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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  1. 9 new

    The Bedford Incident

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 13 new

    Broken Arrow

    1996, in 3 top lists Check
  3. 14 new

    By Dawn's Early Light

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 16 new

    The China Syndrome

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 17 new

    Colossus: The Forbin Project

    1970 — a.k.a. The Day the World Changed Hands, in 1 top list Check
  6. 18 new

    Il giorno prima

    1987 — a.k.a. Control, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 19 new

    Crimson Tide

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  8. 20 new

    Damnation Alley

    1977 — a.k.a. Survival Run, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 25 new

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
  10. 28 new

    The Dead Zone

    1983, in 1 top list Check
  11. 31 new

    Disaster at Silo 7

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 35 new

    Fail Safe

    1964, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 39 new

    Gojira

    1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check
  14. 40 new

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  15. 41 new

    Bijo to ekitai ningen

    1958 — a.k.a. The H-Man, in 1 top list Check
  16. 44 new

    The Incredible Shrinking Man

    1957, in 10 top lists Check
  17. 56 new

    The Manhattan Project

    1986, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 63 new

    Panic in the City

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 64 new

    Panic in Year Zero

    1962, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 65 new

    The Peacemaker

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 77 new

    Mad Max 2

    1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check
  22. 78 new

    Rocket Attack U.S.A.

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 81 new

    Seven Days to Noon

    1950, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 83 new

    Silkwood

    1983, in 4 top lists Check
  25. 88 new

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  26. 92 new

    Thirteen Days

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 98 new

    True Lies

    1994, in 5 top lists Check
  28. 99 new

    Twilight's Last Gleaming

    1977 — a.k.a. Nuclear Countdown, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 102 new

    WarGames

    1983, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 104 new

    World War III

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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Last updated on Apr 26, 2012; source