Still, the movie seems to sympathize with many Americans’ misplaced faith in the remoteness of nuclear war. “There’s a plan ...

Cold War movies like The Manchurian Candidate and The Lives of Others are, sadly, more relevant than ever in today's highly ...

In Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, the clock is ticking. The film’s fictional president of the United States has less than 20 minutes and very little information to decide whether or ...

Imagine a nuclear warhead is hurtling straight toward us, with only 18 minutes to respond before a major city is obliterated. The movie was conceived by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, who has ...

Generation-defining nuclear-war movies seem to come in pairs. Stanley Kubrick’s bleak satire “Dr. Strangelove” arrived in 1964, the same year as Sidney Lumet’s even bleaker Cold War drama “Fail Safe.” ...

SPOILER ALERT: This is a nuclear posture review, not a movie review, of Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, and discusses in detail the realism or lack thereof of specific scenarios and plot lines ...

One of the climactic moments in A House of Dynamite is a friendly reminder. Captain Olivia Walker (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is in the White House Situation Room where, moments earlier, her team ...

This British television film didn’t rely on special effects spectacle or action-driven storytelling. Instead, it calmly and methodically depicted what a nuclear exchange would actually mean for ...

The story of how an ABC film in 1983 changed President Reagan's mind about the threat of nuclear annihilation.