Top 30 Nuclear Bomb Scenes in Movies

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[@adamhoward1408]

Watchmen

[@Salman-z6r]

Beautiful,,

[@beccas.7762]

Definitely Sarah Connor's nightmare in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. I watched that movie when I was in middle school (mid-1990s), and it disturbed me almost as much as the scene in which that disgusting orderly licks her cheek right before she escapes from the psychiatric hospital.

[@RebecaGonzalez-ty2gf]

T2

[@jonathanhahn6955]

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[@novtek]

You cut one of Sarah Connor's best lines from the scene. - "Anyone not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a really bad day."

[@TerminalConstipation]

Get it!?!? These videos always cut the best shit. Because they are all shit.

[@CocoOPNY]

@@TerminalConstipation Why on earth are you here then?

[@TerminalConstipation]

@@CocoOPNY i'm here to downvote

[@sardoniclysane]

Bad fucking day

[@averycheesypotato]

@@TerminalConstipation watching & commenting kind of negates that…

[@axiom666]

Classic line, "Gentlemen you can't fight in here this is the war room".

[@frankgesuele6298]

Because that would be uncivilized😛

[@screamindeacon]

"We must not allow a mine-shaft gap."

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

​@@screamindeacon I don't even know wtf that's supposed to mean

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

​@@frankgesuele6298 Why yes-- yes it would be

[@captjim007]

Dr. Strangelove, spoof on Edward Teller. Russian Premier Kissoff, spoof on Khrushchev. General Jack Ripper, Major Kong, Col. 'Bat' Guano

[@davidponseigo8811]

My father was US Air Force Air Police attached to the Defense Atomic Support Agency from the late 1950's to 68 and was part of the command during the Cuban Missile Crisis and he said they fully expected to experience a Atomic Blast. He said we came closer than anyone really ever knows. It's a absolute miracle we are still here.

[@Ayrshore]

Nuclear deterrents work.

[@MSjackiesaunders]

@davidponseigo8811 That's true. Actually, it was true twice. Dad was MP and an officer. He had a NATO-critical job when we were in Germany. In 1960 and again during Bay of Pigs, things were pretty dicey.

[@kevinedwards6093]

Hey, so did mine. We lived 3 miles from the flight line…he said, if you hear the ‘sirens’ it’s probably over.💥

[@عبدالله-خ9ب1ج]

In American films, they always claim that the Russians will use nuclear weapons, and they forget that they are the only ones in human history to have used this weapon twice. This is called media misinformation, and perhaps after hundreds of years, future generations will believe that the Russians were the ones who bombed Japan, and perhaps even the Japanese themselves will believe that.

[@عبدالله-خ9ب1ج]

Your father survived but the Japanese didnt survive in ww2

[@JuliaL]

Threads scarred me as a 13 year old. The initial blast is bad enough, but the long term effects were horrific.

[@wilobrien9731]

I agree with you. Most of the movie dealt with the horrific aftermath, which was very disturbing.

[@johnjjohningtoniii2439]

@@wilobrien9731 Best ending ever. Can you imagine people in 1984 turning that shit off to go to bed? lol

[@minakomel]

well, it is known as one of the most horrific films ever made and it should be made watching compulsory to all world leaders along with "The Day After"...I've read that The Day After TV movie kind of changed Reagan's mind after watching it (only rumors though).

[@MrTexasDan]

@@minakomel Except Day After had Steve Guttenberg, who is possibly the world's worst actor, so it had a goofy comedy undertone.

[@nelliethursday1812]

I am 58 and it scares me to the core of my soul 😢😢😢

[@Michael_Knight823]

"The Day After's" nuclear attack scene is beyond effective when it comes to nightmare fuel.

[@jmburgess2003]

That movie still holds up today. I remember watching it back when it first aired and was a 2 night event.

[@vhagerty]

Everyone watched it and couldn't stop talking about it the next day at school. The thought of a blink of an eye death for everyone and everything you knew was the worst part about growing up in the Cold War. 😊

[@SensationalBanana]

@@vhagertyAnd now we are back to it. Humanity is a sick species.

[@Giratina575]

The day after was pretty good. But just in my opinion, threads beats it out

[@jamesthompson2065]

The Day After is a comedy compared to Threads.

[@jroak]

Threads for the story, T2 for the representation.

[@albertjewell1963]

Perfectly said, I was gonna loose my mine if either wasn't mentioned.

[@leoperidot482]

Mmmmm, how about ALIENS?

[@Daneelro]

Whoever put this together probably didn't watch Threads... because the bomb explosions scene is nowhere near the most harrowing in the film. Threads makes the point that those who died in the initial blast were the lucky ones, and what's really bad is the after-effects. And the representation of _those_ still stands up today.

[@chrislong3938]

Agreed, though I'd add the launch scenes from The Day After. Those shots from the football game scared the bejesus out of me when I first saw it in '83 and I was only 24 years old... just out of the Army!

[@leoperidot482]

@@chrislong3938 Everyone thought Reagan was a war monger and they knew he was senile.

[@MSjackiesaunders]

Terminator 2 gave me nightmares. I'm 74, so I grew up during the cold war, with sheltering under our school desks (one of the dumbest ideas EVER) as a reality. My dad was career military so I knew a lot more than the average kid, and more than most adults. It is a fear and dread that has followed me all my life. So many of these movies I avoided, but I did not realize that T2 had the scene in it. It was traumatizing for someone who actually lived through the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs.

[@majorprofit]

Although younger than you, born in the 70s, that is what gives those images the extra twist. I live in Sweden and knew that if it happened it didn’t matter if we were in the war or not we would be dead anyway. I watched Wargames very recently and when those projectiles from ussr were shown it still had the same effect as when I first watched the movie which was a deeply unsettling feeling.

[@trespire]

@@majorprofit I grew up in N.E. England in the late 70's and early 80's. If I recall, we would have had no longer than a 2 or 3 minute warning.

[@jackstrong879]

The idea of surviving a nuclear war is truly fiction. As a officer in the Army, the unit I commanded in Germany in the early 1970's was a priority 1 target for the Soviets at the time. We used to joke that if the war actually started we would climb on top of one of the munitions storage bunkers to watch the"LIGHT SHOW". We realized that we had zero chance of survival.

