THEME EXPLORATION

atomic bombing

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
2023 · Christopher Nolan
Paradise Now
Paradise Now
2005 · Hany Abu-Assad
Rhapsody in August
Rhapsody in August
1991 · Akira Kurosawa
Lover, Come Back to Me
Lover, Come Back to Me
1983 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Slacker
Slacker
1991 · Richard Linklater
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
1944 · William Wyler
4 Little Girls
4 Little Girls
1997 · Spike Lee
Black Rain
Black Rain
1989 · Shohei Imamura
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
2012 · Peter Greenaway
The Silencers
The Silencers
1966 · Phil Karlson
Shack and puppets
Shack and puppets
1954 · Sergio Corbucci
Patriots Day
Patriots Day
2016 · Peter Berg
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Akira Kurosawa Japan

His film 'Rhapsody in August' directly confronts the psychological and generational trauma of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki through a family's reckoning with their past.

 Stanley Kubrick United States

'Dr. Strangelove' uses dark satire to explore the existential horror of nuclear war and atomic annihilation as absurdist commentary on Cold War politics.