Netflix’s Nuclear Drama Film Blows Past Box Office Hits, Tops the Streaming Chart

Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite" rises in its second week on the chart, clinching a 10-week No. 1 run for Netflix ...

‘Atomic Paradise’ Trains Indigenous Lens on Pacific Nuclear Testing at Taiwan Creative Content Fest

John Harvey's documentary reframes Pacific nuclear testing through First Nations lens, challenging colonial narratives with ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Netflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ sparks discussion about nuclear threats

This week’s top-streaming film on Netflix tackles a long-running Hollywood theme. The threat of a nuclear attack and the ...

Oscar-winning icon behind classic film dies at 90

Peter Watkins, the British filmmaker whose 1965 nuclear war drama “The War Game” was deemed too disturbing to broadcast by ...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, Chicago is the target of a nuclear attack. Does the movie reflect reality?

Experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago analyze the risks, both as they’re depicted in the movie and in ...
Opinion

The threat of nuclear war never went away

A new thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow raises key questions about presidential authority, global security and nuclear deterrence as we sit on the brink of another world war.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month

The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face ...

Love it or hate it, House of Dynamite is a film fuelling nuclear war fears. It's far from the first

Kathryn Bigelow's House of Dynamite — about the United States government's protocols in the face of a nuclear attack — prompted a response from no less than the Pentagon. It is hardly the first ...

Trump’s comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here’s what to know about it

President Donald Trump’s comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends ...

Peter Watkins, filmmaker best known for his searing mock-documentary The War Game, banned by the BBC

Peter Watkins, who has died the day after his 90th birthday, was a radical and visionary filmmaker who won an Oscar for The War Game, his mock-documentary about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on ...