[@Acidwave88brah]

I’m 50 and that scene in t2 was like an ice cold bath of fear. I’ve never forgotten it

[@Mechknight73]

I was born in the early 70s. My earliest nuclear war movie was "The Day After." It affected me, but not as much as its BBC counterpart, "Threads." That one was set in Sheffield, UK. It shows the cold hard facts of nuclear war from the perspective of the military, civil defence and ordinary citizens up to 20 years later. It has made me not want to live through a nuclear war

[@aaronfreiboth2031]

The Day After was one of the most disturbing movies I saw as a young child. I was 8 when it aired on TV and still remember watching it

[@Hushey]

now watch threads. uncomparable.

[@leoperidot482]

Everyone thought Ronald Reagan a senile trigger happy kook. He wanted China and USSR to think that too. In hindsight Reagan was senile who probably should've been relieved of duty.

[@jboy55]

@@Hushey He's not 8 years old anymore. And its quite possible that both "Threads" and "The Day After" are both good impactful movies .

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

The Day After was more horrifying living in the States, because there was this feeling that was inevitable.

[@556guy4]

I saw it when I was in 3rd grade and living right across the road from the Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque. I was scared it would happen.

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

I was about to freak out because I didn't think you included "The Day After" but then, there it was! Absolute Masterpiece! But on visuals alone, T2!

[@EddieGaster]

Threads, The Day After, When the Wind Blows - all top-notch viewing in my opinion.

[@jamjardj1974]

Agreed. Alongside By Dawns Early Light.

[@MrSlartybartfast42]

To me, The Day After didn't really work as you could tell that they had thrown too much money at the sfx which even for 1983 looked rubbish. This is where Threads and the much earlier The War Game worked better as both productions spent more time showing the effects and not the cause.

[@EddieGaster]

@@MrSlartybartfast42 And with Threads, you get to see how the world is affected years after the attack.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@jamjardj1974 how about world war three...president tries his best to stop it but knows he can't...very disturbing ending...

[@justathought7221]

Threads. I saw it in England in school. We were made to watch it. I was never the same.

[@aldunlop4622]

It's one of the few movies I really struggle to get through. It's thoroughly unpleasant.

[@johnjjohningtoniii2439]

@@aldunlop4622 It has a really uplifting, happy ending though.

[@minakomel]

people say it is one of the most horrific movies ever done...goes well with "The Day After". Now I know what surviving a nuclear holocaust is and I rather die than being in one after watching the bits I found in youtube...

[@Thurgosh_OG]

We were made to watch in Scotland in the 80s too. Though I'd already seen it when it was shown on TV. Several of the girls got nauseous at parts of the film and one had to leave the room, to avoid fainting.

[@christopherholder9925]

@@johnjjohningtoniii2439 Indeed.

[@geoffk777]

Threads has to be the scariest and most depressing nuclear war movie ever. The special effects for the blasts aren't the absolute best, but it doesn't matter. The earlier BBC show "The Wat Game" (1966) is quite frightening as well, with a boy blinded by a blast.

[@Daneelro]

Also, I doubt the video maker really watched Threads, because the blasts aren't anywhere the most harrowing scene in that movie. The special effects for everything that comes after the blasts are just fine, even today.

[@jo.s7993]

'The War game' won the Oscar for best documentary feature in 1967. It is an incredible piece of film making for the time.

[@The-Cosmic-Hobo]

Yep, came looking in the comments for this one.

[@Arcturus572]

"The Michael Bayest of Michael Bay movies"... That line had me laughing hard!

[@JoshTolbertUrbana]

'Threads' is under-appreciated.

[@johnjjohningtoniii2439]

Overall, Threads is the only one which captures what nuclear war would be.

[@MrTexasDan]

yep, under-appreciated by everyone who did not see it.

[@krgkrg1]

What about ‘Special Bulletin’ which came out around the same time as ‘The Day After’ and was, I thought, superior. Directed by Edward Zwick and criminally underseen and underrated.

[@gmboy559]

I watched that one first-run, and it was, then and now, the most horrifying cinema I've experienced. "Threads" is a close second. "The Day After" was a theater movie of little visceral impact by comparison.

[@themagus5906]

Tough to find today. Keep your VHS and disc players. Streaming sucks.

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

The Day After was enough for me. I was 27 and didn't know exactly what I was afraid of. Then I found out.

[@royallison5307]

To me, The Day After was over -hyped by ABC.

[@garycovington9044]

Special Bulletin scared the hell out of me when I first saw it. Great movie!

[@tanjirouzumaki144]

Honestly I would've had terminator 2 at number 1... scientists have stated it's one of the best adaptations of a nuclear bomb

[@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan]

And? Dr. Strangelove is peak cinema. Who wouldn't put it at number 1.

[@doctorroboto5018]

I thought so as well when I got to number 2, but then saw what number 1 was and said "Yeah, I'm down with this". Strangelove was brilliant.

[@TalkingHands308]

@@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan Meh, the list is for top nuclear bomb scenes in movies. All of those clips shown in Dr. Strangelove we've all seen in documentaries and none of them really show how the bombs would look if dropped on an actual city. Terminator 2 put forth a very accurate representation of how the destruction would actually look in a city. Regardless of how you feel about the movies, I know nobody dares speak badly of classic movies like Dr. Strangelove or Citizen Kane, but I also think Terminator 2's nuclear bombing scene should have been number 1.

[@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan]

@@TalkingHands308 Now that someone explains it, I guess you're right.

[@Whisper_292]

I understand what you're saying, but Dr. Strangelove showed _actual_ nuclear explosions. Real trumps adaptation every time.

[@AndyS-A]

Remember watching Threads when it first aired. Absolutely terrifying because of how real and mundane it was.

[@EndingSimple]

also very terrifying because it went on to show what life would be like for the survivors a generation later. A life of bare medieval subsistence.

[@baladas8398]

"Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (full title) was Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece from 1964. I was 12 years old and it's hard to explain the impact it had at the time. It wasn't simply grim, it was dark humor at its finest. Peter Sellers, George C. Scott.

