Posts Tagged ‘nuclear-war’

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | George C. Scott | Sterling Hayden | Keenan Wynn | Slim Pickens | Peter Bull | James Earl Jones | Tracy Reed | Jack Creley | Frank Berry | Robert O'Neil | Glenn Beck | Roy Stephens
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Watchmen (2009)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Danny Woodburn | Apollonia Vanova | Nhi Do | Tony Ali | Jay Brazeau | Chris Burns | Billy Crudup | Matt Drake | Ron Fassler | Matt Frewer | L. Harvey Gold | Matthew Goode
Directors: Zack Snyder
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A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Roddy McDowall | Kim Hunter | Bradford Dillman | Natalie Trundy | Eric Braeden | William Windom | Sal Mineo | Albert Salmi | Jason Evers | John Randolph | Harry Lauter | M. Emmet Walsh | Roy Glenn | Peter Forster | Norman Burton
Directors: Don Taylor
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The third chapter of the Apes saga. Two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius and Zira travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities — until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives!

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Nick Stahl | Claire Danes | Kristanna Loken | David Andrews | Mark Famiglietti | Earl Boen | Moira Harris | Chopper Bernet | Christopher Lawford | Carolyn Hennesy | Jay Acovone | M.C. Gainey | Susan Merson | Elizabeth Morehead
Directors: Jonathan Mostow
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More than 10 years after ‘Terminator 2′, John Connor now exists only as a drifter - living ‘off the grid’, so no more Terminators from the future can hunt him down. Unfortunately, SkyNet does send another one back - and this one is called the T-X, even more powerful & advanced than the dreaded T-1000. However, another CSM-101 Terminator is also sent back to protect John against the T-X. Now, Skynet is patiently assuming control of civilian computer systems, under the guise of a computer virus. John has also met his future wife, Kate Brewster, whose father - a U.S. Air Force General - is in charge of the military computer systems & is leery of up linking SkyNet. However, when the SkyNet virus infects the U.S military computers & leaves the country open to attack, the machines begin their horrific takeover. Soon a nuclear war will result - and the war against the machines will begin. Can the outdated CSM-101 Terminator eliminate the highly advanced T-X - or will a darker future await man following the nuclear attack?

The Terminator Movie (1984)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Michael Bien | Linda Hamilton | Paul Winfield | Lance Henriksen | Bess Motta | Earl Boen | Rick Rossovich | Dick Miller | Shawn Schepps | Franco Columbu | Bill Paxton | Brad Rearden | Brian Thompson
Directors: James Cameron
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In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator can carry out it’s mission.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Edward Furlong | Robert Patrick | Earl Boen | Joe Morton | S. Epatha Merkerson | Castulo Guerra | Danny Cooksey | Jenette Goldstein | Xander Berkeley | Linda Hamilton | Ken Gibbel | Robert Winley | Peter Schrum
Directors: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Testament (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane Alexander | William Devane | Rossie Harris | Roxana Zal | Lukas Haas | Philip Anglim | Lilia Skala | Leon Ames | Lurene Tuttle | Rebecca De Mornay | Kevin Costner | Mako | Mico Olmos | Gerry Murillo | J. Brennan Smith
Directors: Lynne Littman
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Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.

The Abyss (1989)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ed Harris | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Michael Biehn | Leo Burmester | Todd Graff | John Bedford Lloyd | J.C. Quinn | Kimberly Scott | Captain Kidd Brewer Jr. | George Robert Klek | Christopher Murphy | Adam Nelson | Dick Warlock | Jimmie Ray Weeks | J. Kenneth Campbell
Directors: James Cameron
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An American nuclear submarine is attacked (during the cold war) and crashes underwater. The navy asks the workers of a nearby underwater oil rig who are joined by a number of navy SEALS to locate and investigate the cause of the crash. As the crew embark on their mission, they encounter a number of difficulties and discover that they may not be alone. There is something else down there.