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Let's face it: That much touted American Film Institute list of a few years ago was one of the laziest exercises in modern list-making since Entertainment Weekly began publication. The average person could sneeze out a hundred films in their sleep and be reasonably assured of duplicating 75% of the AFI's stunningly mainstream cinematic enumeration.

The CONELRAD 100, on the other hand, is a highly specialized and, in some cases downright obscure, round-up by and for the Atomic film connoisseur Many of these titles you may never have heard of. But that's what makes this list DIFFERENT, educational and, above all, FUN.

Over the past four years, the editors of CONELRAD spent numerous hours watching and researching 300 motion pictures with Atomic and/or Red Scare/Cold War themes. From this collection we revved up the particle separator and painstakingly pared the list down to a clean 100.

But unlike the AFI's collection, this list is not cast in stone. We invite spirited debate and submissions of Atomic tites we may have missed. CONELRAD will soon be presenting a fully searchable database of ALL three hundred films that we came across in determining the big 100. Eventually, we will repost a democratically elected 100, but for now we offer these films for fiery discussion purposes. So have at it!

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  1. 1 new

    Above and Beyond

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 2 new

    The Amazing Colossal Man

    1957, in 0 top lists Check
  3. 3 new

    Armageddon

    1998, in 4 top lists Check
  4. 4 new

    The Atomic Cafe

    1982, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 5 new

    The Atomic Kid

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 70 new

    Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 7 new

    The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
  8. 8 new

    The Beast of Yucca Flats

    1961, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 9 new

    The Bedford Incident

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 10 new

    Beginning of the End

    1957, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 67 new

    Beneath the Planet of the Apes

    1970, in 1 top list Check
  12. 41 new

    Bijo to ekitai ningen

    1958 — a.k.a. The H-Man, in 1 top list Check
  13. 12 new

    A Boy and His Dog

    1975, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 13 new

    Broken Arrow

    1996, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 14 new

    By Dawn's Early Light

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 15 new

    Captive Women

    1952 — a.k.a. 3000 A.D., in 0 top lists Check
  17. 16 new

    The China Syndrome

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  18. 17 new

    Colossus: The Forbin Project

    1970 — a.k.a. The Day the World Changed Hands, in 1 top list Check
  19. 69 new

    Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 19 new

    Crimson Tide

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  21. 20 new

    Damnation Alley

    1977 — a.k.a. Survival Run, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 91 new

    The Damned

    1962 — a.k.a. These Are the Damned, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 21 new

    Dark Circle

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 22 new

    The Day After

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 23 new

    The Day After Trinity

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 24 new

    The Day the Earth Caught Fire

    1961 — a.k.a. The Day the Sky Caught Fire, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 25 new

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
  28. 26 new

    The Day the Fish Came Out

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 27 new

    Day the World Ended

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 28 new

    The Dead Zone

    1983, in 1 top list Check
  31. 29 new

    Def-Con 4

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 30 new

    Desert Bloom

    1986, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 31 new

    Disaster at Silo 7

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 32 new

    Doomsday Machine

    1972 — a.k.a. Armageddon 1975, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 33 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  36. 34 new

    Duck and Cover

    1952, in 1 top list Check
  37. 68 new

    Escape from the Planet of the Apes

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 35 new

    Fail Safe

    1964, in 6 top lists Check
  39. 38 new

    Five

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 18 new

    Il giorno prima

    1987 — a.k.a. Control, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 39 new

    Gojira

    1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check
  42. 40 new

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  43. 42 new

    Hell and High Water

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  44. 43 new

    Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
  45. 36 new

    Ikimono no kiroku

    1955 — a.k.a. I Live in Fear, in 1 top list Check
  46. 44 new

    The Incredible Shrinking Man

    1957, in 10 top lists Check
  47. 45 new

    Invasion, U.S.A.

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  48. 46 new

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  49. 50 new

    La jetée

    1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check
  50. 47 new

    Killers from Space

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
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Last updated on Apr 26, 2012; source