The Most Terrifying Nuclear War Movies Ever Made - Telescope

0:00 Intro

0:23 Dr. Strangelove (1964)

2:13 Threads (1984)

4:11 The Day After (1983)

6:07 Fail Safe (1964)

7:49 On the Beach (1959)

9:37 The War Game (1966)

11:10 Testament (1983)

12:44 By Dawn's Early Light (1990)

14:25 When the Wind Blows (1986)

16:04 Special Bulletin (1983)

17:49 Wargames (1983)

19:39 The Bedford Incident (1965)

21:09 Hiroshima mon Amour (1959)

22:45 Panic in Year Zero (1962)

24:06 The Divide (2011)

25:25 The Sacrifice (1986)

26:35 Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)

27:13 A Boy and His Dog (1975)

28:34 Damnation Alley (1977)

29:29 Threads from Hiroshima (2011)\

30:09 Outro

Look at the dates of these films.  If you ever wonder why GenX and younger Baby Boomers don't take Millennials seriously, watch all of the films listed above in your formative years.  

I have written here many times before, of how as a child, my school had "Tornado" and "Storm" drills, that were in reality "Nuclear War" drills.  Look up "Duck and Cover", better yet here is just ONE of the films we watched as a kid, IN OUR CLASSROOM.

And there were many, MANY other films, teaching us how to react to a nuclear blast, how to survive AFTER a nuclear bomb went off.  Yes, they actually sent out 16mm films to schools across the United States, to instruct us on how to survive in the aftermath of a NUCLEAR WAR.  Don't believe me?  Here is an entire PLAYLIST of Civil Defense Films, that were sent to local theaters and schools, to be shown to the public.

Nuclear Age, Atomic Bomb & Fallout   Civil Defense Films by PeriscopeFilm

Click on that link to go watch those films for yourself.

I grew up with those films being shown to me.  Hundreds of thousands of other young impressionable kids were also shown those films.  We were told to keep an eye out for the Civil Defense Shelter placards

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Almost every brick and concrete building had one of those signs on it, denoting either a shelter was in the building or they had an office for Civil Defense usage.

Again, I gre up with this.  Every day, for years until FINALLY, we hoped, SANITY broke out.

But for my and many others, formative years, we lived under the oppressive atmosphere and dread of the idea of Nuclear Annihilation.  It kind of warped our personalities, and our sense of the absurd.  For some, I truly think it broke them, hence all of the stupidity going on currently on one side of the political aisle.  But even on the other side, there is stupidity.  It's just that one side has idea which are to destroy the very idea and foundation of our nation, the other is to destroy the very idea of our laws and Rights.  I and many others find both sides repugnant and hateful.

But when you are having a conversation with a person, please don't discount them and what they are saying out of hand.  Try to think of what they lived through, the trauma that shaped them and their views.