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1. Radioactive (2019)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.

Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin

Votes: 21,723

2. Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Passed | 106 min | Adventure, Film-Noir, Romance

In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokoloff

Votes: 3,442

3. The Beginning or the End (1947)

Passed | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler

Votes: 749 | Gross: $2.66M

4. Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton

Votes: 2,890

5. High Plains Invaders (2009 TV Movie)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A wild west town hosts the strangest showdown of all: against an invading army of extraterrestrials. Outlaws and townspeople must join forces to survive.

Director: Kristoffer Tabori | Stars: Constantin Barbulescu, Dan Bordeianu, Adriana Butoi, Antony Byrne

Votes: 1,405

6. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Actinium - Periodic Table of Videos (2017)

Documentary

Actinium is one of the few elements that undergoes radioactive decay rapidly enough to ionize the air around it creating the mythic radioactive glow, in actinium's case, a bluish glow.

Star: Martyn Poliakoff

7. Welch Labs (2014–2023)
Episode: The Most Dangerous Rock in the World (2023)

13 min | Documentary

The discoveries that lead to an understanding of nuclear radiation and nuclear fission that culminated in a race to build the atomic bomb.

Star: Stephen Welch