Best Nuclear Weapons Movies & TV Shows

Top Gun: Maverick

10 / 10

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Run time: 131m Tagline: Feel the need... The need for speed. Release: 2022-05-21

Stars: Bashir Salahuddin Charles Parnell Jay Ellis Jennifer Connelly Jon Hamm Lewis Pullman Miles Teller Monica Barbaro Tom Cruise Val Kilmer

World War Z

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Run time: 116m Tagline: There will come a day when the world we know will end. Release: 2013-06-19

Stars: Brad Pitt Daniella Kertesz David Morse Elyes Gabel Fana Mokoena James Badge Dale Ludi Boeken Matthew Fox Mireille Enos Sterling Jerins

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Run time: 137m Tagline: It's nothing personal. Release: 1991-07-03

Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger Castulo Guerra Danny Cooksey Earl Boen Edward Furlong Jenette Goldstein Joe Morton Linda Hamilton Robert Patrick S. Epatha Merkerson

A Good Day to Die Hard

Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.

Run time: 98m Tagline: Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia. Release: 2013-02-06

Stars: Amaury Nolasco Bruce Willis Cole Hauser Jai Courtney Mary Elizabeth Winstead Radivoje Bukvić Roman Luknár Sebastian Koch Sergey Kolesnikov Yuliya Snigir

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.

Run time: 147m Tagline: Some missions are not a choice. Release: 2018-07-25

Stars: Angela Bassett Henry Cavill Michelle Monaghan Rebecca Ferguson Sean Harris Simon Pegg Tom Cruise Vanessa Kirby Ving Rhames Wes Bentley