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2) On the beach
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Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
4) The divide
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As nuclear warheads rain down on Manhattan, nine strangers barricade themselves in their apartment building's bunker-like basement controlled by the unhinged superintendent. But within days, supplies dwindle, tempers flare, and the trapped survivors will be overcome by treachery, madness, sexual torment, and savage violence. What follows is intense. It is raw. And it is all brutally, horrifyingly real.
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Criterion collection volume 821
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In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
6) Fail safe
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"When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American president tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate. In desperation, the President offers to sacrifice an American city if his pilots succeed in their deadly mission over Moscow"--Container.
13) After the dark
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Faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse, a group of twenty college students must determine which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race. The decision quickly becomes deadly as each in the group turns against each other in a desperate fight for survival.
14) The road warrior
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Max is loner who drives the roads of the Australian outback on an unending search for gasoline. Fighting against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by The Humungus.
15) The day after
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Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
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The road warrior: Story is set in the post-nuclear outback of Australia where a battle is raged by a tiny band of civilized survivors and a group of barbarians over a precious cache of gasoline. Mad Max beyond thunderdome: Max, the world-weary hero stands alone against the barbarians of a post-nuclear Australia.
19) Miracle mile
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When Harry picked up the pay phone he could hardly believe what he heard. Harry thought it was a joke, but the more he considered it, the clearer it became. America had 70 minutes until the bomb would be dropped. And Harry had to spread the word.
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The retelling of the classic Cold War doomsday thriller. A computer malfunction triggers the transmission of nuclear-attack codes to a U.S. bomber squadron. The orders are irreversible, the primary target is Moscow, and the President, his advisors and military leaders race time to head off global catastrophe. Recalling the adrenaline-rush of early TV drama, this movie was staged and telecast live in black-and-white, establishing an immediate sense...
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