Top 10 Nuclear Bomb Scenes in Movies
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The best nuclear bomb scene was the one I left in the bathroom this morning
+Darien Mead XD
Stupid
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.”
-Albert Einstein
Stupid quote from a smart man
@@scottypull-up8214 Sorry, but can you please explain how it's stupid?
@@scottypull-up8214 u don't get it do you. Is basically saying we invent something to kill ourselves, our world. Mouse don't create a mouse trap to kill themselves, their world. Its a smart quote from a smart man.
@@mr8883 a mouse can’t create a a mousetrap because they don’t have consciousness and don’t have hands and fingers to construct objects
@@scottypull-up8214 Keep smoking your weed u dumbfk
I had a chemistry/physics teacher in high school who was once an officer in the Air Force. Ask him one question about that time of his life and we would escape any lesson he had planned for the day because he loved to share his experiences in the military. One story that stuck with me, and he told this one a couple of years after The Day After was released...he was allowed to witness a nuclear bomb detonation test once. After being trained to wear the goggles, plus a face covering, inside a concrete bunker with just a small window to look out of, they were instructed to face the opposite direction of the blast. He took it one step further and placed his hand over the multiple layers of eye protection he already had on. He said the flash from the detonation was so bright...for a very brief second he could see the bones inside his hand!!
I had a former coworker tell me that he was in a fox hole / trench assigned to watch a nuclear bomb detonation from a "safe" distance. He said even with all the protective gear and his eyes shut he could see the skeleton of the man standing next to him. Sadly he eventually passed away from cancer but it's impossible to know if it was related to his exposure to radioactivity in the military.
@@lockman004 yeah ive read multiple accounts from japan survivors and soldiers from nuclear tests who all recount the same thing. Seeing all their bones and those of the ones sitting near
The other accounts of the walking dead..People walking blind and dazed as their flesh was falling off their body and their melted eyeballs dripping down their face..we are closer to nuclear war now than ever before.
@@hunterelliott4772 Cheer up. Tomorrow will be sunny and 50,000 degrees outside.
@@DipSet85 thats so surreal
Threads is both amazing and horrifying. Compelling and upsetting in equal measure. What's also so good about it is that it looks much further in to the future, 15 years I seem to remember, after a nuclear war. The whole thing is pretty tough going but the very last scene is the stuff of nightmares. I saw it when it was screened on the BBC. I must have been about 17. I have never forgotten it.
Threads is the best film about nukes by miles. Its so good! If anybody disagrees it's because they are either lying about having seen it or they are retarded.
@@amazingusername8925 Two others I would add to this -- "Failsafe" and both versions of "On the Beach" -- I screened Threads for my son (at the age of 15) (now 21)and my wife. He still has it stuck in his mind...and I introduced my wife to the latter two just before he was born .. cause a panic attack .. so much better than "The Day After"
I will add two more to best list that I totally agree with. They're smaller, but well worth a watch for those that lived back in those days. Testament and Special Bulletin.
@@amazingusername8925 I watched some of it. Based on what Barry Hines said, it's supposed to about how everyday people cope with the situation both pre, during and the aftermath, also in that there are no winners
@@angrywhitemale7163 Sp
Special Bulletin is definitely memorable.
How to survive: dig 3 blocks down and cover the top
BRO WHAT HAHAHA
Yup that is a good idea LOLOLOLL
If the world is Minecraft lol
Minecraft kid
Nope an even better way: just hide in a fridge
yeah, but the Godzilla one used actual footage of a nuclear test in the pacific.
Lenny really??
Yeah a real nuclear explosion is just a honorable mention LOL
7Criska go check the new nuclear bomb in Godzilla the king of the monster
@@gxt_fe4221 The first part of it is actually real. And its a fact.
Some of it was stock footage, obviously the part where the shockwave overtakes you is CG.
How to survive: Be in a Wolverine movie where radiation doesn’t exist 🤨
@Adrian Damesawara Winandra there is radiation in Indiana Jones. After that scene he gets scrubbed down cause of the radiation
Ssñsl☢
Also how was the metal not burning the man
Saúl it should be hot as hell
@@flatgrimace exactly
A nuclear engineer wrote a letter to James Cameron soon after the release of T2, saying it was the absolute most accurate nuclear explosion in cinematic history. The government itself even said that’s what it would look like: a blinding light, a flesh charring fire, THEN the actual blast would hit and turn you to ash. The ONLY inaccuracy was Sarah’s skeleton still intact for dramatic effect; her bones would be as good as gone too
To be fair, it's also a dream.
the fridge was made by NOKIA
Miles Varca jajajaja you made my day :D
Yep, we get it, Nokia made tough phones....
Cristhian De Los Santos Aybar Nokia saves lives..
Fridge was Billy the kid
Tonka under license actually.
How to survive these? Be the CAMERAMAN!!!
i'm pretty sure they all got cancer
For real tho
Fruitymasterz I’m pretty sure you missed the memo
Not just that you could also fly in a helicopter if far enough away from the nuke or hide in a nuclear fallout shelter.
@@bryangraham1052 yeah, seems reasonable than being a cameraman, hahaha
The special effects for the day after may have been superior but Threads was by far the more atmospheric and accurate depiction of nuclear war.
threads is a genuinely horrifying movie
@@unclebruncle I couldn’t sleep for days after I saw it
By far my favorite is Judgement Day.
The special effects scene with Sara Connors at the playground fence is so real even today, 30 years later!
Definetly the most realistic blast. Agree.
man, all this nuclear war film clips make me thirsty, can someone give me a Nuka Cola?
for real nuka cola mix 1/3 Coca-cola 1/3 cream soda 1/3 mountain dew
thegamingdovah
ooh thanks for the recipe
+metallicfreak yw
osht thanks for reminding me, haven't been on fallout in a while...
ur so damn cringy ha ha
Not a movie but, I think we can all agree that the nuclear bomb scene from Call Of Duty 4 modern warfare was EPIC....
And some parts sad!
Tixial u mean modern warfare remastered
@Toxic GameZ no he means the actual game. Do you know what remastered means?
Ah fallout 4 was is better
Agree
TH-cam algorythm has got a very, very strange sense of humour...
Try being a British teenager when Threads was first shown in 1984 and you live 15 miles from Sheffield!
Yes, I was about 12 at the time. I watched a bit and then turned it off. I was already terrified about the prospect and that was too much.
I lived in Massachusetts USA at the time I saw that movie and was terrified there was a town called Sheffield there!
I remember there was a thing called Nukemares where people were having bad dreams after watching it
Terminator 2's nuclear bomb scene induced nightmares for me when I was a teenager.
Me too, still gets to me to this day
Me too
I like that its a legit air explosion, where the radiation hits everyone first and they start burning before the blast wave hits and destroys everything.
It was really sad.
I was like 21 or 22 and took my little brother, probably 10 or 11. I remember my heart pounding and being out of breath. I don't know what he thought of it.
Are you telling me that batman didnt have any auto pilot when he has vehicles locate him...
Exactly and that's why I think he isn't dead
+danny arellano I want to say the auto-pilot was damaged and so that was why he had to fly it out, but honestly it's been a while since I watched the movie.
+Lemar Maynard You think? Have you seen the movie all the way to the end? :P
+Capt. Teemo I guess no one paid attention to the last few minutes of the movie.
+Capt. Teemo yep I have seen all the way to the end
For me, the Day after was the most shocking moment in my life. I was 12 when this movie was shown. We all were very affraid of a nuclear war at this time. ANd this movie shows this so so realistic and shocking. This movie burned in my mind and i will never forget. Three years later the movie When The Wind Blows was shown. It had the same effect like The Day After. But in this movie it was shocking to see these lovely older couple dying after the explosion.
"Testament". Saddest movie ever made in this genre. Key part is you never see the bomb, just a quick flash thru the window.
Tight special effects budget?
@@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer Or maybe they were just in town, so they weren't near Ground Zero.
'Testicle Mints" ..another leftsit P.O.S. scare movie. Funny I don't remember seeing Jane Alexander in many of movies after THAT leftist abortion.
I dont want to set the world on fire...
I love fire. no homo.
I just wanna start a flame in your heart
And in my heart I have but one desire
And that one is you, no other will do
You just want to watch it burn?
People: sleeps
My brain:
booooo
Don't you mean sleep?
Why is this so relatable- like seriously whenever I’m about to fall asleep then I hear a weird noise I’m like-
iS tHAt aN AtOMiC bOMb?¿
*no sleep 4 u*
I had a dream that my city got nuked
"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb."
Underrated reference.
Batman.
“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb!” Great Adam West Batman reference! 👍👍👍
The wolverine one made me go "this isn't how this works.. This isn't how any of this works"
What
+MizuiroNo That scene nearly made me walk out on the film. It didn't get much better, though, so I should have.
+MizuiroNo I have to lol at that as well.
+MizuiroNo Right.....even if Wolverine could survive the radiation at near-ground-zero, that Japanese guy couldn't. And holding that metal plate on him would just give him a nice sear as that huge fireball cooked them both before the radiation could even kill them. It's not like heat conducts through metal or anything.
That's not even touching on the fact that the nuke looks fake as shit, and is ridiculously small for even the first nukes made. They, and everything else around should have been instantly vaporized, with no chance to "run" from anything.
Movie makers just really seem to have a hard time wrapping their head around how HUGE and instant a nuclear detonation is. It's not just a big regular explosion.
compmanio36 "do a big boom the audience loves this shit"
You forgot about Spongebob atomic pie bomb
SpongeBob was not a movie (well, it was, but I don't remember any bomb scenes.)
@@Danny-os1sf you know, when Squidward bought a pie from pirate and then give it to Spongebob as a gift, while Spongebob give him a sweater
xD
Classic joke
They all live in Bikini bottom..... you know the crater left behind by the Bikini Atoll H-bomb test!!!! Explains a lot doesn't it :D
The nuclear explosion in Terminator 2 is my all time favourite
Very realistic
The movie never bothered me as a child, now as a mom, fuck all that😂. I’m not watching it again. I can’t get that scene out of my head. Crazy thing, Cameron had letters written from nuke creators to him and crew for the accuracy!
Director James Cameron and his team once got a mail by actual nuclear scientists who commented that the Terminator 2 - Judgement Day nuclear explosion was one if not the most realistic one they saw on the big silver screen.
James Cameron and his SFX-team were proud and freightened at the same time when receiving this mail.
And not just due to the stunning visuals of this nuclear explosion but also by the virtue of being approved by actual scientists this nuclear explosion is my number one in this list.
My favorite quote comes from the man that helped invent these weapons. Albert Einstein "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." It scares the living daylights out of me to this day.
i love this quote to
me too. I love it and am scared of it because it's true.
with in my life time or my childerns it will come i just hope there is something left
Only thing is that Einstein had nothing to do with the construction of them boom booms...
Albert Einstein had nothing to do with the development of the atomic bomb. All he did was sign his name to a letter asking that President Roosevelt meet with some other scientists.
you forgot spongebob squarepants
linus726 wat!!?!?!!
linus726 I remember that episode lol
linus726 fu
Lol Plankton splitting the atoms, causing a nuclear explosion! Still my favorite scene from SpongerBob EVER!
which one exactly? there's way too much😂😂
All my Nuclear nightmares as a Kid in the 60's all coming back to be the new front page news.......
The wolverine might be the most unrealistic nuclear explosion ever.
I would take less than a second to reach them if this is a real life bomb like they drop in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
i would say the indiana jones one is the most realistic, if you ignore him surviving in that fridge. Because first things catch fire through the emitted thermal radiation and then the shockwave follows. i think it's in only scence that was accurate on that.
Everyone: We gotta take care of planet earth.
Watchmojo: What's your favorite nuclear bomb scene?
LMAO
LOL
Hehe
Hahahahaha wtf
You Serious?
Terminator 2: Judgement Day should have been number 1. That one scared the absolute HECK out of me as a kid.
Yeah that was basically a Tsunami of explosives
Your age alone, is what dictates your choice. I was a kid when Dr. Strangelove came out, so my terror, was equal to yours, two decades earlier. This list was a compilation of the top ten, and not just your limited time on the planet. I am willing to bet, that you have not seen it, because it is black and white, and therefore, not of interest to your generation.....
Dont worry guys in judgement there will be NO nukes..(terryfied noices) what if This happened before judgement day?
It IS the most realistic depiction of a nuclear explosion I've seen in movies, and, even then, I feel like it was toned down, even with the playground with the children and adults, reduced to ashes! At least their pain was only 15 to 20 seconds.
@@petergant8767 15 to 20 seconds is still too much.
“Testament” is an honorable mention. Threads and The Day After are the top 2. Each was relative to its audience, and is embedded in the memories of each who experienced it.
I firmly believe that Threads and The Day After should be replayed in 2022. People need to be reminded of the horror of nuclear exchanges.
Threads is legit scary
"You cannot win a nuclear war" a quote from Threads,
which then proceeds to show why that statement is true. That movie fucked up a lot of people, me included
Number nine
Indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull
More like fallout 4 kid in the fridge
More like Call of Duty Black ops
Multiplayer
Private match
Team death match
Nuketown
billy the kid in a fridge
@@yaxishotdog that ungrateful twat
Billy, why did you have to do this
Haha that was my 1. thought as well XD
"Threads" was a stunning and terrifying piece of work. Trust the Brits not to sugar-coat things.