[@VeteranofthePsychicWars]

I prefer Failsafe. Much more realistic and heart wrenching.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@VeteranofthePsychicWars not sure that ending was believable....

[@bgibson135]

Reminds me of the feelings when I was in college in 1972. One thought was maybe we would be killed by a nuclear blast before we got our failing grades back from an exam. But, that never happens.

[@G.R.V-v4g]

Peter Sellers said it was his favorite movie he acted in.

[@mikestanley9176]

People who read The Sum of All Fears do no not acknowledge the existence of the movie.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

the book is good but overly long...the movie was better...Clancy always has to get some navy reference in there

[@ShelleyLevyMusic]

I get you but what a great first sequence

[@minrityreprt6302]

I totally agree.

[@trainglen22]

Agreed! The book is so much better!

[@bgibson135]

@@trainglen22 Reading the book can act in reverse. I liked Harry Bosch from the TV series but by the time I was only partially through reading the Bosch novels, I had learned to despise Harry. -- And the "The THING from another world" totally missed the core of the short story, "Halt Who Goes There," but the later re-makes caught the gist of the shapeshifting alien.

[@clarkpeters8273]

A single sound, the shrieking telephone in "Fail Safe", was absolutely shattering. People substituted their own fears of nuclear war, making the film far more terrifying than any special effects could ever accomplish.

[@downundarob]

24:12 - The Day After: When this aired in 1983, the movie played as per normal up until the attack scene, and then was uninterrupted (no commercial breaks) for the remainder.

[@TheCommenterDragon]

Barefoot Gen is one of my all time favorite Anime films! Because it's one of the few animated film to depict Japan during war times and because the story is based on the first hand accounts of an actual Hiroshima survivor IE Keiji Nakazawa.

[@40hup]

For me "grave of the fireflies" renders a better picture of an inside view of japanese society during WWII, but Barefoot Gen is also a very powerful anime.

[@TheCommenterDragon]

@@40hup And to think Barefoot Gen isn't the only anime film about the atomic bombings, There are others like " In This Corner of the World"

[@40hup]

@TheCommenterDragon "In This Corner of the World" also has a very strong impression of the atomic bomb - it's just a bright light and a single shingle falling from the roof of the protagonists' house, and a distant view of the strange mushroom cloud some valleys away. Only later, when survivors from Hiroshima arrive, and later still when the heroine goes to Hiroshima after the war and picks up an orphaned child, do they learn the full impact of the bomb. It's all indirect impressions, not the emphasis on the blast and the radiation. A very unique and powerful perspective on the bomb.

[@longrider42]

@@TheCommenterDragon Wow, I'm glad I am not the only one who knows about the movie "In This Corner of the World" Its a very good movie, and covers what happens till after the way.

[@TheCommenterDragon]

@@longrider42 Well I've also seen another Anime film about the atomic bombings, Like there's one called "Nagasaki 1945 - The Angelus Bells."

[@TheCatBilbo]

At 13 I watched the BBC 'Threads' film. This was 1984 & the nuclear threat was horribly real. Even now, it's a difficult, dark watch. Next day at school you could tell other people had seen it, without asking! There was a really weird atmosphere, as if everyone had suddenly realised the horror that could happen.

[@wyldhowl2821]

Yup. That was the best of the 1980's nuke films. None of this "but our way of life shall somehow go on" bullshit.

[@BigBubbaloola]

@@wyldhowl2821 Yep, bleak simply doesn't cover it. When The Wind Blows is simply heartbreaking. Threads is simply devastating.

[@Daneelro]

I watched it sometime in the 1990s, without knowing anything about it in advance. It was still effective. Its meticulous focus on what comes _after_ the initial destruction, and how all the plans for survival unravel, is what's really unnerving. The Day After is an optimistic film with a happy ending in comparison.

[@MrHws5mp]

Yep. Some time after that, our relentlessly optimistic "jolly hockey-sticks" biology teacher came in with a cast on her arm. Turned out that she'd hurt herself while her and her husband had been digging a fallout shelter in their garden. One of the boys asked "why?" "Well, in case there's a nuclear war, of course!" She replied. "No," he replied, "I mean, why do you want to survive it?" Taken aback, she asked who else in the class felt the same way. _Everybody's_ hand went up. We hadn't discussed it in advance at all: 20-odd 16-year old boys had just quietly decided for themselves that they'd rather die in the attack than face the aftermath. She went a bit quiet after that. Me and my equally military-tech obsessed friend used to joke that given enough warning, we'd go into the middle of the nearest city and try to identify the incoming warhead in the ultimate plane-spot...

[@johnjjohningtoniii2439]

I think people really underrate how "real" the threat is now.

[@gjhoward]

If nuclear bomb scenes in TV shows were to make the list, Jericho and Fallout would certainly be on it. But I am glad to see that The Day After and Threads made this list. Both of which are terrifying even by today's standards. Also, T2 is one of my favorite movies ever and the nuclear dream sequence is haunting.

[@wyldhowl2821]

Jericho felt like the bastard child of The Day After. Fallout is some great stuff.

[@rafaelamadeus5155]

Fallout is a video games, lol.

[@gjhoward]

@@rafaelamadeus5155 It's also a tv series on Amazon (based on the video game). It's quite good if you haven't seen it yet.

[@richardhoehn9922]

Yuppers, Jericho was good!

[@richardhoehn9922]

Early in American Horror Story: Apocalypse, there's a nuke sequence...shown from a plane, as I recall.

[@rhondawentzell6959]

Threads is still the most disturbing & scary movie I’ve ever seen.

[@40hup]

There is another very realistic Movie from the UK about nuclear war and its aftermath, and that's "war game" from 1966, made by Peter Watkins as a pseudo-documentary (which was his style for several later movies, like "punishment park"). War game is low budget and black and white, but it is very intense and realistic about the breakdown of society after all out nuclear war and the futility of civil defense plans. It was also banned from british Television for several years, and was released alternatively in select theaters.

[@richardvernon317]

BBC finally showed it in August 1985 as part of a series of programs about the 40th Anniversary of the first use of Nukes.

