NPR

Looking back at the nuclear age of filmmaking

Art serves many purposes, like providing us with an inside look at the fears and neuroses of society at any given time in history. This month marked the 80th anniversary of when the U.S. dropped ...
THE WEEK

The 5 best nuclear war movies of all time

The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month

One of the climactic moments in A House of Dynamite is a friendly reminder. Captain Olivia Walker (played by Rebecca Ferguson) is in the White House Situation Room where, moments earlier, her team ...
NPR

Here's what experts say 'A House of Dynamite' gets wrong (and right) about nuclear war

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...
The New York Times

‘So Lifelike as to Be Terrifying’: How Netflix’s Nuclear War Movie Holds Up to the Real World

Ms. Kingsbury is the Opinion editor. Mr. Hennigan writes about national security issues for Opinion from Washington. “A House of Dynamite” is a taut, high-stakes thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow ...