Νέα Υόρκη, 1985. Η Αμερική έχει επιστρέψει νικήτρια από το Βιετνάμ, έχει πρόεδρο τον Ρίτσαρντ Νίξον και βρίσκεται στα πρόθυρα πυρηνικού πολέμου με τη Σοβιετική Ένωση. Όλοι οι παλιοί υπερήρωες έχουν διά νόμου αποσυρθεί, όταν όμως ένας από αυτούς δολοφονείται, ο μασκοφόρος ντετέκτιβ Ρόρσαχ πιστεύει ότι αυτή είναι η αρχή μιας τεράστιας, πολύ επικίνδυνης πλεκτάνης.
Μέσα των 1980 κι ο σοβιετικός στρατός επελαύνει στο Βερολίνο. Στο Λόρενς του Κάνσας, οι άνθρωποι συνεχίζουν τις καθημερινές του συνήθειες, αλλά και υπό τον φόβο ενός πυρηνικού πολέμου. Ο φόβος γίνεται πραγματικότητα κι ο εφιάλτης έχει μεταφερθεί στην επόμενη ημέρα του ολέθρου.
Πυρηνικός πόλεμος έχει ερημώσει το μισό πλανήτη. Ένα αμερικανικό υποβρύχιο βρίσκει καταφύγιο στην Αυστραλία. Ο κυβερνήτης, που έχει χάσει την οικογένειά του, γνωρίζεται με μια γυναίκα, η οποία δεν θα αργήσει να τον ερωτευτεί.
The Man Who Saved the World is a feature documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.
Ένα ζευγάρι τυπικών Εγγλέζων που ζουν μόνοι τους στην εξοχή, ετοιμάζουν ένα αντι-πυρηνικό καταφύγιο όταν πληροφορούνται ότι επίκειται πυρηνικός πόλεμος.
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
Ένας άνθρωπος από τυχαίο τηλεφώνημα μαθαίνει ότι ξέσπασε πυρηνικός πόλεμος και ότι σε 70 λεπτά οι πύραυλοι θα πλήξουν τη πόλη του
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.
Ο κόσμος έχει υποστεί μαζική καταστροφή και σχεδόν όλοι οι άνθρωποι είναι νεκροί. Η νεαρή Αν Μπάρντεν πιστεύει ότι είναι ο έσχατος κάτοικος του πλανήτη, ώσπου συναντά έναν ετοιμοθάνατο επιστήμονα που αναζητά επιζώντες. Η σχέση τους εντείνεται όταν βρίσκουν ακόμα έναν ζωντανό άντρα. Οι δύο άντρες αρχίζουν να διαφιλονικούν για τη στοργή της Αν, και τα πρωτογενή τους άγρια ένστικτα αντικαθιστούν την πολιτισμένη τους φύση.
After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
An upcoming DC animated film based on the "Watchmen" comic book written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons that follows a group of retired superheroes in an alternate history version of 1985 in America.
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be the first casualties.
After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of safety... and answers.
Many years after a nuclear war, the human survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by androids, referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". A police official who is concerned that his sister has become involved with an android is sent to investigate a larger rumor that the androids are developing reason and emotion.
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.
A couple has a fight over a game of Scrabble unaware that a full-scale nuclear war has started.