[@williamanderson5437]

1005 AGREE. Watkins only made another documentry, about the battle of Cullodon, where the Scottish Jacobite Rebellion is ended. The Battlesite is well worth a visit, 20 miles East of Inverness, take in a tour of nearby Fort George too - highly recommended,

[@frankpienkosky5688]

some say even a small regional war would have global consequences....ala"On The Beach"

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@williamanderson5437 picture a wild Scottish charge like in Braveheart....then picture the other side with cannons...

[@jo.s7993]

It won the 'Oscar' for best documentary feature in 1967. It was incredible, & deserved it.

[@steevidrums]

I saw Threads when I was about 7 years, it prevented me from sleeping for weeks. It's probably the most scared I have ever been watching anything in my life. Bear in mind, on the news each day was the constant fear pushed on us as the Soviet Union and US and its Western allies butted heads.

[@Bwana6274]

You missed the best one of all... the multiple nukes in “Silent Running” with Bruce Dern

[@vikj1255]

Yes!

[@patkennedy2620]

Brilliant movie

[@Kitty-CatDaddy]

I was 10 or so when that movie came out. The end where the lone drone has to care for the habitat all alone had me crying my eyes out. I didn't care for the humans, but it upset me the drone was left alone without even the gimpy drone to keep him company.

[@kurtbader9711]

Huey, Duey and Louie. Saving humanity.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

nukes in space behave differently...no sound...no real blast wave....somebody forgot to tell hollywood

[@jtjr26]

The scene in Terminator 2 is my favorite. Mainly because its not real but Sarah's nightmare and really shows her motivation for trying to stop Judgement Day. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

[@davidwright8432]

The few make the fate; the majority suffer it.

[@vikj1255]

Great list. Loved By dawns early light, Failsafe, Day after tomorrow, Threads, T2 and T3. All classics.

[@sirbletchley]

I thank God that I never saw Threads as a child. The Day After was bad enough for nightmare fuel. Threads details not only the horrors at the moment of impact, but also the complete breakdown of society in the aftermath.

[@TheCatBilbo]

Threads is uniquely bleak & gritty. It's fantastic in its production & like you say, follows through to a horrifying future. It's unusual in that & why I think it's so good.

[@wyldhowl2821]

@@TheCatBilbo Typical British approach to it, just pure horror to slap you in the face with. No "but life goes on" BS - more like "living through the attack is actually worse than dying in it".

[@wyldhowl2821]

I did, but hey I was a Gen X 80's kid, so this sort of thing was our movies, our music, our politics, everything. The Cold War ending was like no longer being held hostage. ... And now we're all back to that in "Cold War II - "Now It's Personal", only with a population that just doesn't get it.

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

​@@wyldhowl2821I think we've had very similar experiences growing up.

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

​@@wyldhowl2821We danced to 99 Luftballoons.

[@feldhdleh]

I've watched T2 25 times over the years. That scene still gives me palpitations. I think it is perhaps the single most gut-wrenching, visceral and effective thing (in the nature of story-telling things we are talking about here) I have seen. Linda's acting in this entire desert sequence, during and after the scene, as she then quickly decides what she has to do, is fantastic too!

[@Simwebby]

The Wargame (1966) The sirens go off. Everyone knows that an attack is imminent. There's a sudden silent flash. Everyone, including children, are blinded and left with their hands to their eyes, crying in pain. So terrifying it was banned for years. Still can't forget seeing it today.

[@themagus5906]

"The War Game" was probably to old for most people nowadays to remember. It was a great film, and was banned from the BBC just after it was filmed for being too traumatic, until finally being shown almost 20 years later. I first saw it in 1980 at an anti-nuke church group. "Oh, where are you coming from, soldier, gaunt soldier, With weapons beyond any reach of my mind, With weapons so deadly the world must grow older And die in its tracks, if it does not turn kind?"

[@cateclism316]

"This is how the last three minutes of peace will look." A terrifying scene.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@themagus5906 we're still killer apes...we've just gotten better at it...

[@BreandanOCiarrai]

I am beginning to agree with Jim Butcher- someone famous or powerful somewhere along the way accidentally mixed up "devastated" (total destruction) with "decimated" (destruction of only 10%), and no one wanted to correct them and instead people mimicked it, perpetuating that mix-up for decades on end.

[@minrityreprt6302]

That always bugs the hell out of me as well.

[@Jams848484]

I could be wrong but I believe the term originated from a punishment for Roman legions. If a legion displeased the emperor for whatever reason, he could order them to be decimated - meaning 1 out of every 10 soldiers would be executed. Sure it's only 1 out of 10, but the word still evokes the same sense of dread & fear that it would have back then.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Whatever your thoughts about the fridge nuke sequence from _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ are, it and _Terminator 2: Judgement Day_ have incredible nuke scenes.

[@TheCatBilbo]

Oh yes, the moment Indiana realises where he is & what all of the creepy mannequins are there for, is bottom clenching!

[@jean-mi1825]

I agree

[@emergencyrapidresponseteam7181]

Indiana Jones could survive a nuclear explosion for he chosen wisely.

[@Wyvernphotos]

Nuking the fridge is the new jumping the shark.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@TheCatBilbo check out "Split Second"..(TCM?)....where the bad guys decide the best place to hideout is a nuclear test site...

[@kenhallermd8897]

Great list. One film I would add is "Special Bulletin" a 1983 American TV movie directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz. The film is presented from the perspective of a news broadcast on the fictional RBS television network detailing a terrorist plot to set off a nuclear bomb in Charleston, SC. The detonation of the bomb is mostly suggested by frantic handheld camera work and a sudden loss of picture and sound to the network. Recorded on videotape rather than film, it had remarkable and chilling verisimilitude, so much so that it is one of the few times in my life when I have woken in the middle of the night convinced that the events of a movie that I had just seen really happened. Airing within months of "The Day After," it did not get the attention that the brilliant Nicholas Meyer film received, but for me it was even more chilling.

[@kennethprocak5176]

Not many would even have heard of Threads. Do yourself a favour and watch it.