You mention seeing some of the aftermath in "The Day After." You got the same thing in "Threads" -- 10 years later.
I'm a brit
It still haunts me ever so often. What an amazing series.
That’s right we don’t
Threads is too scary and depressing to watch more than once. It's the only nuclear war film that goes all in on the aftermath. If a nuclear war starts its better to get vaporised than be a survivor.
"Broken Arrow"--without a doubt! One of the coolest explosion scenes from any movie!
Who's here after puttin orders nuclear 500 times bigger than this
All gather your Nuka cola
Stimpaks
And RadAways.
Over used joke
and radx
+DeadZonez what about beer
+DeadZonez AND FAT MANS!
+DeadZonez get buckets of Rad-Xs
Remember guys, if the mushroom cloud is smaller than the size of your thumb, you're safe!
But my thumb is only a few centimetres mushroom clouds are always loads bigger
cucumber cat spike funk claw omg stfu
Cayden yeah, thats gotta be the most helpful tip for surviving a nuclear attack
That is the Pipboy!
William Goo About time someone got the damn reference. A lot of people don't know that the pip boy for Fallout with one eye shut and his thumb up with a big smile on his face is actually him measuring the nuclear mushroom cloud.
A well conceived and executed production. Thank you for creating and uploading this
"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." Unfortunately, I'm old enough to get that joke. Great job!
Nuclear Bomb Scenes in Video Games!
i can only think of like 4
***** Nah Raccoon City wins by far
Gandhi - Civilization 5
empire earth 1 :D good old days
Command an Conquer series, Crysis, World in Conflict, Resident Evil 3, Half Life: Opposing Force, FEAR, Fallout 3, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon, Call of Duty.
The scene from Dr. Strangelove with Maj. Kong riding that bomb like a bronco never gets old.
Major King had the right idea, riding the bomb down to ground zero, everything over in a second!
I was predicting Stargate (all time fav) but I forgot all about Dr Strangelove
if i had to die a nuclear weapon this is how I would die
Whats the point of not telling the world about your doomsday weapon eh!
@@craigleverone414 "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
the best top 10 vid i’ve seen from y’all
Dr Strangelove does it for me along with Threads, Classics years later ❤️❤️❤️
Personally, "The Day After" should have been No. 1 when the bombs went off, they had a sort of groaning sound to them as though the thousands of people who died groaned their last.
Totally agree. Also the special effects of the time gave the mushroom clouds a more terrifying, raw appearance. CGI today would make them to sharp and clean looking (if that makes sense?)
I have this made for TV movie. I was in my middle twenties when it first aired. Even as an adult male scared the hell out of me. Oh The Day After was watched by 100.000.000 people that night.
@Chewy Cook
You obviously haven't watched "Threads" (1984). Threads does a much better job depicting what life would be like after an all-out nuclear exchange.
You obviously haven't seen the BBC's superior THREADS!
Chewy cook, if you think the day after was terrifying, watch threads.
Whew, glad I got into this lead lined fridge. Now to just exit into this totally safe and non-irradiated environment.
with a built in full-body-brace!
Tregeta He had to go through decontamination. Did you not hear the Geiger Counter in the movie?
A lot of the dangerous fallout takes time to settle. If he were somehow uninjured by the sheer kinetic energy of the blast, he would have been protected from the instantaneous release of gamma rays by the lead, and could possibly escape much of the fallout if he acted quickly.
Everything has become irradiated regardless of the fallout.
Dan Kelly if you're protected from, or far away not to be injured by the blast, you're safe from the prompt gamma emission. For anything above 3kt, the 5psi blast radius (enough to crush civilian building, and definetly kill anyone in the open) the distance at which you'll be killed from prompt neutron and gammas is less. So will all currently stockpiled weapons, prompt gammas and neutrons aren't a problem, unless you're in a tank or something.. In a tank, you'll survive over 10 psi, but the neutron flux will get you.
who is watching this in 2022 amid Russia-Ukraine conflict?
2 aliens are talking in outer space, looking down on Earth.
"It seems the inhabitants of planet Earth have created nuclear technology and missiles" says one alien
"are they showing signs of intelligence?" asks the other
"I dont think so. They seem to be aiming at themselves"
Shame North Korea can only imagine this.
