Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Jun Fukuda
Writer(s):   Hideichi Nagahara Ryûzô Nakanishi
Studio:  Toho Company, Toho Pictures
Year Released:  1977        Running Time:  85 min
Genre:  Action, Adventure, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and War
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  After aliens attack Earth, a team takes their cutting-edge space battleship to Venus to destroy the aliens' base
TDA Checklist Items:  Iconic landmark destroyed and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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- Not available on Vudu
The War Game (1965)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Peter Watkins
Writer(s):   Peter Watkins
Studio:  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Year Released:  1966        Running Time:  48 min
Genre:  Documentary, Drama, and War
Category of Disaster:  Manmade, Nuclear, and War
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  92%
Plot Snapshot:  Although winning an Oscar for Best Documentary, this is the fictional account of a nuke hitting a random British city.
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG
Director(s):   Jimmy T. Murakami
Writer(s):   Raymond Briggs
Studio:  Meltdown Productions, British Screen Productions, Film Four International
Year Released:  1986        Running Time:  80 min
Genre:  Animation and Drama
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Nuclear
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  80%
Plot Snapshot:  When nuclear war breaks out, an elderly couple believe that the UK government will see them through, just as they did in World War II.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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The White Dwarf (Valkoinen kääpiö) (1986)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Timo Humaloja
Writer(s):   Bo Carpelan Timo Humaloja
Studio:  Panfilmi
Year Released:  1986        Running Time:  90 min
Genre:  Drama
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Nuclear
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  A nuclear accident in Russia causes a blackout and fallout in nearby Finland, affecting a mining engineer who's underground in the dark
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World Trade Center (2006)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  PG-13
Director(s):   Oliver Stone
Writer(s):   Andrea Berloff
Studio:  Paramount Pictures, Double Feature Films, Intermedia Films
Year Released:  2006        Running Time:  129 min
Genre:  Drama, History, and Thriller
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Terrorism
Ratings:
    Metascore:  66/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  68%
Plot Snapshot:  Dramatization of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Focuses on two actual police officers who helped evacuate the buildings, becoming trapped themselves.
TDA Checklist Items:  Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:Zapretnaya zona (Forbidden Zone) (1988)
Movie Type:  Feature film         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Nikolay Gubenko
Writer(s):   Nikolay Gubenko
Studio:  Mosfilm
Year Released:  1988        Running Time:  94 min
Genre:  Drama, History, Horror, and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Bomb/explosion, Manmade, and Nuclear
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  With the 1986 nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant as a backdrop, four American travelers find out that radiation can cause some very unpleasant effects at night.
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Zucker (Sugar) (1989)
Movie Type:  TV movie         MPAA Rating:  NR
Director(s):   Rainer Erler
Writer(s):   Rainer Erler
Studio:  Books & Films, Pentagramma, Reflex Film Ltd.
Year Released:  1989        Running Time:  109 min
Genre:  Comedy and Sci-Fi
Category of Disaster:  Manmade and Runaway technology
Ratings:
    Metascore:  --/100     Rotten Tomatoes:  --%
Plot Snapshot:  Increasing competition between married researchers leads to development of a bacteria that turns paper into sugar, wreaking havoc everywhere.
TDA Checklist Items:  Estranged family members and Spectacle (e.g., stuff blows up reeeel good)
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Links to Buy/Rent:- Not available on Amazon
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