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"Let's face it, we don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, do we?"
— Group Captain Lionel Mandrake character {portrayed by Peter Sellers} in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" [1964]
 | "Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination On Film" [2001] by Jerome F. Shapiro Routledge 9x5¼ pb [11/2001] for $29.95 Routledge library 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2001] for $106.00 |
 | "Duck and Cover: Civil Defense Images In Film and Television From The Cold War To 9/11" [2011] by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. McFarland & Co. pb [9/2011] for $40.00 |
 | "Atomic Age Cinema: The Offbeat, The Classic, and The Obscure" [2014] by Barry Atkinson Author plunges us into a cinematic world dominated by the atomic bomb and off-Earth invaders, with monster special effects before C.G.I.; chapters/subjects include: key actors, companies, directors & composers; Toho’s forgotten monsters; Dr. Jekyll, British science fiction, noir thrillers & Jungle Jim; Chaney, Karloff, and Lugosi – the 1950s were the pivotal decade for horror, sci-fi, and fantasy Kindle Edition from Midnight Marquee/BearManor Media [1/2018] for $9.95 Midnight Marquee Press 9x6 pb [5/2014] for $25.00 |
 | "The Atomic Bomb In Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays - Illustrated" [2015] Edited and largely written by Matthew Edwards Kindle Edition from McFarland & Co. [7/2018] for $16.49 McFarland & Co. 10x7 pb [6/2015] for $35.00 |
 | "Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967" [2017] by Mike Bogue, Foreword by Allen A. Debus Kindle Edition from McFarland [8/2017] for $11.99 McFarland 10½x7¼ pb [8/2017] for $39.95 |
Atomic Cinema
{ in alphabetical order }
'atomic bomb' genre at Internet Movie Database
"A Boy and His Dog" [1975]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog
"America's Atomic Bomb Tests:
The Secret Tests That Changed The World"
 | {declassified government technical training films}; includes 'Operation Tumbler Snapper', 'At Ground Zero' & 'Operation Hardtack' Image Ent. b&w DVD [7/2005] 3 disks for $14.99 |
"The Atomic Cafe" [indep March 1982]
 | A collection of 1960s U.S. government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans about surviving nuclear war • A film by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty; featuring archival footage of actor Hugh Beaumont, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, Sen. Lyndon Johnson, Nikita Khrushchev, Douglas MacArthur, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, atomic spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, Joseph Stalin, Lewis Strauss of the A.E.C., and Harry S. Truman
New Video Group color DVD [3/2002] for $13.41 Docurama Collectors Edition color DVD [11/2008] 2 disks for $28.57 extras? New Video Group color VHS [3/2002] for $13.41 full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Atomic Cover-Up" documentary [Exposed Films - festival circuit March 2021]
 | The U.S. government footage that was released after the nuclear bombing of Japan mostly showed the destruction to the infrastructure; this film reveals long-suppressed footage of the human suffering caused by that bombing in August of 1945 • Co-produced, written & directed by Greg Mitchell; featuring Sueo Ito, Daniel McGovern, with archive footage of Herbert Sussan •
credits at IMDb
DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch 2/2021 official trailer [2:27] online at Vimeo Greg Mitchell's blog 5/2020 movie homepage |
 | "Atomic Cover-Up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and The Greatest Movie Never Made (Expanded 2020 Edition)" [2011] by Greg Mitchell book probes the decades-long suppression of film footage shot by a U.S. Army unit in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - a detective story, and one of the last untold stories of World War II Kindle Edition from Sinclair Books [7/2011] for $3.79 CreateSpace 8x5 pb [1/2012] for $11.95 |
"The Atomic Filmmakers: Hollywood's
Top Secret Film Studio" [indep video release 1997]
 | Documentary produced & directed by Peter Kuran Goldhil color DVD [7/2003] for $12.99 Goldhil color VHS [11/99] for $9.48 full credits from IMDb |
"The Atomic Kid" [1954]