[@johnpotter8039]

We settled into our theater seats to watch "Testament". The first scene, with William Devane and his son riding up a hill, rang a bell, and then.....uh, oh......they stopped at the stone gates of the old Carter Estate , 3 blocks from the house I grew up in, in Sierra Madre, CA. I suffered through the film, scene by scene, having been in many of the houses used for the location shots. I had been the janitor in the Church of the Ascension, where they filmed the town meeting. I had bought gas at the Shell station that Mako owned.. It was incredibly difficult for me to watch that movie, seeing my hometown in the aftermath of nuclear war. Writing this, more than 40 years after I saw the movie, still gives me the chills.

[@brianmorgan2744]

There is one movie you didn't include on this list, and that was the tv movie Special Bulletin, which aired on March 20, 1983. I remember watching it and for awhile, wondered if it were real, the way the whole movie played out. Check it out. It definitely should have been on this list!

[@themagus5906]

Tough to find nowadays, but there are copies on VHS if you have a player. I have one. Warner Brothers released it briefly on DVD; the few extant copies go for a couple hundred dollars. I always wondered why; just like the TV movie "Shadow on the Land". They seem to be deliberately buried by history.

[@Chris_Silverhaze]

I'd recommend 'When The Wind Blows' a 1986 British adult animated disaster film, directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' graphic novel of the same name. The bomb dropping scene is very moving, as is the rest of the entire film tbh.

[@wyldhowl2821]

Basis of an epic Iron Maiden song too, I think.

[@MrHws5mp]

It's in the video.

[@NatoBro]

It's at 10:54 in this video.

[@joshuabates7424]

Empire of the Sky was one of my favorite movies as a kid, watched it dozens of times!

[@J_Stamps86]

Threads has always stuck with me, mostly because I'm from Sheffield where it was set and having been born in the 80's it's the Sheffield of my childhood being hit by a nuclear strike.

[@Ayrshore]

Could cause millions of pounds of improvements.

[@scottbuckley823]

Threads is the only one for the top choice. scary as hell because it's only half way through the movie.

[@Northern_Frost]

A great line up of mostly well done clips of “the End”. The overall best movie Nuclear Themed for me was “Threads”. I remember watching it when it was broadcast, it scared the crap out of me. Years later they issued it on BlueRay. I ordered it wondering if 40 years later it would still hold the same shock value. It does, it is one of the most realistic depictions of both a Nuclear war and (more importantly) the long after effect of those just trying to survive.

[@allycatblues2770]

Had a feeling that was gunna be #1. That scene is so iconic.

[@seanhammond9253]

This was perfect; thank you. The range of films, the details you call out, the variety... how The Bomb can mean different things depending on the context but how it is always a "sovereign power" whos might never fails to both awe and frighten us. Well done. 👍 And again, thanks of the variety; I love movies and am almost 50, but 6 of those I had never heard of before. I would add "Battlefield Earth" to the list at #31, lol.

[@jamesrizza2640]

The day after was perhaps the scariest movie I saw in the eighties. I think they should remake it for today. It seems we need a reminder of the horrors of this kind of war or any war for that matter.

[@Jeff_Vader]

Have you seen "Threads"?

[@jamesrizza2640]

Yes but something about the day after just got to me. Good movie as well.

[@Jeff_Vader]

@@jamesrizza2640 It may have got to you but if you've seen both, you know that as a film Threads is far more horrific in its portrayal from before the war starts until 12 years after. American films have to have "hope" n them because american audiences cant cope watching a film that has a nihilistic ending.

[@leoperidot482]

I dont think that would work today. There's too many kooks that want to destroy the world or set it on fire, so all that would do is embolden them. They would see it as biblical armageddon.

[@amkrause2004]

It definitely does the job for sure.

[@maxheadrom3088]

Spilberg's best film - that kid is J.J. Ballard who wrote the book that David Cronenberg made into the film "Crash". "Through The Looking Glass" is excellent - made for TV and available on KZbin. "Testament" is well regarded as well - I've never watched it, though. "Threads" is also very good - it's a slightly lighter version of Peter Watkins' "The War Game". Watkin's film - also for the BBC - was suspended from being broadcasted in 1965 but finally went into the airwaves after Threads aired - it took only 20 years! Great List - loved the animations!!! "The War Game" should be there, though.

[@DonLoco3]

I remember watching "The Day After" as a teenager and man did it hit hard then. Watching Threads and knowing there are missiles that contain 80mt per is all the more nightmarish.

[@lunsmann]

Be comforted with the knowledge there has never been a 80MT nuclear device. The largest test was the Russian 50MT. The largest deployed device was 4MT. Most modern nukes are in the 300 kilo tonne range (still 20 times more powerful than the devices used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). However, even still it really doesn't matter as any target will be bracketed by multiple devices anyway. Those of us not near a target zone will still be fucked because such a war will end all fuel deliveries globally and the surviving populations won't have any food in the local shops soon after.

[@DonLoco3]

@@lunsmann 50MT is half of what they were going with originally but the creator of said bomb was nervous and therefore halved the yield. The blast still far exceeded their expectations. Still the regular 10MT warheads that are cluster like per missile are more than enough to do the job. If those things start flying around, kiss it goodbye, Fallout will look like a lush paradise afterward.

[@lunsmann]

@@DonLoco3 - Yes. Aware of the Tsar Bomba story. The lead scientist halved the tritium at the last moment. You are right with the mirv warheads, up to 16 individual warheads on a single missile. This is why it's important to only elect sane people into government. Nobody wins a nuclear war. Maybe sub- Saharan nations will rise to the fore after because everyone who dominates now will be irradiated hellholes. I hope we never get to find out.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@lunsmann yeah, that original "Tsar Bomba" was supposed to be 100MT....but they finally decided a good portion of the blast would be lost into space so they scaled it down...nearly killed the flight crew that dropped it...scared the hell out of our people though when they realized it was deployable

[@allandavis8201]

This whole episode is excellent, thank you for compiling it and your opinions about the cinematography etc, however from a personal perspective I think Threads is the most powerfully crafted and realistic, the actual blast isn’t the best but the switching of focus onto the people caught in the open and their reactions is something other films didn’t get quite right.

