Atomic bomb movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant atomic bomb movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense and independent film films and TV shows about / with atomic bomb, world war two, world war, danger, scientist, military, nuclear, nuclear war, soldier and explosion plots mostly in Drama, History and War genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as atomic bomb: Manhattan (2014), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Oppenheimer (2023), Day One (1989), The Manhattan Project (1986), Hiroshima (1995), The Good German (2006), The Day After (1983), Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990), Oppenheimer (1980).

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Manhattan (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a ...
Style: clever, serious, captivating, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: atomic bomb, world war two, laboratory, scientist, inventions and discoveries, ambition, military, relationship vs career, power relations, workplace, unhappy wife, top secret ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944
Place: new mexico, usa
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style: factual, suspense, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, military, biopic, idealism, politics, scientific research, nuclear, ego clash, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, bay area
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 8.4
 660K
Oppenheimer (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nuclear, world war two, atomic bomb, scientist, american politics, historical event, mastermind, top secret, physics, moral dilemma, guilt, arizona desert ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1943, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: new mexico, netherlands, germany
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 7.4
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Day One (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, holocaust, terrorism, war, atomic weapons, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: world war two, world war, usa history, atomic bomb, bomber, military, danger, moral dilemma, state affairs, against humanity, war, heroes ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, usa, asia, hiroshima japan, pacific ocean
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The Manhattan Project (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, feel good, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: cold war, nuclear, teenager, military, atomic bomb, whistleblower, heist, nuclear holocaust, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, chase ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york
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 7.8
 979
Hiroshima (1995)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story: Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: world war two, politics, world war, atomic bomb, nuclear holocaust, terrorism, injustice, nuclear, disaster, surrender, battles, white house ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place: hiroshima japan, usa, japan, asia, new york
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The Good German (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his ...
Style: black and white, neo noir, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: murder, world war two, investigation, nazi, justice, haunted by the past, uncover truth, journalism, sex shop, love of one's life, love affair, cold war ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006, post world war two
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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 7.0
 18K
The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: world war two, nuclear holocaust, disaster, nuclear war, surrender, battles, military, confined, war, life is a bitch, against humanity, danger ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hiroshima japan, asia, japan, usa
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 8.2
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Oppenheimer (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 420 min.
TV show
Story: Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life's work.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, scientist, atomic bomb, atomic weapons, science, mastermind, biopic, heroes, ego clash, war, danger, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 50s, 1950s
Place: new mexico
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 6.4
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Ground Zero (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, atomic bomb, investigation, aborigine, australian aboriginal, survival, dead father, nuclear holocaust, politics, murder, conspiracy theory, advertising ...
Time: year 1987, 50s
Place: australia, south australia, melbourne
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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, tense, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, warship, u.s. navy, shark, sea, ocean, military, submarine, rescue, survival, world war, disobeying orders ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: san francisco, the philippines, washington d.c., pacific ocean
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Special Bulletin (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to ...
Style: bad ending, captivating, thought provoking, psychological, serious ...
Plot: found footage, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, nuclear, nuclear war, terrorism, end of the world, president, u.s. president, disaster, cold war, witch ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
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Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychedelic, spiritual, mind blowing, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, disaster, dystopia, underground, epidemic, end of the world, spirituality, nuclear disaster ...
Time: distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the ...
Style: apocalyptic, satirical, realistic, not serious, biting ...
Plot: satire, president, post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, social satire, atomic bomb, u.s. president, epidemic, nuclear war, political satire, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, england, caribbean, soviet union ...
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Hiroshima Maiden (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: "You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad ...
Plot: world war two, world war, nuclear war, atomic bomb, family relations, disfigured face, surgery, fbi, racism, disfigurement, prejudice, friend ...
Time: post world war two, 1950s
Place: japan, hiroshima japan
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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants.