 | A uranium prospector is accidentally exposed to radiation from an atomic bomb test, then is recruited to infiltrate a spy ring. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson; written by Blake Edwards, Benedict Freed-man & John Fenton Murray; co-produced by & starring Mickey Rooney; also starring Robert Strauss, Elaine Devry {then Mrs. Rooney #4}, Bill Goodwin, Whit Bissell & Joey Forman
DVD/Blu-ray not available • Republic Pictures b&w VHS [9/94] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise" docufilm [BBC-TV Aug 2015]
 | 71-minute B.B.C. documentary with piano background
Directed by Mark Cousins credits at IMDb • DVD/Blu-ray not yet available watch trailer [2017 upload; 2:54] online at YouTube watch full movie [2/2021 upload; 1:08:59] online at YouTube |
"Atomic Twister" TV movie [T.B.S. June 2002]
 | The staff of a nuclear reactor struggle to avert disaster when tornadoes cause damage that threatens to start a melt-down; the movie bears very little resemblance to the actual event in June 1998 when an F2 tornado struck the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio • Directed by Bill Corcoran; co-produced & written by Ron McGee; starring Sharon Lawrence, Corbin Bernsen, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Carl Lewis, Jonathan Blick, Daniel Costello, Charmaine Guest, George Henare, John Leigh, John Sumner, David Aston, Paul Barrett, Grant Bridger, Katrina Devine, Peter Feeney, Taylor Garton, James Gaylyn, Michele Hine, Meryl Main, Joanna Morrison, Ashleigh Seagar, Jared Michael Thomas, Louise Wallace, Sara Wiseman, Roz Turnbull
Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [10/2017 upload; 0:30] online at YouTube watch full movie [2/2014 upload; 1:25:58] online at YouTube |
"Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen'
[Japan July 1983, USA June 1992]
 | The tale of a child surviving the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945; the manga books are important anti-war works, and the film is a landmark in animé art. Directed by Mori Masaki; written & produced by Keiji Nakazawa Image Ent. bilingual color DVD [4/99] out of stock/used Orion Home Video color VHS [7/95] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb sequel "Barefoot Gen 2" aka 'Hadashi no gen 2' [1986] Co-directed by Toshio Hirata & Akio Sakai; written by Keiji Nakazawa video not available; full credits from IMDb |
"B.B.C. History of World War II: Hiroshima"
[B.B.C. Aug 2005]
 | "... A Dramatized Documentary Exploring the Humanity & The Horror of The First Atomic Attack" Written, co-produced & directed by Paul Wilmshurst B.B.C./Warner DVD [7/2006] for $14.99 "B.B.C. History of World War II" 10-episode set {does not include 'Hiroshima'} B.B.C./Warner DVD box set [7/2005] 12 disks for $108.99 Hiroshima page at Free Information Society |
"The Bed Sitting Room" [1969]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bed_Sitting_Room
"The Beginning or The End" [M.G.M. Feb 1947]
 | Billed as a docudrama; the story of the atomic bomb; film's U.S. theatrical trailer masqueraded as an M.G.M. short subject with the title 'The Inquiring Reporter' • Produced by Samuel Marx; directed by Norman Taurog; written by Robert Considine & Frank Wead; art direction by Cedric Gibbons & Hans Peters; starring Brian Donlevy {as Gen. Groves}, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Audrey Totter, Hume Cronyn {as J. Robert Oppenheimer}, Hurd Hatfield, Joseph Calleia {as Enrico Fermi}, Godfrey Tearle {as Pres. Roosevelt}, Victor Francen, Richard Haydn, Jonathan Hale {as Vannevar Bush}, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Warner Anderson, Barry Nelson {as Paul Tibbetts Jr.}, Art Baker {as Pres. Truman}, Ludwig Stössel {as Albert Einstein}, John Hamilton, Frank Ferguson {as James B. Conant}, Tom Stevenson, John Gallaudet {as Leo Szilard}, Nella Walker, Edward Earle, Moroni Olsen, Norman Lloyd, Jim Davis, Charles Trowbridge, Frank Wilcox, Henry Hall, Paul Harvey, James Bush {as Ernest O. Lawrence}, Trevor Bardette, Blake Edwards, Bobby Jordan, Tommy Kelly, Patricia Medina, Chris-Pin Martin, Guy Williams {as bombardier on the Enola Gay}
Warner Archive Collection b&w DVD-R [9/2015] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • watch official 'Inquiring Reporter' trailer [1/2014 upload; 5:05] online at YouTube "¿Principio o Fin?" Spanish release [2017] Cinemateca Region 2 dubbed in Spanish? b&w DVD [10/2017] import/scarce in PAL format only |
"The Chain Reaction" [1980] /tt0080513/
A couple on holiday are pursued by thugs working for the boss of a nearby nuclear storage facility
who is intent on covering up an accidental leak.
