How Much Is Enough? Decision Making in the Nuclear Age

An examination of atomic weapons systems and the pressures on the United States and the Soviet Union to constantly expand their atomic arsenals.

In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?

Multiple children are interviewed and asked about their thoughts on the threat of nuclear weapons.

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat

A documentary exploring the historical concept of the narrative of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb." This short documentary compares the film with the act

We're Not a Nuclear Family Anymore...

Autobiographical film in which the film-maker’s mother recalls incidents from her daughter's childhood in a Somerset mining village, and the three imaginary friends, two with red hair and one with dark hair, who ‘came do

We're Entering the Nuclear Age

A satirical look at today's times.

Propane Bubble Chambers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Bubble chambers are typically used to record interactions between high-energy particles and the nuclei of the chamber’s working fluid, or to observe particle decays. In the former case, the working fluid also serves as t

Journey Without End: Living in the Nuclear Age

The world after WWII is largely defined as nuclear age. The nuclear energy has been sold as “peaceful” use of atoms, while in essence it is the same as nuclear weapons. The film visits the people and land damaged by purs

The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn

A story about the life and turbulent times of Lisa Meitner and Otto Hahn, two exceptional scientists whose remarkable collaboration culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission, the division of the atom that changed th

Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident

A decade on from its triple core meltdown, we take stock of the mammoth task of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an undertaking fraught with both technical and social challenges. The Japanese go

Always/Never: The Quest for Nuclear Safety, Control, and Survivability

Sandia National Laboratories’ documentary, Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control & Survivability, showcases rare historical footage and interviews with a wide range of experts to describe how national security labo

Nuclear Defence… Living in a Fool’s Paradise

Participants and onlookers make connections between our attitudes to protest and the influence of the education systems, the media and the state.

The Condo at the End of the World: Life Inside a Nuclear Missile Bunker

Edward Peden purchased a former US military launch site in the 1980s, and has been living in it ever since. Meanwhile, Larry Hall is building million-dollar condominiums inside of an underground missile silo.

Posted Grudge Spirit Footage Vol.85: Nuclear Edition

This is the 85th installment of the “Posted Grudge Spirit Footage” film series.

The Balkan Falcon - Anti-Nuclear Demonstrations in Ljubljana

Documentary recording of protests in Ljubljana, hidden for a long time and hidden in a Viba film store in a box entitled "Balkanski Hokol".

PBS Network - Nova - "In the Event of Catastrophe" [Nuclear War & Civil Defense]

Here's a complete edition of the Nova "In the Event of Catastrophe" as aired over the PBS Network - and in Chicago, would have been transmitted over WTTW Channel 11. This deals with civil defense preparedness in the eve

Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity, and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S.

The Will: If Only There Were No Nuclear Power Plant

A 3 hour and 45 minute long documentary that chronicles the situation in Fukushima Prefecture, which was hit by the nuclear accident, over 800 days immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake. On March 12, 2011, th

Nuclear Fallout: The forgotten veterans who cleaned it up and their fight for justice

Nuclear Fallout follows the quest of two army veterans fighting for access to health care for fellow service members exposed to cancer-causing radiation while serving on a top-secret nuclear cleanup operation in the Mars

Atomic Pilgrimage: Ghost Towns, Nuclear Relics, and Lost Civilizations on the Road to the Trinity Site

A 40-day, 40-night road trip to the Trinity Site-where the first atomic bomb was detonated in the summer of 1945-covering many other atomic destinations and driving deep into the natural and social history of the America

Synthesis of Element 102 at the Multicharged Ion Accelerator of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research