464 | Gross: $326.11M
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure
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: 491,919 | Gross: $317.10M
3. No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Approved | 119 min | Comedy, War
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 4,444
4. Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher, William Prince
Votes: 3,000
5. Operation Buffalo (2020)
52 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Maralinga, South Australia, at the height of the Cold War, at a remote army base carrying out British nuclear testing, paranoia runs rife and nuclear bombs are not the only things being put to the test.
Stars: Ewen Leslie, Jessica De Gouw, James Cromwell, Tony Martin
Votes: 892
6. Crack in the World (1965)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox
Votes: 2,875
7. Living It Up (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,752 | Gross: $9.35M
8. Ground Zero (1987)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
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
9. Test (2014)
96 min | Drama
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
10. The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
Director: George S. Kaufman | Stars: William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes, Arleen Whelan
Votes: 709
11. Top Secret Affair (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy
Unhappy about the appointment of an army general to the chairmanship of an atomic energy committee, a publishing empire female tycoon invites the general to her country estate in an effort to entrap him and ruin his reputation.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Paul Stewart, Jim Backus
Votes: 567
12. Maralinga Tjarutja (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
When the dust settles, culture remains...The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
Director: Larissa Behrendt | Stars: Jeremy Lebois, Mima Smart, Hilary Williams, Tommy Baker
Votes: 31
13. Nuked (2023)
92 min | Documentary
NUKED is the human story of the nuclear arms race, tracing a people's 74 year struggle to survive from the first detonation in 1946 to the present day, Their quest for justice takes on urgency with climate change posing an imminent threat.
Director: Andrew Nisker | Stars: Fredrick Aitab, Eldin Alik, Holly M. Barker, Gordon C. Benjamin
Votes: 5
14. The Half-Life of Genius Physicist Raemer Schreiber (2017)
TV-PG | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of an early atomic pioneer - the "Farmer/Physicist" from a small town in Oregon. The right place, right time and right skills, hired by JR Oppenheimer, Schreiber would go onto to assembling the world's first atomic weapons.
Directors: Jared Brandon-Flande, John Webb | Stars: Albert Einstein, Klaus Fuchs, Jake Hecla, Roger Meade
Votes: 53
15. Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999 Video)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History
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
16. The House in the Middle (1954)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Courtesy of the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association, this helpful short shows you how good housekeeping and fresh paint can protect you and your family from the worst of an atomic blast.
Votes: 473
17. Silent Storm (2003)
90 min | Documentary, History
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
18. Operation Ivy (1952)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary
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
19. Operation Cue (1955)
15 min | Documentary, Short
A reporter is given a tour of the Nevada Test Site before witnessing an atom bomb detonation, part of the Operation Teapot series of nuclear tests in 1955.
Votes: 22
20. Gerboise bleue (2009)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary about the controversial and secret French nuclear testings in Algeria.
Director: Djamel Ouahab
Votes: 7
21. This Little Ship (1953)
11 min | Documentary, Short, History
The sacrifice of HMS Plym in the first British atomic bomb test.
Directors: Adrian Cooper, Ron Osborn | Star: Jack Hawkins
Votes: 8
22. Vive la bombe! (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | History, War
Director: Jean-Pierre Sinapi | Stars: Cyril Descours, Olivier Barthélémy, Matthieu Boujenah, Damien Jouillerot
Votes: 69
23. The Woomera Atomic Tests (1954)
3 min | Documentary, Short, News
Stars: Lionel Gamlin, William Penney
24. Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)
52 min | Documentary, History
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
25. Collisions (2016 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Lynette Wallworth | Stars: Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, Curtis Taylor, Lynette Wallworth
26. Atomic Filmmakers: Behind the Scenes (1999 Video)
46 min | Documentary, History
Director: Peter Kuran | Stars: Pat Bradley, Doug Lee, Pierre Wilson, Douglas Wood
Votes: 66
27. Operation Crossroads (1946)
26 min | Documentary, Short
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
28. Ground Zero: An Important Story - Jack Thompson in Conversation (2008 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Jack Thompson, Burnham Burnham, Simon Chilvers, Peter Cummins
29. Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1979)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary about the atomic testing done in the desert of Nevada, the health risks it posed to closely involved military personnel, and the lack of transparency from US administrations about its effects on the public at large.
Directors: Saul Landau, Jack Willis | Stars: Paul Jacobs, Penny Bernstein, Saul Landau
Votes: 8
30. Operation Doorstep (1953)
10 min | Documentary, Short
This Civil Defense films shows the results of atomic testing on houses at Yucca Flats, NV. Although the purpose of the film was to inform viewers of what rooms of the house to avoid in case... See full summary »
31. The Air Force and the Atom Bomb (1959)
13 min | Documentary, Short, History
A history of the early United States atomic- and hydrogen-bomb tests and the supporting role of the U. S. Air Force.
32. The Nature of Battle (2008)
3 min | Animation, Short
In a ruined world, where mankind has brought destruction upon themselves, a new hope arrives in the form of a seed.
Director: Nat Dart
Votes: 8
33. Operation Crossroads: The Dawn of Atomic Weapons (2008 Video)
Documentary, History
A collection of four films detailing early United States atomic- and hydrogen-bomb tests.
34.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Dominators: Episode 1
(1968)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Dulkis where the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie decide to have a quiet holiday. Only to find the Evil Dominators and their robotic slaves, The Quarks have arrived on... See full summary »
Director: Morris Barry | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Ronald Allen, Kenneth Ives, Arthur Cox
Votes: 507
35.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
Survival in Box Canyon
(1956)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A rescue mission is mounted to find the plane carrying a nuclear physicist to an atomic experiment.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Truman Bradley, Bruce Bennett, DeForest Kelley, Paul Birch
Votes: 31
36.
Message Stick (1997–2012)
Episode:
Maralinga: The Anangu Story - Part One
(2009)
30 min | Documentary
50 years ago secret atomic tests were carried out at a place called Maralinga in South Australia. The traditional aboriginal communities were to be moved but somehow they were covered in radioactive fallout.
Director: Rick Cavaggion | Star: Miriam Corowa
37.
Message Stick (1997–2012)
Episode:
Maralinga: The Anangu Story - Part Two
(2009)
30 min | Documentary
25 years ago the Anangu People of South Australia were allowed to return to part of their traditional lands affected by atomic bomb testing in the 50s and 60s. After a nuclear waste cleanup they moved back to the settlement of Oak Valley.
Director: Rick Cavaggion | Star: Miriam Corowa
38.
60 Minutes (1979– )
Episode:
Fred's Vision/Sleeping with the Enemy/Nuclear Time Bomb
(2011)
News
39.
Agent Carter (2015–2016)
Episode:
A View in the Dark
(2016)
TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Peggy discovers her murder investigation has huge ramifications that can destroy her career, as well as everyone near and dear to her.
Director: Lawrence Trilling | Stars: Hayley Atwell, James D'Arcy, Enver Gjokaj, Wynn Everett
Votes: 2,459
40.
The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)
Episode:
Now More Than Ever, We Care About You
(2018)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Juliana Crain makes a new acquaintance in the Neutral Zone - an Irish fixer named Wyatt - and soon finds herself on the run and seeking Tagomi's aid. The Japanese test an atomic bomb. Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Joel de la Fuente
Votes: 1,630
41.
Back Roads (2015–2024)
Episode:
Ceduna
(2015)
28 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Award-winning journalist Heather Ewart takes a trip to the Nullarbor frontier town of Ceduna on the Great Australian Bight, where breaking conventions is the rule.
Stars: Heather Ewart, George Baldwin, Bev Bedson, Adrian Brooks