"Chernobyl: Based On The Untold True Story" 5-part cable mini-series
[Home Box Office May-June 2019]
 | Detailed report on the 1986 incident, the attempted recovery, the cover-up, and the dangerous exposé; “a gruesome, riveting fable”; partial remake of the 1991 TV movie; the five episodes are: 1) "1:23:45"; 2) "Please Remain Calm"; 3) "Open Wide, O Earth"; 4) "The Happiness of All Mankind"; and 5) "Vichnaya Pamyat (Eternal Memory)" • Co-produced & directed by Johan Renck; co-produced & written by Craig Mazin; starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley, Emily Watson, Paul Ritter, Adam Nagaitis, Sam Troughton, Robert Emms, Con O'Neill, Adrian Rawlins, Alan Williams, Karl Davies, Michael Socha, Laura Elphinstone, Jan Ricica, David Dencik {as Michail Gorbatchev}, Ralph Ineson, Mark Lewis Jones, Rosie Sheehy; highest cable show viewer ratings of all time on IMDb (9.7 out of 10)
H.B.O. color Blu-ray [10/2019] 2 disks for $18.67 Warner Bros. color DVD+digital HD [10/2019] 2 disks for $19.96 H.B.O. color 4k HD format DVD [10/2020] 4 disks for $26.80 full credits at IMDb • official movie site • series entry at Wikipedia watch 3/2019 official trailer [2:38] at YouTube soundtrack album composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir [2019] Deutsche Grammophon soundtrack CD [5/2019] 13 tracks for $9.49 |
"The Chernobyl Podcast" [H.B.O. May-June]
 | N.P.R. radio host Peter Sagal interviews show creator Craig Mazin about the 5-part H.B.O. mini-series "Chernobyl" listen to 5/2019 Episode 1 audio recording [51:26] online at YouTube listen to 5/2019 Episode 2 audio recording [47:34] online at YouTube listen to 5/2019 Episode 3 audio recording [45:59] online at YouTube listen to 5/2019 Episode 4 audio recording [43:57] online at YouTube listen to 6/2019 Episode 5 audio recording [47:20] online at YouTube empty credits at IMDb |
"The China Syndrome" [IPC Films/Columbia Pictures March 1979]
 | When the film was first released on 16 March 1979, nuclear power executives soon lambasted the picture as being 'sheer fiction' and a 'character assassination of an entire industry'. Then twelve days after the film's launch, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - and the film became a blockbuster • Produced by Michael Douglas & Bruce Gilbert; co-written & directed by James Bridges; co-written by Mike Gray & T.S. Cook; starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Wilford Brimley, Richard Herd, Daniel Valdez, Stan Bohrman, James Karen, Michael Alaimo, Donald Hotton, Belinda Boyd, Paul Larson, Ron Lombard, Tom Eure, Nick Pellegrino, Daniel Lewk, Allan Chinn, Martin Fiscoe, Alan Kaul, Michael Mann, David Eisenbise, Frank Cavestani, Reuben Collins, E. Hampton Beagle, David Pfeiffer, Lewis Arquette, Dennis McMullen, Rita Taggart, James Hall, Carol Schlanger/Helvey, Trudy Lane, Jack Smith Jr., David Arnsen, Betty Harford, Donald Bishop, Al Baietti, Diandra Morrell, Darrell Larson, Roger Pancake, Joe Lowry, Harry M. Williams, Dennis Barker, Joseph Garcia, James Kline, Alan Beckwith, Clay Hodges, Val Clenard; film got 4 Oscar noms; Best Actress BAFTA Award to Jane Fonda; Jack Lemmon won Best Actor BAFTA Award, Best Actor Award at Cannes Film Festival, Best Foreign Actor David di Donatello Award; writers won W.G.A. Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen Award •
full credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
Image Ent. multi-format widescreen color Blu-ray [12/2014] for $12.67 Image Ent. multi-language widescreen color Blu-ray [undated] for $40.99 Image Ent. widescreen color DVD [8/2013] for $7.99 Columbia/Tristar widescreen color VHS [5/99] out of prodn/used Sony Pictures color VHS [6/96] out of prodn/used watch 1978 official trailer [4/2019 upload; 1:54] online at YouTube |
 | "The China Syndrome: The Screenplay" [1976 & 2003] Co-written by Mike Gray, James Bridges, and T.S. Cook CreatSpace 10¾x8 pb [4/2003] out of print/scarce publr unknown pb [1976] out of print/scarce "The China Syndrome" novelization [1979] by Burton Wohl
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 | "A Disaster Movie Comes True" cover article in People Magazine for 16 April 1979 People Weekly single issue [4/79] out of print/scarce |
"Cold War Hysteria" [2008]
 | Over 40 documentary films, including many declassified government films, plus "A Is For Atom", "A New Look At The H-Bomb", "The Atom Strikes!", "The Challenge of Ideas", "Duck and Cover", "Fallout: When and How To Protect Yourself", "Management of Mass Casualties", "Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation", "Red Chinese Battle Plan", "Special Delivery", "Stay Safe, Stay Strong: The Facts About Nuclear Weapons", "Survival Under Atomic Attack", "What You Should Know About Biological Warfare", and "You Can Beat The A-Bomb"