Style: philosophical, realistic, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: terrorism, plutonium, atomic bomb, technology, mental disorder, professor, sexploitation, high school teacher, satire, nuclear threat, car chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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Radioactive (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style: captivating, uplifting, poignant, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: nobel prize, scientist, radioactivity, chemistry, radiation, nuclear, physics, science, biopic, scientific research, physicist, genius ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, victorian era, year 1961, year 1945 ...
Place: chernobyl, europe, poland, stockholm sweden, paris france ...
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 6.4
 14K
Red Joan (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, factual, realistic, depressing ...
Plot: woman, world war two, atomic bomb, propaganda, female spy, politics, kgb, soviet spy, oppression, russian spy, spanish civil war, female secret agent ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, year 2019, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: soviet union, hiroshima japan, russia, canada, montreal ...
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Operation White Shark (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When "The Third Eye" - a criminal organization made up of the world's most vicious killers - kidnaps nuclear scientist Professor Von Kraft, his secret formula for a new atomic weapon that can destroy all human life falls into their ...
Style: eurospy
Plot: scientist, cold war, espionage, underwater, atomic bomb, gunfight, water skiing, helicopter, nightclub, underwater fight, bunker, rock music ...
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Message From The Future (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: From the year 3005, a delegate from the future arrives in 1985 to convince the present leaders make certain World War III happens, which he guarantees will make for a better future. Having already caused natural disasters and catastrophes by coming ...
Plot: time travel, world war three, atomic bomb, robot, nuclear bomb, cold war, female nudity, sex, telepathy, teleportation, un, advertising ...
Time: future
Place: israel
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Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...
Style: political
Plot: world war two, world war, japanese soldier, japanese army, japanese history, military, japanese military, soldier, atomic bomb, emperor, imperial japan, pacific war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, tokyo, china, usa
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Golden Rendezvous (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacked by a heavily armed group of mercenaries, led by John Vernon. Complicating matters, a nuclear ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, independent film, freeze frame, bilingual
Plot: ship, sea, disaster, boat, die hard, hostage, atomic bomb, wounded, port, misunderstanding, steward, blackout ...
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The Saboteurs (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway, Denmark, UK, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story about the heavy water war unfolds during the prolouge, eruption and the end of the second world war. We follow the story of the the key personnel in the race of who develops the atomic bomb first.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: world war two, atomic bomb, bomb, resistance, chemistry, danger, ambition, inventions and discoveries, heroic mission, soldier, military, moral dilemma ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, germany, scotland
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya) appears in front of her and they ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, art house, sweet
Plot: father son relationship, troubled past, changing lives, loss of family, family relations, family reunited, japanese man, loss of family member, tragic past, mother son reunion, loss of child, confronting the past ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan
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 2.4
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USS Seaviper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Direct to DVD movie: The German U-Boat, U-234, from the Port of Kiel is trading cargo with the Japanese. USS Seaviper must locate and stop this dangerous exchange. The Captain of USS Seaviper must go ashore to conduct reconnaissance on an island ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, world war two, save the day, danger, isolation, heroic mission, rebellion, survival, island, rebelliousness, war, soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
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Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and eventually becomes an indestuctable humanoid. Later, a ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, daikaiju ...
Plot: frankenstein, giant monster, godzilla, world war two, scientist, false accusation, kaiju, mutant, rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 60s
Place: japan, germany, hiroshima japan, tokyo, asia ...
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 3.3
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Downdraft (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Only Special Forces agent Jack Slater and his computer programming sidekick can save the world from Armageddon when the supercomputer masterminding America's nuclear initiatives goes berserk with power and decides to launch the missiles.
Plot: terminator, world war, die hard, atomic bomb, nuclear threat, bunker, agent, missile, computer, special forces, armageddon
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 6.5
 15K
Emperor (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, epic, retro ...
Plot: world war two, japanese history, war, emperor, investigation, politics, occupation, military, war crime, political intrigue, moral dilemma, ruler ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1932, year 1945 ...
Place: japan, asia
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