This list concerns movies, movielength documentaries, and films that dealt with the immediate consequencesor pending eventsof nuclear war. You have a runaway atomic train that is headed straight to denver unless john seger rob lowe and other officials can stop it. However, he falls on the tracks and is killed by a freight train. Form, montage and mesmerizing kinetics propel this experimental meditation on the destructive power of the nuclear bomb, featuring music by the acid. Atomic train is a 1999 actionthriller film about an accidental nuclear. In atomic train, a runaway freight train carrying hazardous materials, including an old nuclear bomb. Atomic train by ken tucker updated may 14, 1999 at 04. An atomic bomb survivor recalls the horrors of hiroshima. Train 4 american flag 3 anime 3 archival footage 3 army 3 asia 3 atomic bomb. Strangelove, arguably the bleakest western cinematic depiction of nuclear destruction. While on there trying to get the conductor off and accounting for the. With an unmanned, halfmilelong freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe. Bradshaw disposal services has a nuclear bomb made in russia to transport, and an employee named henry bradshaw decides to save money by. It was a bit more complicated than one can realize in this day and age.
Its a documentary about the rise of the atomic age told entirely through newsreel footage, declassified military training films and civil defense films. Pages in category films about the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki the following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. Reminder of the power of the atomic bomb tripadvisor. The manhattan project was the code name for the americanled effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during world war ii. Atomic train movie trains magazine trains news wire. Barreling down the tracks with defective brakes, a train is making its way to denver. All 37 songs from the atomic blonde 2017 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. A waste disposal company has a russian nuclear bomb to transport, and an. View of the radioactive plume from the bomb dropped on nagasaki, as seen from 9.
The atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki in august 1945 killed thousands, but many residents survived. Atomic blonde 2017 soundtrack complete list of songs. Nbcs atomic train, a twopart miniseries airing on may 16 and 17 in which a train loaded with radioactive waste and one nuclear bomb careens out of control and ultimately explodes, depicts such a worrisome scenario that the nuclear industry has crafted a propaganda strategy to squelch debate and concerns raised by the drama. A train filled with atomic devices threatens to destroy the city of denver. I dont remember much about the movie, just that it starts out with a train that is already carrying chemicalsnuclear warfare chemicals, then someone puts a bomb on the train illegally. Atomic train is a 1999 american madefortelevision disasteractionthriller film about an. Youll notice we replaced the 5star fan ratings with the rotten tomatoes audience score to help you choose a movie to watch. Atomic train is a 1999 disasterthriller madefortelevision movie about an accidental nuclear explosion in the city of denver. With rob lowe, kristin davis, esai morales, john finn. An air hose breaks and then the trains brakes become useless in real life, this wound automatically apply the emergency brakes and stop the train, but this film is full of errors and. I have watched the movie twice now and i am glad i bought it. Rob lowe has a disaster of horrific proportions on his hands. The possibility that the germans would manufactureand detonatean atomic bomb. The list contains the best, new and most relevant nuclear bomb movies ordered by relevance.
It depends on what you mean by about the hiroshima bombing. Anyone want to make an activity where the gp38 is the runaway train and you have to chase it, connect to the caboose at 70mph then hit the brakes. Hollywood has never done a film that centers on the bombing itself and focuses on the experience of japanese citizens and foreign nationals caught in the explosion and its aftermath. Within the confines of its walls is more than just passengers or cargo. That morning, a bomb exploded on a commuter train just outside chicago. It was originally broadcast on nbc as a twopart miniseries on may 16 and 17, 1999.
Therefore, i dont include such postnuclear holocaust movies as nausica or the planet of the apes. The film vacillates wildly and effectively between dark humor and being deeply disturbing. The train, also loaded with hazardous and flammable chemicals, suffers a brake failure and becomes a runaway heading for denver. I spent the better part of these three years reading and watching accounts of the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. Rob lowe plays a national transportation safety board. Nbcs atomic train explodes myth of safe nuclear waste. Filmmaker smriti keshari and author eric schlossers experimental movie started as a. Discovering the now highly unstable bomb onboard, firefighters. The atomic kid 1954 a man is in a house within the danger area of a nuclear bomb test area when the bomb is activated. It was also hard to narrow it down to even 15, so t2, akira, wargames and several others didnt.
Atomic train first came the jonbenet ramsey murder investigation fiasco, followed by the columbine high school tragedy, followed albeit on a lesser scale by john elways retirement. Frighteningly slim and few precautions are taken with the lives of those people who jobs were to. The next thing i remember after that is an agentcopsome guy. Now i am become death, the destroyer of worlds, is the quote that j. My schoolmates and i were lined up in the courtyard for roll call when i saw three airplanes in the air, and i recognized the familiar sound of b29s, he said. A soldier wakes up in someone elses body and discovers hes part of an. Atomic train 1999 entertainment trains wiki fandom. Killing 140 thousand in hiroshima and 70 thousand in nagasaki by the end of the 1945. A bomb explodes on a chicago train, derailing the locomotive and killing hundreds. In this nailbiting movie which is just under 3 hours, you will find out the answers and see how this kind of experience brings out. The train must be stopped and derailment is not on the agenda. If they can, what will happen if the bomb should explode due to damage to the train.