Mill Creek Ent. color/b&w DVD [5/2008] for $6.95 |
"Command and Control" documentary
[P.B.S. American Experience Sept 2016]
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Inside the Titan missile silo north of Damascus, Arkansas in 1980, a technician dropped a 6-pound tool; it fell 80 feet and bounced up and pierced the skin of the I.C.B.M delivery rocket, causing a fuel leak. The facility was safely evacuated, but the leak eventually caused an explosion; one Airman was killed and 21 others injured in the explosion and the nuclear warhead landed just inside the main gate. No radiation was released but the silo was destroyed and later dismantled and removed. • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Robert Kenner; co-produced & co-written by Eric Schlosser, based on his book
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • credits at IMDb • watch 7/2016 official trailer [2:18] online at YouTube |
 | "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Accident, and The Illusion of Safety" [2013] by Eric Schlosser book was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History • book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [9/2013] for $10.99 Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [8/2014] for $11.58 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2013] out of print/100+ used |
"Countdown To Zero"
[Participant / Magnolia July 2010]
 | anti-nuke documentary directed by Lucy Walker; narrated by Valerie Plame Wilson; featuring Tony Blair, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert McNamara, and many others
Magnolia Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [11/2010] for $21.99 full credits at IMDb • activism site • official movie site |
"The Cyclotron" [108 Media / Funfilm Distribution 2017]
 | In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb; things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase; filmed in black-and-white, major story time is on a train • Produced by Christine Falco; co-written & directed by Olivier Asselin; co-written by Lucille Fluet; starring Paul Ahmarani, Olivier Barrette, Martin Doepner, Lucille Fluet, Mark Antony Krupa, Benoit Mauffette, Manuel Sinor
credits at IMDb • official movie site DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch 12/2016 official trailer [1:38] online at YouTube Amazon Instant Video [2017] not available in USA |
"Dark Circle: It May Not Be Too Late"
[I.D.C./New Yorker Films Oct 1983]
 | A documentary that exposes the lethal safety lapses, the decades of lies, and the cover-ups within the U.S. nuclear industry, focusing on the poisoned-forever facility at Rocky Flats, Colorado. Co-produced, co-directed & narrated by Judy Irving; written & co-directed by Chris Beaver; co-produced by Ruth Landry; won Documentary Grand Prize at Sundance, Emmy for Best Documentary
Docurama/POV color DVD [3/2007] for $24.49 indep color VHS [undated] out of prodn/scarce full credits from IMDb |
"The Day After" TV movie [ABC Circle Films Nov 1983] /tt0085404/
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of Missouri and eastern Kansas; described as
'the most-watched and most-controversial made-for-TV movie' • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
"The Day After Trinity" [P.B.S./K.T.E.H. documentary Jan 1981]
 | Produced & co-written by Janet Peoples, co-written & directed by Jon Else; nominated for Best Documentary Oscar, won A.C.E. & Peabody awards
Image Ent. color DVD [5/2002] for $21.99 Pyramid Home Video color VHS [8/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Day One" tv movie [Spelling/CBS March 1989]
 | Directed by Joseph Sargent; based on the book {below}; starring Brian Dennehy, Hume Cronyn, David Strathairn {as Oppenheimer}, Michael Tucker {as Szilard}, Hal Holbrook, Tony Shalhoub {as Fermi}, Barnard Hughes & Richard Dysart; won Emmy for Best Drama Special
Acorn Media color DVD [11/2007] out of prodn/used Lions Gate color VHS [2/94] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia "Day One: Before Hiroshima & After" [1985] by Peter Wyden The Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard Warner pb [8/85] out of print/used S&S hardcover [8/85] out of print/many used |
"Dead Man's Letters (Pisma Myortvogo Cheloveka)" [Lenfilm Studio Russia 1986] /tt0091759/
Co-written & directed by Konstantin Lopushanskiy; in the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals seek to find hope in the pale and colorless
new world; among them, a history teacher tries to contact his missing son via letters.
