CONELRAD 100
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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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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
88 new
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
87 new
The Terminator
1984, in 24 top lists Check -
66 new
Planet of the Apes
1968, in 16 top lists Check -
50 new
La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
40 new
Goldfinger
1964, in 15 top lists Check -
48 new
Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
77 new
Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
25 new
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951, in 12 top lists Check -
46 new
The Iron Giant
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
39 new
Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
44 new
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
101 new
The War Game
1966, in 12 top lists Check -
82 new
Skammen
1968 — a.k.a. Shame, in 7 top lists Check -
90 new
Them!
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
3 new
Armageddon
1998, in 4 top lists Check -
28 new
The Dead Zone
1983, in 1 top list Check -
98 new
True Lies
1994, in 5 top lists Check -
35 new
Fail Safe
1964, in 6 top lists Check -
95 new
The Time Machine
1960, in 1 top list Check -
16 new
The China Syndrome
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
94 new
Threads
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
102 new
WarGames
1983, in 2 top lists Check -
11 new
Kuroi ame
1989 — a.k.a. Black Rain, in 6 top lists Check -
83 new
Silkwood
1983, in 4 top lists Check -
12 new
A Boy and His Dog
1975, in 3 top lists Check -
62 new
On the Beach
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
91 new
The Damned
1962 — a.k.a. These Are the Damned, in 2 top lists Check -
19 new
Crimson Tide
1995, in 1 top list Check -
58 new
Miracle Mile
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
7 new
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
73 new
Red Dawn
1984, in 3 top lists Check -
67 new
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970, in 1 top list Check -
17 new
Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 — a.k.a. The Day the World Changed Hands, in 1 top list Check -
57 new
Matinee
1993, in 1 top list Check -
68 new
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
36 new
Ikimono no kiroku
1955 — a.k.a. I Live in Fear, in 1 top list Check -
4 new
The Atomic Cafe
1982, in 3 top lists Check -
8 new
The Beast of Yucca Flats
1961, in 2 top lists Check -
89 new
Testament
1983, in 0 top lists Check -
9 new
The Bedford Incident
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
24 new
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961 — a.k.a. The Day the Sky Caught Fire, in 0 top lists Check -
69 new
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972, in 0 top lists Check -
22 new
The Day After
1983, in 0 top lists Check -
13 new
Broken Arrow
1996, in 3 top lists Check -
60 new
The Mouse That Roared
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
61 new
Mulholland Falls
1996, in 2 top lists Check -
103 new
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
71 new
The Postman
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
70 new
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 26, 2012; source