[@daigriffiths399]

Threads at no.1, When The Wind Blows at no.2. No other country in the world can make films like the Brits when it comes to showing the impact of external events on helpless people. Threads gave me nightmares for a while and When The Wind Blows made me cry with helplessness the whole way through. I'm male and not afraid to admit that. The Day After, although very good, could have done without the hopeful ending. IMO it would have been a far better film without it. Someone else commented that when Threads was shown on the BBC, the following day at school you could tell who'd seen it and who hadn't. He/she is not wrong, only for me in 1984 I was in full time work and the effect was the same on my work colleagues.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

"Testament" is another one that will tear at your heartstrings...people watching their kids put on a play knowing they all were going to die....having to bury them in the backyard...very sad...

[@micp0760]

They could have cut out the semi-hopeful ending from The Day After because there won't be any reason for hope for anyone anywhere after such an attack. Purely done not to leave people with hopelessness, but it should have been done that way.✌️💙

[@---Rin---]

T2 scene should be #1. I remember reading how scientists praised it for its accuracy. I was very young when I first saw T2 and that scene has stayed with me ever since.

[@66KIMBLE]

Tv film Special Bulletin (1983) was pretty intense.

[@CramwellJr]

I dubbed that onto my first VCR. Intense and worse yet, believable.

[@casinodelonge]

@@CramwellJr really decent show that was.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@casinodelonge if you really want to see these things close up take a trip to the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio....many of them on display there....some in cross-section

[@markduffy5773]

Thank you for pointing out Barefoot Gen. Fabulous movie that gives an excellent insight into the atomic bomb drops in Japan from a new perspective.

[@calibri1182]

Miracle Mile (1988) a nice guilty pleasure of a film.

[@garycovington9044]

Even though it's a great film, it doesn't show any nukes going off so I don't think that really qualifies.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@garycovington9044 On the Beach is another great nuclear war film, with no nukes seen, to watch.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

we originally had a plan to use nuclear bombs to propel spaceships...in theory it would have worked...see something like that in "Deep Impact"...another unsettling film...

[@MasterJediDude]

I dig the movie, but by the end you want to beat his girlfriend upside her head. Mere Wenningham was so annoying in that movie and she screws up their chance to escape.

[@johncapewell7520]

I remember True Lies for a very different scene 😂. As a young boy it was my favourite scene of all time 😂.

[@JoReGr]

Threads should of been number 1

[@lycanth1990]

1-10 you mean, no need for any other depiction. Truly terrifying!

[@Puzzoozoo]

The girl at the end who was born after the war has fillings in her teeth. Nice to know a NHS Dentist survived a nuclear war. lol

[@gidbeckgidbeck7212]

I've never been able to watch the whole movie again. Nor would I want to. Sometimes I have revisited clips from the film to remind me of the abject horror; Threads is probably the most harrowing , depressing and upsetting film one might see. I once worked in a small film theatre and Threads was shown one evening, The audience sat in deathly silence throughout and I recall seeing people crying as they watched. Even remembering this film is upsetting.

[@vernonsmithee792]

Seeing "Threads" once is more than enough. Terrifying.

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

​@@gidbeckgidbeck7212Even thinking about it.

[@MrCaveman74]

I really thought the early scene from Fallout would've gotten at least an honorable mention. To see the fear in the daughters eyes as first cloud rises had me shook. "Is it your thumb, or mine?" Very well done sequence.

[@develynseether4426]

Maybe they'll do a top TV scenes clip as there are more worth mentioning than just Fallout because it is new.

[@mperronwolo]

You left off the most nightmarish one. The beginning of the movie Dreamscape

[@MasterJediDude]

Thank you! That one sequence in the beginning really creeped me out.

[@AlyssaM_InfoSec]

The day after will stick with me forever because I saw that as a kid and it freaked me out. One other one you could have included here was "Special Bulletin". The blast scene wasn't maybe the most elaborate, but the reactions of everyone after, especially the reporter asking the camera man if the radiation is going to come now is truly chilling.

[@SC457A]

The Day After gave me nightmares for years. I was 11 at the time.

[@kymmkam73]

Same here! I had night terrors also and even had to leave our local fair because I was so afraid I was gonna see a mushroom cloud!

[@vhagerty]

I just posted about the emergency sirens still giving me chills. I'm immediately taken back to being a child during the Cold War.

[@OneofInfinity.]

@@vhagerty I felt saver back then as a kid that current day with the lunatics calling the shots.

[@jboy55]

The images of people turning into skeletons haunted my 7 year old self for weeks. Even when I first rewatched the movie 20+ years later, my heart raced.

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

​@@jboy55You shouldn't have watched it.

[@welcometothemovies9157]

That Scott Glenn in Countdown to Looking Glass

[@ApocGuy]

Countdown to looking glass is quite disturbing for sure. I have another one (well, two, but one is more of an audio only); The last broadcast and fictionalized BBC special report

[@frankpienkosky5688]

everybody seems to have forgotten "The Bedford incident"....and what can happen at sea

[@brianwhedon8442]

Countdown to Looking Glass actually scared a lot of people because it aired on cable TV uninterrupted and people thought it was a real news channel broadcast. If you did not see the beginning you did not realize you were watching a work of fiction.

[@NavyEnto]

Hardly ever see Miracle Mile on these lists.

[@ortizmo]

I don't think we ever saw the explosions in Miracle Mile, but we definitely saw the missile trails. That and the breakdown of society in Los Angeles were frightening enough. I watched it in '92 and still remember how much trouble I had sleeping that night.

[@NavyEnto]

@@ortizmo yea, had trouble myself, but not as much as The Day After when it aired.

[@robison87]

My mom used to have that movie and so I watched it a decent many times. It is a good movie.

[@wornoutwrench8128]

Can't remember what year it was, I was working an afternoon shift. I got home sometime around 1 am, grabbed a beer and turned the TV on to relax a bit before bed. I had never seen Count Down to Looking Glass before, flipping through the channels and hit what I though was a news broadcast about the tensions growing. I thought it was real, it scared the living daylights out of me. I couldn't figure out what was going on, flipped the channels and not a single other channel had anything on about war breaking out. I must have went on for a good 10 minutes before a commercial break and they then returned to the "movie" As a kid in the 60's and 70's, doing all the nuke drills in school and such it was such a trigger. I didn't sleep that night, I couldn't sleep that night. I have done some crazy things in my 67 years but that was the most scared I think I ever was.