In an attempt to identify the bomber and prevent another, larger attack on downtown chicago, captain colter. At the outset of world war ii, germany far outpaced other countries in atomic research. The film is directed by david leitch, in his first solo directorial credit, and it is written by kurt johnstad. A waste disposal company has a russian nuclear bomb to transport, and. Atomic test, amazing films of hbomb actual footage of nuclear bomb testing, the scientists and military people involved in a the south pacific and the american southwest. Atomic train 1999 trivia 7 add new the film was not shown on the colorado nbc affiliate, kusa9, because of the columbine shootings. Atomic train is a madefortelevision disaster movie about a train transporting explosive chemicals and, as the name suggests, an atomic bomb put there by smugglers the night before.
The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense and suspense films and tv shows about with atomic bomb, danger, military, heroes, runaway, catastrophe, dialogue, culture clash, mentor and storytelling plots mostly in drama, thriller and action genres shot in. Lowe who makes a surprisingly good action hero is national transportation safety board investigator john seger, who must derail the disaster. By coincidence, the trains brakes fail, and its up to john seger rob lowe, an ntsb agent, teaming up with wally phister john finn, a train operator, to prevent the disaster of the train crashing and the bomb. Most popular atomic bomb, hiroshima japan movies and tv shows refine see titles to watch instantly, titles you haven. Barefoot gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boys life and the lives of the japanese people. The decision to drop the bomb 1995 tv movie documentary, history, war. August 6 marks the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the japanese city of hiroshima. The basic story is a stowaway nuclear bomb on a runaway train. Prerelease publicity and commercials referred to atomic waste, not an atomic bomb, being carried on the train.
August 6th marks the 70th year since deadly atomic bomb was dropped in hiroshima and later nagasaki. The list contains the best, new and most relevant atomic bomb movies ordered by relevance. Atom bomb joe bonicas movie of the month internet archive. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, realistic and intense films and tv shows about with nuclear bomb, danger, chases and races, heroes, chase, race against time, dialogue, catastrophe, mentor and weapons plots mostly in action, thriller and scifi genres. Getting dropped onto the train because the breaks of the train failed. Atomic twister abc, madefortv a film about a modern automated power plant in the path of a tornado which threatens the plant. With denzel washington, chris pine, rosario dawson, ethan suplee. Most popular atomic bomb, hiroshima japan movies and tv. Atomic train is a 1999 american madefortelevision disasteractionthriller film about an accidental nuclear explosion destroying the city of denver. As boyfriend carl wendell corey is helping connie janet leigh trim the tree when new acquaintance steve robert mitchum arrives with the shopping, in producerdirector don hartmans holiday affair, 1949 view the tcmdb entry for holiday affair 1949. These experiments, performed at the omega site, were commonly referred to as tickling the tail of the dragon. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. The indianapolis carried the heavy guntype bomb case and one of the internal parts of the bomb, and two long distance transport planes carried a couple of other parts, the target and projectileplug of u235 were carried separately one on the ship, and one on a plane, and the initiators were carried in another aircraft.
I found that we americans tend to prefer the image of the mushroom cloud to depictions of the bombs effects on our victims. Are there any good hollywood movies on the hiroshima. See more ideas about hiroshima, atomic bomb hiroshima and nagasaki. A documentary presenting mankinds most ambitious effort at perfecting the means to its own annihilation.
Source code is a 2011 american science fiction action thriller film directed by duncan jones. Trinity and beyond the atom bomb movie soundtrack cd details and availability. Atomic blonde is a 2017 american action spy thriller film based on the 2012 graphic novel the coldest city, which revolves around a spy who has to find a list of double agents who are being smuggled into the west on the eve of the collapse of the berlin wall in 1989. Robert oppenheimer famously thought of when he presided over the first successful atomic bomb test back in. The secret world war ii mission to kidnap hitlers abomb. The us b29 superfortress bockscar dropped the atomic bomb nicknamed fat man, which detonated above the ground on northern part of nagasaki just after 11 a. Its a day jack dairiki, cal 58, remembers well because he was there. A train full of hazardous materials, and a smuggled russian nuclear warhead from stillwater, utah loses its brakes on the continental divide, derails in denver colorado. Atomic train was the most embarrasing movie with a railroad theme that i have had the displeasure of witnessing, although the errors are so glaring to someone with railroad experience, it made me actually sit and watch, and drive my wife up the wall pointing all them out. A clip from atomic train 1999 nuclear bomb explodes edited with movie maker. The best train movie ive ever seen atomic train see the part where the saver train turned the radio off and didnt know he had to stop then crash into the caboose. Rob lowe plays a national transportation safety board investigator who tries to stop a runaway train containing a nuclear missile. A wreck would be bad enough, but much, much worse if the bomb goes off.
John serger an ntsb agent has to prevent this from happening. For the most part, atomic train runs around in circleseventually rearending itself. Train wreck expert john seger rob lowe must defuse the bomb in order to stop a nuclear holocaust. A runaway freight train is heading for denver with a cargo of atomic devices on board, including a nuclear bomb. Train 4 american flag 3 anime 3 archival footage 3 army 3 asia 3 atomic bomb victim 3 blood 3. Atomic train is a 1999 actiondisaster thriller film about an accidental nuclear. Trinity and beyond the atom bomb movie soundtrack 1995.
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