Dark Days

While the marvels of the Atomic Age brought much promise there was also the dark side of the horror of nuclear radiation, cold war propaganda and civil unrest. The Dark Side examines some of the Atomic Age fears of the era from radioactive b-movie monsters to nightmare post-nuclear war scenarios.

• The Philadelphia Experiment
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• Kanal (1957)
• The Wages of Fear (1953)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• The Terror (1963)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• Day of the Triffids (1962)
• Creature From The Haunted Sea (1961)
• This Island Earth (1955)
• The Lost Missile (1958)
• Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
• The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
• A Strange Adventure (1956)
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• Atomic Energy as a Force for Good (1955)
• The House in the Middle (1954)
• Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation (1950)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• By Dawn’s Early Light (1990)
• When the Wind Blows (1986)
• Occupying a Shelter
• The Day Called X (1955)
• Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow
• Radiological Defense (1961)
• Duck and Cover (1951)
• Monsters of the Atomic Age!
• Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
• The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• The Big Picture: Atomic Bomb
• The Atomic Cafe (1982)
• Threads (1984)
• Them! (1954)
• Atomic Age Vampire