This selection of films was screened at Cinemareno's Nevada Museum of Art's Atomic Film Festival in March 2004. It was originally cited in the Upcoming Events / Resistance is Life Affirming section of the Health Costs of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation.
Saturday |
PLUTONIUM
CIRCUS (1995) - This hilarious documentary looks at the
PanTex nuclear weapons
factory near Amarillo, Texas and the zany folks that live
and work in and around it. Directed by
George Ratliff, 73 mins. |
Saturday |
THE DAY AFTER
TRINITY (1980) - Oscar-nominated documentary provides a
haunting journey through the dawn of the nuclear age. An
incisive history of the Manhattan Project and the man
behind it,
J. Robert Oppenheimer. Directed by Jon Else, 89 mins. |
Saturday |
ATOMIC CAFE (1982) - At once funny,
sobering and shocking, this brilliant compilation of
propaganda films, atomic test films and newsreel footage
provides an entertaining overview of the atomic age and
the pervasive anxiety it created in cold-war America. 88
mins. |
Saturday |
ON THE BEACH (1959) - 45th Anniversary
screening. Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins and
Fred Astaire star in Stanley Kramer's powerful and
haunting adaptation of Nevil Shute's best-selling novel
about Australians living out their remaining days after
the rest of the world has destroyed itself from nuclear
war. In wide-screen CinemaScope format, 134 mins. |
Sunday |
MELTDOWN AT
THREE MILE ISLAND (1999) (Free) - A riveting documentary
that details the events of March 28, 1979 when the worst
nuclear accident in U.S. history occurred at a power
plant in Pennsylvania. 60 mins. Full-festival pass
holders get priority seating. |
Sunday |
THE CHINA
SYNDROME (1979) - 25th Anniversary screening. Jack Lemmon,
Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas star in this suspenseful
story of a nuclear power plant accident. Eerily, it
accurately foreshadowed the events at Three Mile Island,
which occurred only 12 days after the film premiered in
March 1979. In wide-screen format, 121 mins. |
Sunday |
PANIC IN YEAR
ZERO (1962) - Ray Milland directed and starred in this
rare 1962 cult classic. An apocalyptic tale of survival
about a family escaping a nuclear attack on Los Angeles.
With Jean Hagen and Frankie Avalon. In wide-screen
CinemaScope format, 92 mins. |
Sunday |
DR.
STRANGELOVE (1964) - 40th Anniversary screening.
Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley
Kubrick's cold-war classic is the ultimate satire of the
nuclear age, a perfect spoof of political and military
insanity that gets funnier with each viewing. With Peter
Sellers, Sterling Hayden and George C. Scott. In
wide-screen format, 93 mins. |