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1. Chernobyl (2019)
TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis
Votes: 872,449
2. Dreams (1990)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Votes: 29,319 | Gross: $1.96M
3. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
Votes: 67,565 | Gross: $35.17M
4. The China Syndrome (1979)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Votes: 33,148 | Gross: $51.72M
5. DeepStar Six (1989)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 13,290 | Gross: $8.14M
6. Meet the Applegates (1990)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby
Votes: 2,631 | Gross: $0.49M
7. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
96 min | Documentary, History
Newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts to lay bare the tragedy and heroic efforts made to prevent another explosion.
Director: James Jones | Stars: Lyudmila Ignatenko, Oleksiy Breus, Leonenko Vitaliy, Aleksandr Syrota
Votes: 1,893
8. Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History
Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Stars: Rick Parks, Nicole Remsburg, Paula Kinney, Joyce Corradi
Votes: 5,448
9. The Simpsons: Tapped Out (2012 Video Game)
T | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Homer accidentally causes a nuclear meltdown whilst playing The Happy Little Elves Village on his myPad. After he's the only one to survive the blast, he starts to rebuild Springfield, bringing other characters out of limbo in the process.
Stars: Pamela Hayden, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta
Votes: 776
10. Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005 Video)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Fintan McKeown, Jacinta Mulcahy, Michael Zelniker, Zoe Thorne
Votes: 558
11. In the Dark of the Valley (2021)
101 min | Documentary, History
A group of mothers discover that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was the site of one of the largest nuclear accidents in United States history; and may have exposed their children and their community to cancer-causing hazardous waste.
Director: Nicholas Mihm
Votes: 119
12. Ultravox: Dancing with Tears in My Eyes (1984 Music Video)
4 min | Music
"Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" is the second single from Lament, Ultravox's seventh studio album. The video is about a nuclear power plant meltdown.
Directors: Chris Cross, Midge Ure | Stars: Ultravox, Midge Ure, Warren Cann, Chris Cross
Votes: 33
13. Knocking on the Devil's Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy (2011)
96 min | Documentary, History, News
The nuclear reactor catastrophes at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now at Fukushima, Japan, remind us that a heinous specter hovers over the health and security of millions of people ... See full summary »
Directors: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve | Stars: Ryan Alexander, Christopher Busby, Helen Caldicott, Betty Chavey
Votes: 9
14. The Cleanup (2021)
24 min | Documentary, Short
60 years after one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in US history, disagreement among local activists continues to delay the very cleanup they are fighting for.
Director: Deb Kemp
15. Conversation with a Cactus (2017)
45 min | Documentary
A documentary that investigates experiments into conversing with plant matter, and asks the question whether a cactus could have given crucial evidence in the suspicious death of a reporter investigating the Fukushima meltdown.
Directors: Élise Florenty, Marcel Türkowsky | Star: Ayumi Yoshida
Votes: 26
16.
Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension (1998)
Episode:
The Newsroom
(1998)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Mitchell discovers that the town's paper The Eerie Enquirer makes up their front page stories which then somehow come true. The editor wants their next story to be about a meltdown at the nuclear power plant where Mitchell's mom works.
Stars: Bill Switzer, Daniel Clark, Deborah Odell, Lindy Booth
Votes: 21
17.
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Episode:
Fallout
(1997)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The EGBs battle a ghost which feeds on radioactive energy that renders their ghostbusting equipment useless. As the ghost grows more powerful by consuming more energy, the EGBs must devise ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Berkeley | Stars: Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick
Votes: 33
18.
The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode:
Earthquakes Happen
(1978)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Banner uses forged documents to take the place of safety inspector Robert Patterson in order to get access to Gamma ray inversion equipment at a power plant when an earthquake hits.
Director: Harvey S. Laidman | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Sherry Jackson
Votes: 254
19.
The Newsroom (1996–2005)
Episode:
Meltdown: Part 1
(1997)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy, Drama
Famous film director David Cronenberg arrives to talk about his new movie Crash (1996) only to show his unflattering true colors. The newsroom turns to pop culture to find a catchy way to report on a possible nuclear meltdown in Toronto.
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Karen Hines, Mark Farrell, Ken Finkleman, Tanya Allen
Votes: 17
20.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Homer Defined
(1991)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
Homer is a hero after averting a nuclear meltdown that he nearly caused, but he doesn't want to tell anyone that he stopped it completely by accident.
Director: Mark Kirkland | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 4,407
21.
Special Unit 2 (2001–2002)
Episode:
The Straw
(2002)
Action, Comedy, Crime
A caped and hooded creature made of straw (Scarecrow), is set loose on the city of Chicago after being dug up in the sewers by curious city workers. He walks around the city trying to cause... See full summary »
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Michael Landes, Alexondra Lee, Richard Gant, Danny Woodburn
Votes: 36
22.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Hoaxes, Buttigieg, Healthcare, Israel, Candace Owens, More
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
23.
MacGyver (2016–2021)
Episode:
Code + Artemis + Nuclear + N3mesis
(2020)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Los Angeles' power grid is taken hostage in a ransomware attack resulting in a citywide blackout; the team discovers that the ransomware code used was written by Riley years ago.
Director: Michael Martinez | Stars: Lucas Till, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires, Meredith Eaton
Votes: 493
24.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
James Woods Is Back, Donny Deutsch Gets Cancelled, Optimism Is High
(2020 Podcast Episode)
56 min | News
Star: Scott Adams
25.
For All Mankind (2019– )
Episode:
Happy Valley
(2022)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A surprise maneuver during the journey to Mars provokes desperate measures.
Director: Wendey Stanzler | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Krys Marshall
Votes: 1,695
26.
The Days (2023)
Episode:
I Can No Longer Leave Here Alive
(2023)
TV-14 | 53 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When pressure in the containment vessel finally starts to decrease, TOEPCO headquarters want on-site workers to get back to work, but Yoshida is wary.
Director: Masaki Nishiura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hao Feng, Nobi Nakanishi, Minae Noji
Votes: 207
27.
The Days (2023)
Episode:
Decide the Conditions for Evacuation
(2023)
TV-14 | 56 min | Drama, History, Thriller
As the administration and TOEPCO headquarters grow increasingly impatient, Station Manager Yoshida asks for permission to evacuate some on-site workers.
Director: Masaki Nishiura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hao Feng, Katsuyuki Miyake, Nobi Nakanishi
Votes: 199
28.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
ESG, FBI and J6, And How My Plan Is Going So Far
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
29.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
CWSA 04/30/24
(2024 Podcast Episode)
News
DEI proves racist and it can lead to a nuclear meltdown. Young women prefer older men. Lawyer Christina Bobb may go to jail for her political affiliation. Everything is bad, but it's all leading to a Trump administration.
30.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
CWSA 05/06/24
(2024 Podcast Episode)
News
Scott offers analysis on Trump's standing in the polls, MIT's desalinization discovery using light, and nuclear power's increasing adoption globally. Other topics include Kristi Noem's ghostwriter, Boeing whistleblowers, and Tesla layoffs.
Star: Scott Adams