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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The Bedford Incident
1965, in 2 top lists Check -
13 new
Broken Arrow
1996, in 3 top lists Check -
14 new
By Dawn's Early Light
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
16 new
The China Syndrome
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
17 new
Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 — a.k.a. The Day the World Changed Hands, in 1 top list Check -
18 new
Il giorno prima
1987 — a.k.a. Control, in 0 top lists Check -
19 new
Crimson Tide
1995, in 1 top list Check -
20 new
Damnation Alley
1977 — a.k.a. Survival Run, in 0 top lists Check -
25 new
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951, in 12 top lists Check -
28 new
The Dead Zone
1983, in 1 top list Check -
31 new
Disaster at Silo 7
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
35 new
Fail Safe
1964, in 6 top lists Check -
39 new
Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
40 new
Goldfinger
1964, in 15 top lists Check -
41 new
Bijo to ekitai ningen
1958 — a.k.a. The H-Man, in 1 top list Check -
44 new
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
56 new
The Manhattan Project
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
63 new
Panic in the City
1968, in 0 top lists Check -
64 new
Panic in Year Zero
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
65 new
The Peacemaker
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
77 new
Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
78 new
Rocket Attack U.S.A.
1961, in 0 top lists Check -
81 new
Seven Days to Noon
1950, in 0 top lists Check -
83 new
Silkwood
1983, in 4 top lists Check -
88 new
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
92 new
Thirteen Days
2000, in 0 top lists Check -
98 new
True Lies
1994, in 5 top lists Check -
99 new
Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 — a.k.a. Nuclear Countdown, in 2 top lists Check -
102 new
WarGames
1983, in 2 top lists Check -
104 new
World War III
1982, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 26, 2012; source