North Koreans cant watch youtube, also I'm English.. -_-
matty carter My toilet paper is english LOLOOL
Congratulations, that's probably a lie since you have minimum trade with everyone except China.
+00maniacmanny00 If DPRK tried anything on the US, the US would turn it into glass.
How could I have been so blind?
War. War never changes...
first fallout comment i saw
cesar cantu Heh hehh. I figured someone would get it...You know, I wouldn't mind seeing a modern remake of Threads or The Day After with some post-apocalyptic scavenging and shootouts. I bet modern CGI would make those flicks even scarier.
Righteo.
Plato said: "Only the dead have seen the end of war!"
The residual effects, over time, of radiological weapons are a tad more lethal.
Is Fukushima's fallout, (since 3/1/11) > or < Hiroshima's once, 71 years ago?
+axel4196 funny just watched them a few days ago before I saw this I love to see them remade actually a few good ones out there that needs to be remade
Because baby, i dont want to set the world on fire.....
My favorite is the Day After. Since I refuse to live in the aftermath of nuclear war, the scenes of those people being vaporized is how I want to go. You won't feel it.
The explosion: the day after
The aftermath: threads
You'd probably feel it, but, it'd be over in a second, if you were close to Ground Zero!
I always come back to this video every year just to get my self accompanied to what is possible at any time:)
I was trommatized by the movie “The Day After” as a kid. I couldn’t sleep with the lights out ever since.
You should try watching the BBC drama/ documentary threads made around the same time as The Day After. It will give you the grim statistics as well as a brilliant drama about the build up the actual detonation and the aftermath of life in Britain 10 years after the world war 3
mee too
@@chrisholland7367 Its called Threads.
KegPatcha , your parents shouldn't have let you watch that.
RustiSwordz he said that
why .. why wasn't Terminator 3 ending not in this list ..
T3 nuclear attack was horrifying. They probably didn't want to do two movies from the same series.
Because Terminator 3 was a festering pile of shit spewing anal vomit that I wouldn't even show to my worst enemies. That "movie" and every subsequent shitty sequel can all burn in a nuclear holocaust.
Jack M I disagree. Terminator 2's ending was perfect. It left things ambiguous and hopeful that the protagonists efforts had averted Judgement Day. The open ended nature of it allowed viewers to use their imagination and interpret their own fate of the human race.
Then Terminator 3 came along and dick slapped us with a shitty and frankly insulting ending where humanity was boned anyway which only left it open to two more horrifyingly bad sequels.
Terminator 3 can suck my taint! As far as I'm concerned, every movie after 2 aren't canon and are just shitty cash grabs made by directors with the mental intelligence of bad fanfic writers.
Mark Haynes
I think the quality of the movie or reviews is irrelevant to the point. It's top 10 nuclear bomb scenes ... not Top 10 Movies that happen to have nuclear bomb scenes.
Mark Haynes Well don't hold back, tell us what you really think of it!
0:42 I get blinded just by looking at phone after a sleep in pitch black and this man this man didn't even flinch when he saw an portable sun😂
You forgot the bomb from Angels and Demons. That scene was epic!
Who else thought “NUKETOWN” with the Indiana Jones one
Edit: lol just watched an evolution of nuke town vid and found how it was actually inspired by the film
No one asked tf
Tf
@@Pheon456 you are the chosen one
@@Pheon456 chill
The ones from Godzilla are actually real denotations.
*detonations
+Tim G Except for the final shot of the shockwave rolling over the camera perspective. But you knew that I'm sure.
+Tim G Strangelove`s and Threads` too.
+Tim G but isnt that illegal?
Average Alien
What's illegal?
Thank you for mentioning Dr. Stranglove. Thought the end of Stranglove was wonderful.
The underwater detonation at the end of "American Assassin" should be on the list. A couple of others; the drone attack against the space ship in "Skyline" was the only good scene of that movie. The nuke at the beginning of "Peacemaker" starring
George Clooney and Nicole Kidman was pretty cool.