"Do It For Uncle Graham" [indep 2004]
 | Filmed in New Mexico; reveals the development of the atomic industry in New Mexico and the cultural, economic, environmental, and health legacy from developing, testing, and storing nuclear weapons • Produced, written, directed & narrated by Candy Jones
DVD available at producer's website for $20.00 via email full credits at IMDb |
"Downwinders: The Cover-up At Ground Zero" [Turning Point/ABC News Feb 1994]
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TV journalist Peter Jennings investigates the U.S. government's decades-long decision to deny that there were harmful effects resulting from above ground nuclear tests conducted on the Nevada Testing Range; he talks to former nuclear test workers and several 'downwinders' whose lives were affected by the tests • Directed by Roger Goodman; co-written by Ed Fields & Elena Mannes; co-written & hosted by Peter Jennings; featuring Quentin Nisson, Stewart L. Udall, Norris Bradbury (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Langdon Harrison (Air National Guard), Frank Butrico, Helen Nisson, Ellen Bradbury, Reason Warehime, Keith Prescott, and 'downwinders' Claudia Peterson, Martha Laird, Beverly Laird, Elmer Pickett
full credits at IMDb • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available watch full episode [2/2015 upload; 50:02] online at YouTube |
"The Downwinders" [2008 - not released?]
 | dramatized story of people that were exposed to radioactive fallout as a result of the atomic bomb testing in Nevada in the 1950s • Produced by Shawnee Brittan & Joanna M. Champlin; co-produced & directed by Lance Brittan; starring Ben Hall, Andrew Sensenig, Joe Nemmers, Terry Dale Parks, Lucas Ross, Seth Kozak, Jody Mullins, Paul Stuart, Jennifer Laine Williams, Michael Gibbons, Eric Starkey, (producer) Shawnee Brittan, Brandon E. Jackson, Tom Huston Orr, Drew Nixon, David Cricklin, Rob Harris, Cassidy Mulligan, Mark Hinkle, Anna Gentle, Mark Gentle •
credits at IMDb • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available
watch official trailer [4/2010 upload; 1:39] online at YouTube |
"Downwinders" [2018]
documents the untold story of the impact the world’s first atomic bomb had on the Hispanic population in New Mexico
http://www.downwindfilm.com/ + http://www.vimeo.com/298364596 [2018]
Downwinders and the Radioactive West (PBS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUk-uOaOCuU Apr 9, 2022
"Downwinders" TV series [in devt 2022] /tt12452320/
Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" [1964]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXY3kuDvSU trailer 1:37
Stanley Kubrick [1928-99] Page at Magic Lantern Video & Bookstore
"Dr. Teller's Very Large Bomb"
[P.B.S. tv special Sept 2006]
 | Written & directed by Michael Lennick
color DVD available at filmmaker's website full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"Fat Man and Little Boy" [Paramount Oct 1989]
 | A re-enactment of the tensions inside the Manhattan Project, the secret research & design operation at Los Alamos, New Mexico that designed & built the atomic bombs used to end World War II.