[@taotaoliu2229]

The nuke scene from Terminator 2 gave me nightmares!

[@robertbissonnette4411]

I don't know if you ever saw the movie damnation valley it came out in 1977 it's on KZbin the movie gave a lot of people nightmares

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

​@@robertbissonnette4411The scene in the command center as they tick off the cities after they're hit was just God awful. I was 11 and to this day I remember hearing "Charlotte.." and I'd never heard of it. As soon as I got home I looked it up in my encyclopedia. I thought that was a small city to bomb Now I know that each side targets every city with 100k or more. Also every state/provincial capital and every nuclear reactor plus more I don't remember. That's at least 400 MRV ICBMS and whatever each of us sends from subs. What's left? Who the hell would want to survive that?

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@scott-robertshenkman4130 "just making the rubble bounce"...Colon Powell

[@Zholobov1]

You forgot "Twin Peaks. The Return" 2017, the famous 8th episode with the fantastic fly-through the mashroom cloud scene. One of the best nuclear blast scenes in the cinema history.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“In Japan you were a metaphor for nuclear war, but in Hollywood they left your balls in the cutting room floor!” King Kong Thanos: You’re a pencil pushing Terran and ho never learned to love his bomb.

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

As a boy during the Cold War, both The Day After and Testament had a real impact on me. I envisioned them to be exactly how bleak such a future would be. I imagine those who saw Threads in their youth felt the same way.

[@krasskswg]

"Countdown to Looking Glass" - I remember watching that when I was a kid, but didn't remember what the name was.

[@ninjabiatch101]

"Are we gonna die?" "Yep." God I love that movie. Lol

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

The Indiana movie and fridge. Don't explain how he got the fridge to unlock and let him out. In Hollywood, that scene was considered so bad the expression, "Jumping the shark" became "nuking the fridge."

[@christopherweber4745]

Touch of comic relief can help drama. The fridge was farce to full military power. For me this was immersion breaking. I'm forced back into a movie theater watching some escapist entertainment. But forgivable. To steal, roll, and mutilate from Abraham Lincoln ... You can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time.

[@kurtbader9711]

Excellent list. In terms of personal impact, Terminator 2 takes the cake. Dr. Strangelove was an epic movie, but the explosions at the end are somewhat whimsical as opposed to shocking, although if you think about it they're equally terrifying. The Terminator 2 thing is more graphic and immediately more horrific.

[@brendascott2481]

The nuclear sequence that has stuck with me is the scenes in Jericho (2006 - 2008)

[@develynseether4426]

I really enjoyed that show. Today it might do better because it's all about post-apocalypse today but at the time it was deemed too depressing by many viewers.

[@StsFiveOneLima]

It should be on this list.

[@develynseether4426]

@StsFiveOneLima no it shouldn't despite the accuracy and awesomeness of it because this is bomb scenes in movies but a worthy mention would have been good of tv show ones like Jericho and 24

[@boogie153]

The day after will remain in my mind, cause in 1983 i was 16 when we saw with the school in cinema. It was really horrifying because the "maybe it could happen tomorrow" was so real that we've been shocked, i remember no one was laughing after the film and we've been very quiet walking back to school. In the movie, the war starts in Germany, were i'm living, so it was for us a very possible and threating thing which could really happen.

[@footballskatemom]

Terminator 2 was striking and terrifying but the Day After gave me trauma I still carry. The bombing was the easiest part to watch.

[@Daneelro]

You haven't seen Threads. (Nor did the WatchMojo video editor, I think.)

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

Both are horrific and I still carry that trauma today. I still sometimes feel like any second..🔆

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@Daneelro British guy here and while Threads is the superior film for telling what happens for the next 20 years of aftermath, The Day After was much better at the actual explosion visuals. Combined those 2 are 'The Nuclear films'.

[@nathieboy1987]

24 had two nuclear explosions - one in season 2 and the other in season 6. Whilst season 2 had the emotional feels, season 6's was more terrifying with Valencia being decimated.

[@develynseether4426]

Unfortunately TV show so doesn't make the list otherwise you could add ones like Jericho and Fallout but yes the Valencia bomb was more terrifying even for non-Americans as it was an ordinary suburb in an ordinary state.

[@nathieboy1987]

@ oh I know this one was about movies, eventually they’ll do one about tv shows and I’m just getting in there with a suggestion lol Boy Scouts “be prepared” lol

[@Meower68]

The little boy in "The Empire of the Sun" has done ok. His name: Christian Bale.

[@wyldhowl2821]

Empire Of The Sun, Terminator Salvation, and The Dark Knight Rises. What is it with Christian Bale and nukes?

[@jamjardj1974]

Witnessed three nuclear explosions too, in his career😂

[@jamjardj1974]

@@wyldhowl2821Patrick Bateman stepped up his murderous tendencies!

[@geoffoldread7684]

Captain Obvious has arrived, everybody!

[@kevinroche3334]

@@jamjardj1974 By the way...they're not real in the movies.

[@fritzthedog007]

The lady making the beds in "The Day After." Great acting.

[@IvanAtanassov1]

The T2 is absolute number one nuclear masterpiece, and Day After Tommorrow shocked as second.

[@rafaelamadeus5155]

@@IvanAtanassov1 "The Day After" bro. The Day After Tomorrow is a disaster film taking place when the world was in "Ice Age".

[@emergencyrapidresponseteam7181]

Dr Strangelove will always be Number 1. It is a timeless classic and best Nuclear War movie ever made.

[@rafaelamadeus5155]

@@emergencyrapidresponseteam7181 Fallout is still one of the best Nuclear War sci-fi works ever made, though it's only made in the video games and the recent live-action TV adaptation.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@rafaelamadeus5155 believe there was a book that came out much earlier and had a nuclear war theme

[@paulrandig]

As a child of the seventies/eighties, I felt a huge relief in 1989 when this permanent pressure finally was lifted from us. And for a decade or so, it really seemed that mankind had learned their lesson...

[@niklasmolen4753]

We had a decade of happy days, when future optimism was high.