The Day After was one of the most impactful and horrifying movies of all time. Aside from being the highest rated TV movie, it also aired all over the world, even the USSR, and is in large part responsible for the halt to the arms race that threatened the entire planet. Very hard to find on DVD or Bluray these days, but it's an absolute must for collectors.
i saw that movie almost 30 years ago, it sure wins #1 as a movie to display the impact of nuclear war. but the list title doesn't sound to be discussing that. if it's just about nuclear bombs then it must have mushrooms (excluding all space detonations) . my #1 choice would be "sum of all fears" ....it shows the shock wave in amazing way, and the mushroom displayed wafter the glow, not exactly what we think of or the ideal mushroom shape (which is a bold move by the director) but yeah, the bomb was collected from 30 years old ordinance and assembled in garage-like environment
Absolutely. I watched it when it was first aired on TV, and the chills still get me when I see it today. The scene where the woman in a rural Nebraska home is tidying the house in preparation for wedding guests' arrival when a bright glow comes through the window, and the audience can see that a missile is launching from its underground silo... she sees it and furiously increases her effort to make the bed. Her husband comes in and tells her they have to get to the shelter, but she pushes him away without saying a word... He attempts to grab her but she starts pounding on his chest, and he again tells her they have to go, now.
She sobs and screams at the same time.
I may have gotten some of this wrong as it is coming straight from my memory... but just the thought of it. It's a nice day; the weather is fine, everyone is healthy, just a normal, pleasant day... and every one of them knows it's all over. Done. They are all dead, essentially, and that's if they're the lucky ones that got to die quickly. All the hope that the powers that be would turn this around and not push the button are things of the past; mutually assured destruction is now a fact. Once those missiles they saw went up, it was over.
Everything they grew up with, the country and culture they were a part of, all of the things that occupy our day-to-day lives like work, watching TV, and having weddings... it's all gone, even while everything still looks exactly the same as it ever was (now that the ICBM has faded from view).
That, for me, was the most horrifying part of the movie-- watching the American missiles go up, knowing that all hope is lost and everyone's fate is sealed. More so than watching the detonation of the Soviet weapons (though that was a close second).
I've never really been one to be scared by movies. The usual ones that everyone mentions as being the most scary (Exorcist, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien, Children of the Corn, etc.) never did it for me... entertaining, at times, but not enough to really cause much of an emotional reaction. I was always too aware that it was a movie to feel anything myself.
The Day After was different. It was fiction, of course, but it could have been real, in a way that none of the other movies could. Even though the Cold War is over now, thus putting TDA more into the group of can't happen movies (though nuclear war can still happen; it just won't be as portrayed), I still remember when the Cold War was real, so it will always be real to me.
I wonder if a younger person who only knows about the Cold War from class in school would react the same way to this movie as those of us who lived it.
This was a reply to Karl, btw. It looks like I was responding to crowxe...
The Day After is good - but Threads is better, as it goes much further into the post War Nuclear winter and the generations afterwards
Michael Bater , my mind set is still into best detonation moments. sum of all fears shocked me when the hero couldn't save the day as it usually should happen and high pressure and vacuum waves hit the chopper and the rest of scenes related to the blast
Threads, which I saw at 13, was the most terrifying movie I've ever watched. Still. They REALLY amped up the human drama and breakdown of civilization. To see it in the 80s when it was "relevant" was a singular experience. The Day After was great also, but a picnic next to Threads. D.A., NYC
Threads and the Day After are my all time favorites. It gives me a real (almost) perspective of the horror that awaits us if God forbid anything like this happens.
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT THIS IS A PERFECT VIDEO FOR THE MOVIE THAT JUST CAME OUT. PERFECT TIMING. HAVE YOU HEARD OF BARBIE??? good list!
Threads was one of the most darkest bleakest films I’ve ever seen. Incredibly depressing and realistic.
This.
The full on effects and long term issues are far worse than illustrated. They have a budget to deal with for movies.
Nuclear winter, the oceans are devoid of all life. Two weeks after the first strikes, the other side decides to toss a few more bombs to please the crowds of "survivors".
@@pabloleonardo it was pretty good but Threads was way more disturbing and terrifying
@@pabloleonardo I remember watching it as it was aired for the first time. I was disturbed for days and got more interested in nuclear power and it's peaceful uses. My Physics teach was a former nuke sub reactor engineer and really hammered the point home on how devastating those missiles were in the boomer subs.
Threads is the most disturbing film I've ever seen.
Instead of saying, "jumping the shark," my friend now refers to it as, "nuking the fridge." Thanks part 4.
So, I am just wondering. Why is it that people can believe that Indy can go on two rails in a mine cart, jump from one track to another in said mine cart, stop said mine cart with his feet (without the friction rubbing them into stumps), Fall out of an airplane 1000+ feet in the air in a rubber raft, float gently back to earth (without dying in said raft), then sled down a mountain (without freezing to death), and finally fall off of a 1000+ foot cliff and (again) gently land on a river RIGHT SIDE UP, yet they draw the line at surviving a nuclear explosion in a lead-lined refrigerator? Why is that? Won't anyone tell me?
