Kathryn Bigelow's terrifying new thriller "A House of Dynamite" gives us a minute-by-minute breakdown of how various people working for the U.S. government might react if a nuclear missile was on its way. Noah Oppenheim's intense script hammers the point home again and again that there are no good solutions to this problem, and that the very existence of nuclear weapons is something that will doom us all. With "A House of Dynamite" in select theaters before heading to Netflix this month, we decided to rank some of the best nuclear war movies by how unsettling they are in their depictions of annihilation.

12. Crimson Tide

The Glasnost era was supposed to sap moviegoers' interest in nuclear war dramas and thrillers, but, in the spring of 1990, folks nevertheless lined up for the rogue Russ

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