Co-written & directed by Roland Joffé; co-written by Bruce Robinson; starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern & Natasha Richardson
Paramount color DVD [4/2004] for $9.99 Paramount color VHS [5/92] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
"Final Picture" feature film [Germany; festival circuit 2013]
USA release "Death Is In The Air" [indep May 2016]
 | 92-minute dramatic film about what happens when a small town in Bavaria is alerted to nuclear attack and the people head for the long-unused government bunkers but the bunkers cannot hold all of the residents. Co-produced, written & directed by Michael von Hohenberg; won Silver Award at Grenzland Film Tage Festival in 2013, won Best Movie Award at Intl. Uranium Film Festival in 2014 VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available full credits at IMDb • German-language official movie website watch official trailers online at YouTube: German-language trailer [2:38] • English-language trailer [1:30] |
"The Forgotten Bomb" documentary film [indep 2010]
 | Taglines: "Everything Depends On Remembering", "The True Story of Nuclear Weapons", and "Question What You Think You Know" • Co-produced by David Garcia; co-produced & directed by Stuart Overbey; featuring interviews with bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and authors Gar Alperovitz & Jonathan Schell
DVD available [3/2011] for $19.95 via PayPal directly from producer credits at IMDb • official movie site |
"Fukushima: A Nuclear Story" [Teatro Primo Studio Italy 2015]
 | "Everyone is guilty. No one is guilty. As in war." • Italian journalist Pio d'Emilia is based in Japan; on the day of the earth-quake & tsunami, he headed into the devestated coastal region, the first foreign reporter to arrive; docufilm is based on his reporting and on subsequent research lasting a total of four years • Co-produced by René Bourdages; co-produced, co-written & directed by Matteo Gagliardi; co-produced & co-written by Christine Reinhold; co-written by journalist Pio d'Emilia; music by Fabrizio Campanelli; narration in Italian by Massimo Dapporto; narration in English by Willem Dafoe
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available (2017) • full credits at IMDb • official movie website watch 3/2016 official trailer [2:01] online at YouTube |
"Ground Zero" [Hoyts-Burrowes Film Group 1987] /tt0093120/
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; if true, then his government has already killed people to keep the matter quiet.
"Hiroshima" TV mini-series [Hallmark Aug 1995]
 | Co-directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara & Roger Spottiswoode; starring Kenneth Welsh {as Harry Truman}, Timothy West, Naohiko Umewaka {as Hirohito}, Wesley Addy, Richard Masur, Leon Pownall, Daisaku Akino, David Gow & Ken Jenkins
Platinum Disc color DVD [2/2005] for $6.99 Hallmark color VHS [8/96] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb Hiroshima page at Free Information Society |
"Hiroshima: A Survivor's Story Bridging The New Education" [J.F.M.F. 2011]
 | 36-minute documentary video focusing on Keijiro Matsushima and his odyssey on the day that the bomb dropped; a testimony to the strength and endurance of atomic-bomb survivors, and 'a lesson as to why nuclear war damages not just lives, but our planet'. • Produced by Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund; written & directed by Marianne Tomasic; featuring Keijiro Matsushima, Lloyd Bowman, Jessie Jones, Sebastian Pensinger, Benjamin Rapp
347 Productions color DVD-R [2/2011] for $14.95 no entry at either IMDb or Wikipedia |
"Hiroshima: Out of The Ashes" TV movie
[NBC-TV August 1990]
 | Co-produced by Robert Greenwald; directed by Peter Werner; starring Max von Sydow, Judd Nelson, Mako, Tamlyn Tomita & Pat Morita Direct Source Label color DVD [4/2007] for $5.98 Anchor Bay color VHS [12/94] out of stock/used full credits at IMDb Hiroshima page at Free Information Society |
"Hiroshima: 60th Anniversary" [History Channel 2005]
 | Five 50-minute episodes from diverse History Channel series: "Hiroshima: The Decision To Drop The Bomb" {IMDb}; "Tech Effect: Hiroshima" {IMDb}; "Oppenheimer: Father of The Atomic Bomb" {IMDb}; "Man, Moment, Machine: Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb" {IMDb}; and "Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project" {IMDb}
A&E 4-hour-plus DVD set [undated] 2 disks - out of prodn/used |
"Hiroshima: Why The Bomb Was Dropped"
[A.B.C. News July 1995]
 | Hosted by Peter Jennings; won a Peabody Award
M.P.I. b&w DVD [11/2002] for $17.99 M.P.I. b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb Hiroshima page at Free Information Society |
"Hollywood In The Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!" [2021]