@@russwaddel08 I don't believe that any of those stunts are believable in real life. It's a fictional movie so I apply a suspension of disbelief when I view those films. However, Temple of Doom is an awesome film while The Crystal Skull is terrible movie.
P.S. The Last Crusade is the best of the bunch. Cheers!
True Lies, Cloverfield, and Aliens have really nice nuke scenes too!
I’m looking for a specific clip and I came here for it. I saw it in a movie one time and it gave me chills, I hope I find it
Did you get it?
"Threads" is most grimly realistic in it's ending prediction of the live's and deaths of the survivors, right down to the birthing clinic. A very frank Anglo film.
@Geoff Shaw OMG I forgot that one. Threads is really maybe the best such TV prediction ever. By comparison, "The Day After" is a picnic American fantasy with an up beat off to the woods ending.
I saw Threads once on You Tube before it became unavailable. Also commendable about Threads is it made the government out to be the (even more) brutal thing it actually would become.
I'm mad that barefoot gen was not even mentioned that had by far the most creepy bomb sequence
right? that shit scarred me as a kid
@@entr0pixthe worst part is the visuals
I suspect that was a little bit too real for this list. They're trying to keep it light, or light-ish.
@@integral makes sense, but it is still stupid to make that the reason to not add it
That was horrible to watch my God
I was in the beginning half of my undergrad in college when this came out, can't believe it's been that long since undergrad college.
Hands down, "Barefoot Gen" has the best atomic bomb scene in a movie, even though it s animated. It lacks the BOOM factor found in Hollywood scenes, but it is so eerie and visceral with its gore depicted in slow-motion. Everyone remembers the image of the child's eyes falling out of their sockets before disintegrating, but the brief shot of the girl half-charred is just as haunting despite being on screen for less than a second.
Not to mention, Hollywood never (?) depicts the "ghouls" in the aftermath - the burn victims with no eyes and skin dripping off their limbs blindly stumbling around. Yeah, that's a thing. I've only seen it in a live-action film once: an old Japanese film called "Black Rain".
the Indiana Jones neighborhood looked like fallout 4
Eww It's Him yup also like nuke town
I Couldn't Think Of A Username so I made this one it is nuketown, that's were treyarch got there inspiration
Eww It's Him fallout 4 is based on the 1950s idea of the future indania Jones in the 1950s
Eww It's Him it’s nuketown
I Couldn't Think Of A Username so I made this one im sure Nuke Town was inspired by this
@1:40 Nevada Test Site, not Nebraska...
Kenny I actually didn’t know that
War. War never changes
Nuketown
If the nuke test site were in Nebraska, you kind of wonder if anyone would’ve noticed.
@@redrust3 actually yeah they would notice because Strategic Air Command was in Omaha Nebraska.
It may not of had the best visual effects, but I think we all know *Threads* wins here.
Man the intro is so nostalgic. Reminds me of better times
Pretty sure Indy was in Nevada not Nebraska
Ahhh top left corner
+RobnJake yeah i thought that to!
+RobnJake yeah nevada the guy reading the scrip is an idiot
+bloodangel0412 Whoever WROTE the manuscript, was an idiot
+RobnJake there is a refernce to the scene in Fallout New Vegas which is set in where ? Nevada.
Iron Giant?
meh
Hodor Hodor?
Hodor Hodor?
Fabled Majestic Demo Mordor?
that was a good one
Bombs in 2022: Before I hit this city, I would like to thank our sponsor Raid: Shadow Legends for sponsoring this bomb strike.
I am sure that at the end of the world at the last millisecond of earth's existence the last human will see what we saw
-George kistiakowsky
Am I the only fucking person who DIDN'T hate Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!? AM I!?
I'm not saying it's perfect. Far from it, but I think it's OK.
no your not
Evan O no indiana jones movie is bad
I liked it
Evan O dude I loved the series second best film Harrison ford is in besides Star Wars
The Iron Giant! “You stay, I go. No following.” *begin weeping*
Iron giant : Superman
Why
@@Charlie-od3vp Iron giant will try to stop a nuclear missile attack by sacrificing his life
@@sivaneshbalan898 but he's not dead
@@TerraGreatestLoveMachine yes bro...but that scene will be shown like that
The cameraman is a legend for getting these scenes for us.
Just saw threads for the first time like 3 days ago. Never going to forget that movie.
Watching this video almost makes you wished for a Nuclear Winter.
(If you get this reference.)