[@jmburgess2003]

There were 2 you missed. World War Z had a really good one, especially because you weren't expecting it at all. The second one was another made for TV movie called Special Bulletin about a terrorist bomb threat in Charleston SC. It was done War of the Worlds style through news reports until the end.

[@DrVesuvius70]

Can't believe they missed Special Bulletin off this list. I believe it won an Emmy when it was made in 1983. It's lurking somewhere on KZbin if anyone wants to check it out.

[@jmburgess2003]

Probably because it wasn't nearly as well known as The Day After, though I think Special Bulletin is more suspenseful. Really showed the possible terrorist side to nuclear weapons.

[@flashover2362]

@@DrVesuvius70 Nominated for 7, won 4. I put a link to the IMDB article on it in my comment (before I went looking through the rest of them 🙂 )

[@DrVesuvius70]

@@jmburgess2003 I think they could have dropped ID4 or Avengers from the list, as while there may have been nuclear explosives involved, the scenes were more about big-ass spaceships blowing up than the nukes themselves. Nice to see the BBC's Threads make what I assume is an American compiled list. Our counterpart to The Day After really captured the fear we grew up with in the shadow of the Four Minute Warning.

[@cskiller86]

I came to the comments to see if anyone mentions Special Bulletin. That movie really scarred me, especially the scene with the anchors crying in the studio after the bomb is detonated.

[@Merlin-gu9nz]

We were shown Threads and When the wind blows in school still send a chill up my spine to this day

[@nostarg4]

You didn't include The War Game, the original Threads that was considered too terrifying at the time for viewers and was only shown in cinemas.

[@TheCatBilbo]

Was about to say the same - it's of its time & they obviously didn't have the budget of others, but it's horrifying in clever ways. I know at the time it was genuinely terrifying, my Dad saw it back then.

[@richardvernon317]

@@TheCatBilbo The War Game was the first one I saw in early 1983, it was shown at my school. The Day After was shown in December 1983 in the UK and Threads in the September of 1984. Threads was repeated in August 1985 and the War Game was shown on TV for the first time as well.

[@johnbeckman492]

I saw it in high school film class in '77 and was depressed afterwards for several days.

[@indigohammer5732]

Er.... Threads was never shown in cinemas, nor was it originally released in cinemas. It was a BBC Television programme

[@richardvernon317]

@@indigohammer5732 What we are talking about is "The War Game" a 1966 BBC DocoDrama about a Nuclear Attack on the UK. The BBC management were so horrified when they saw it that it was banned from being shown on TV until the year after Threads was Broadcast. The War Game was shown in cinemas in the late 1960's.

[@sparkie13743]

countdown to looking glass was freaking amazing and i forgot all about it until now

[@kevinkunkel9444]

In Independence Day, the aliens' explosions were far more interesting than the bomb drop.

[@Jolazo-Music]

Okay until you revealed #1, I was convinced that T2 would have been #1. But in all honesty I cannot argue with your #1 pick. It's spot on.

[@msardy6423]

Just watched Threads. Unrelenting agony. What is not portrayed, your imagination fills in.

[@fritzthedog007]

Also, the only song on British radio was "Johnny B. Goode," apparently.

[@KHWendy28]

Thank you for No 20 American Assassin is an underrated gem too me and man it was so great that scene.

[@SensationalBanana]

Agreed!! Great action flick!

[@deeacosta2734]

Threads is incredible.

[@TheAngryAstronaut]

You guys picked the perfect #1! Bravo!!! And talk about the research required for some of these selections. Well done indeed!

[@LadiesmanB007]

Godzilla Minus One has arguably one of the most accurate atomic bomb scenes. While not technically an actual bomb (it’s Godzilla’s atomic breath) the resulting explosion is basically what an atomic bomb does, complete with the back blast and devastation.

[@themagus5906]

That movie rocked; even beating "Shin Godzilla". You had to see it in the theater.

[@LadiesmanB007]

@@themagus5906 saw both of those in theaters

[@ScottyColoradoKid]

I was 10 years old watching Fail Safe in 1964...that ending has stayed with me this whole time...horrific...remember we were doing atomic bomb drills in the classrooms; drop & cover...Then it was a relief to see it made into a comedy with Dr Strangelove....

[@djwho75]

When the wind blows>grave of the fireflies

[@alexanderleach3365]

The nuke scenes of Wolverine and Sum of All Fears are the most thrilling.

[@beefyoso]

as a little kid the day after scared the absolute shit out of me. but I felt better when I realized that because I lived just a few miles away from a major target, if it happened I'd never know it.

[@racing2cat]

Funny - that's exactly how I felt. Was living 1 mile outside the gate of Eglin AFB in FL and so decided (as a 14 yr old) that I didn't have to worry about it since Eglin would be sure to be hit. And again thought the same thing when I moved to Colorado and lived in the vicinity of NORAD. Weird how our minds work.

[@amkrause2004]

I know the feeling. I lived at Minot AFB, where the missile crew was filmed.

[@beefyoso]

@@racing2cat I grew up in Colorado Springs.

[@racing2cat]

@@beefyoso I'm in Louisiana now and miss CO every single day

[@racing2cat]

@@amkrause2004 The ND home of the Minutemen, right?

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

Threads, the build up, the impact and following 2nd and 3rd generation impacts was brutal. It underscored there were only losers and there would continue to be only losers.

[@POPINCONEJO88]

how did Watchmen not make the list?

[@slowodanx]

cause its trash

[@fernandoestebanzunigaandra8088]

I agree. Even though it wasn´t a nuclear attack scene, the Ozzymandias device was utterly destructive.

[@ericvandruten]

the traumatizing effect that Sarah Connor's dreams had on her added to the power of the nuclear blast scene. She was so raw and gritty throughout the film, seeing her die in her own dream came as a shock (conventionally, characters wake up just before death in a dream).

[@Macs_TCG_82009]

I understand this is for movies but Jericho tv show did it well I think

[@rafaelamadeus5155]

@@Macs_TCG_82009 The new Fallout TV series, as well. It's crazy to see the fact Los Angeles was hit by the nukes during one of the scene, just like T2.