Below is a list of top nuclear war videos. Consider holding a video party in your area for local activists.

By Dawn's Early Light (1990) starring James Earl Jones and Martin Landau is the story of a nuclear war started by Soviet dissidents who used a stolen missile to destroy a Russian city. Russia retaliates by launching nuclear missiles aimed at targets in the United States. The story moves quickly toward global Armageddon, a frighteningly realistic possibility in a world armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons.

Miracle Mile (1988) Harry (Anthony Edwards) shows up to a Los Angeles café and discovers his girlfriend is nowhere to be found. He excitedly answers the ringing public telephone outside the café, thinking it is his girlfriend calling to explain her belatedness. The voice on the phone is not Harry’s girlfriend; but a frantic U.S. soldier calling from a missile silo who says Russian nuclear missiles will be impacting the United States in two hours.

Testament (1983) is a story of the Wetherlys who live in a suburban neighborhood adjacent to a city that is destroyed with a nuclear bomb. They live far enough away to be safe from the effects of the explosive blast and the terrible heat, but not the radiation, which brings a slow and miserable death to everyone in their town.

The Atomic Café (1982) is a documentary film about propaganda, produced entirely from U.S. government material. The makers of The Atomic Café omitted narration, allowing the film to speak for itself. The footage supplied by the U.S. government is at times alarming and at other times comical and surreal.

The Atomic Filmmakers (1998) documents the secret film studio, Lookout Point, and its team who were employed by the U.S. government to film and photograph nuclear test explosions. The studio was located in the Hollywood hills, so the team could exploit the latest filming technology as it was developed. Color films with stereo sound allow audiences to witness in full effect the destructiveness of a nuclear explosion.

The Day After (1983) is a dramatic story of everyday life in Missouri leading up to a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The eerie contrails of Minutemen missiles launched from nearby silos signal to the population of Kansas that all life will soon be over. Panic and hysteria consume to population as Russian missiles descend upon their homes.

The War Game (1963) was funded by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1966, and was officially banned from television in Great Britain for its horrific content. This film realistically simulates the effects that a limited nuclear war could have to the Earth, to people and to society.

Threads (1984) is a prophetic story that documents the life of Ruth Beckett for 13 years following a full scale nuclear war. The audience can witness the terrible reality that a nuclear war would create: widespread destruction and death, disease, starvation, psychological suffering, physical and mental mutation.

Trinity and Beyond (1995) is a documentary utilizing footage of nuclear test explosions, narrated by William Shatner. Almost every U.S. nuclear test program is documented along with a musical score that haunts its audience throughout the scenes of violent explosions.