+White343 Once in a blue Moon! (Thats a reference to the same thing.. i know what you mean Ranger ;) )
+lpmarkusfan ah yes, I remember Vegas.
yea...vegas...but..if you excuse me....there is an Commonwealth to conquer
+lpmarkusfan Alright, aaaaand the Legion Remnant on South East are still putting up crosses with dying tribes men after Hoover.
Well in this vid you see 10 god examples how to deal with them, may the Atom with you, a good aim with your Fatman and all the fortune of vegas for you ^^
Anyone remember the Nuke rocket launcher from Starship Troopers? That one was badass too. The first time they shot it at a bug in the beginning of the movie, and then later on when they shot it into a cave.
That movie is so awesome all n all lol
zamardii12 I used to use that bit to show off my then new sub woofer I had to literally everyone who came over.
+Michael idKdjikauehay
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+zamardii12 Amazing, I love that movie.
I do,it was fairly awesome,I watched it again recently..so yeah.
Man the special fx from T2 hasn't age at all, one of the terrified graphic scene in Hollywood history... Hats off to Cameron
Nebraska? I think you meant nevada test sight, but good content! Like the idea
'Threads' scared the living tar out of me as a child. Terrifying film.
SirJambon lol yo its mr jambon, didnt realize till i already clicked reply, love your vids. im 33, never seen it, but idk it looks terrifying, in the way old movies have this creepy factor all the cgi just cant capture, gonna bookmark it for later, looks good.
+James Williams 777
I'm 30 and I saw it last year and it scared me THEN. So realistic and gritty. I don't get scared of films but man it makes you think!
Rich Lawson
+SirJambon Threads - a british movie - in my opinion is by far the most terrifying war movie I've ever seen in my life. The second part after the bombing is really unbearable.(sorry for my bad English !). In 1964 BBC had published a first one "The War Game" (found on TH-cam) in the same style.
+SirJambon I agree completely. Threads scared the crap out of me too. Especially the very last scene where the girl gives birth and looks at her baby and just screams.
All we know is that if this happens, the survivors will envy the deads...
What do you prefer : a slow painful death or a quick very painful death ?
@@renauddefrance.at.eurostep1409 quick pls, I don't wanna struggle just to die another day
@@renauddefrance.at.eurostep1409 if you melt in parts of seconds your nerves arent fast enough to tell your brain that it hurts
@@xj9779 gotta be better than your skin falling off your bones while your still alive
So your honestly telling me that you would shoot yourself in the face rather than live without the internet? Because I wouldn't even feel at tremor much less actually be at risk of dying of acute radiation poisoning and you can bet that I won't be ending my own life just because a whole bunch of other people died.
2:46 if u watched the ending of dark knight rises Bruce Wayne actually survived he did complete the automatic self drive then he jumped off the batwing and landed in the water
Still seems like he'd have gotten an unhealthy dose of radiation, being that close to an exploding nuke, but, this IS fantasy! I'll allow it!
B/w Japanese film Black Rain (1989), about Hiroshima and its aftermath. Also True Lies, and the Nostromo blowing at the end of Alien. And what about Empire of the Sun, with that weird dot of light on the horizon which we later learn is Hiroshima...?
Who was happy when it was just a dream!
Boris production OMG I HAD LIKE 2 NUKE DREAMS SO FAR... THEY WERE SO FREAKIN SCARY
I dreamed once that north-korea nuked japan, and you could see the mushroom cloud in germany.
Me
Most common nightmare in my dreams.
Boris Production I had a dream where North Korea nuked downtown San Diego. (I live in la Mesa)
10/23/77
October 23, 2077, the day that mankind plunged itself into nuclear war, Who dropped the first bomb? No one will ever know, This is just another bloody chapter in human history, because War... War Never changes.
+ItsFoxer CHINA c:
+ItsFoxer re posting your comment at the top :)
+ItsFoxer
Thats not how it goes but close enough
''Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing
power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of
everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
In the year 2077,
after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could
sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear
fire and radiation.
But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world.
Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody
chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world -
but war, war never changes.
In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the
holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them - all except those in Vault 101.For on that fateful day when fire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Vault 101 slid closed... and never reopened. It was here you were born. It is here you will die.
Because, in Vault 101: no one ever enters, and no one ever leaves''
+Massacre Temple Fuck Fallout 4, Fallout 3 RULES! :D
Animatrix: The Second Renaissance, Part 2... those scenes are scary!
The sum of all fears scene where the President runs out of the stadium is awesome.