Radioactive Contamination - in The Media

In The Media

• The Atom Strikes! (1945) — official US War Department film documenting damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Gembaku no ko (1952) — documentary showing a Japanese school teacher who visits her hometown of Hiroshima 6 years after the bombing to find the horrors of radiation.
• The War Game (1965) - banned television docudrama about a Soviet nuclear attack on Britain, not shown on TV until 1985
• Hiroshima Nagasaki August 1945 (1970) — documentary of atomic bomb devastation.
• The Atomic Cafe (1982) — documentary combines stock US government footage of nuclear testing along with propaganda films shown in public schools in the 1940s and 1950s about how citizens should respond to atomic attacks.
• The Day After (1983) — TV docudrama about the effects of a nuclear holocaust on the small-town residents in eastern Kansas.
• Threads (1984) — British television drama featuring a nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in northern England.
• Radio Bikini (1988) — documentary film about Bikini Atoll atomic tests. Gruesome details and pictures of joking sailors being irradiated, and interview with an injured (irradiated) sailor.
• Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990) — TV history and graphic depictions of the horror of nuclear war.
• K-19: Doomsday Submarine (2002) — TV documentary about Russia's disastrous first nuclear submarine.
• K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) — docudrama about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine K-19
• The Last Atomic Bomb (2006) — documentary about the fate of the survivors of Nagasaki 1945.
• White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) — HBO documentary showing how many teenage Japanese are ignorant of what happened in 1945. Also includes some American atomic veterans.

Also see Criticality accident for six more films about radioactive issues.