 | "Features close to 30 exclusive and revealing interviews, rare scoops, favorite fan film clips, and more. It's a must watch for any horror or sci-fi movie fan." • Produced, co-written & directed by Mark Gilman Jr.; co-written by Tom DeMichael; featuring interviews with actress Julie Adams, SFX actor Bob Burns, actor Billy Gray, actor David Hedison, actor Jimmy Hunt, actress Ann Robinson, actor William Schallert - and archive footage of Ron Adams, Terry Castle, Diana Gemora, Joyce Meadows, Hugh O'Brian, Victoria Price
credits at IMDb • watch official trailer [2/2021 upload; 0:52] online at YouTube Marshall Publng color DVD [4/2021] for $27.93 streaming on Vimeo [2/2021] rental $4.99, purchase $9.99 |
"Infinity" [First Look Intl. Oct 1996]
 | Young Richard Feynman is fascinated with science. He graduates college and marries his high school sweet- heart, who is diagnosed with tuberculosis, then accepts a job with the secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in New Mexico, where he studies nuclear physics as well as any medical research that might lead to a cure for his wife's failing health. Location filming included Los Alamos & Las Vegas, New Mexico and Princeton, New Jersey Co-produced by Matthew Broderick, Patricia Broderick & others; directed by & starring Matthew Broderick; script by Patricia Broderick, based on two books; also starring Patricia Arquette
First Look Pictures color DVD [10/2002] for $7.98 B.M.G. Video color VHS [1/98] out of prodn/used Intrada Records soundtrack CD [10/96] 15 tracks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia see also the Richard P. Feynman [1918-88] Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore |
"Japan's Longest Day"
[Toho Japan Aug 1967, USA March 1968]
 | This is the true story of 15 August 1945, as Japan's government considered surrender to the Allies; the 2-hour 40-minute film is broadcast in Japan every year on the anniversary of the surrender. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan's Army Minister Anami proposed to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito and his other mini-sters considered the unthinkable – the peaceful surrender of Japan. When Anami learned of a military plot to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, he faced the choice between his desires and his loyalty to the Emperor • Directed by Kihachi Okamoto; adapted by Shinobu Hashimoto from the 1965 book; starring Toshirô Mifune, Koshiro Matsu- moto {as Emperor Hirohito}, Sô Yamamura, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Shogo Shimada, Susumu Fujita, Rokko Toura, Yûnosuke Itô, Daisuke Katô, Etsushi Takahashi, Jun Tazaki, Takao Inoue & Nobuo Nakamura; won Kinema Junpo Award for Best Script
Animeigo widescreen b&w/color DVD [9/2006] for $26.99 full credits at IMDb |
 | based on the renowned history “Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi” [1965] by The Pacific War Research Society & Soichi Oya Kodansha Intl. 7½x5¼ pb [9/2002] for $13.57 Ballantine Books mass pb [9/93] out of print/used |
"Kronos, Ravager of Planets" [Fox April 1957] /tt0050610/
Aliens from another world send a huge robotic accumulator to invade the Earth and absorb all of the energy that it comes in contact with;
co-produced & directed by Kurt Neumann; starring Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence
http://www.amazon.com/Kronos-Jeff-Morrow/dp/6305944288/ letterbox
"Let's Face It!" propaganda film [U.S. Air Force 1954]
13½-minute civil defense film made by the U.S. Air Force Lookout Mountain Laboratory in Hollywood, California ('Project 95-1-54');
how to prepare and what to do 'when enemy bombers head for our cities' / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D6VTX_LBF8 [13.29]
"Lifting The Fog: The Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki"
[A.B.C. News/Maljack 1991]
 | Produced & directed by Allan Siegel
M.P.I. Home Video b&w/color DVD [11/2002] for $17.04 M.P.I. Home Video b&w/color VHS [2/95] out of prodn/used bare credits at IMDb |
"Living It Up" comedy musical [Paramount Pictures July 1954]
 | Technicolor™ remake of 1937 "Nothing Sacred" {see below} and the 1953 stageplay "Hazel Flagg"; an unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying of radiation poisoning in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York City • Directed by Norman Taurog; written by James Street, Ben Hecht, Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson; co-produced by & starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; music by Walter Scharf, 3 songs by Jules Styne; also starring Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sammy White, Sid Tomack, Sig Ruman, Richard Loo, Raymond Greenleaf, Walter Baldwin, Fay Roope, Art Baker, Stanley Blystone, Frank Branda, Frankie Darro, Franklyn Farnum, Fritz Feld, Eduard Franz, Kathryn Grant, Dabbs Greer, Jewel McGowan, Grady Sutton; special AT&SF Chief passenger train loaned for New Mexico scenes that were filmed in the Mojave desert
Paramount Home Video widescreen color DVD [9/2016] for $22.98 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch official trailer [1/2015 upload; 1:44] online at YouTube |
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