Trying to find a movie (hard)

[Nilsen]

Im trying to find a movie for my dad, but i have very little info to help me..

The theme is ww3, and i belive it was made in the 70's or 80's. Dont remember much of the movie myself, but its about a nuclear war between russia and usa, and you follow a few people around the US from just before and while after the missiles hit the US....

lol, thats all i have to go on....any tips at all?

[Dux]

Damnation Alley?

[Nilsen]

LOL..i was trying to find that one to, and it was supposed to be my next question thx...

[LePaul]

Originally posted by Nilsen
Im trying to find a movie for my dad, but i have very little info to help me..

The theme is ww3, and i belive it was made in the 70's or 80's. Dont remember much of the movie myself, but its about a nuclear war between russia and usa, and you follow a few people around the US from just before and while after the missiles hit the US....

lol, thats all i have to go on....any tips at all?

I remember one I saw as a kid...it was on HBO.  It was more documentary-ish where the movie ended with a reporter saying that the US and Russia had exchanged small scale nukes, etc etc.  I think the reporter was an a aircraft carrier

[Gunslinger]

Red Dawn?

Did most of the movie take place in a B52?

[GRUNHERZ]

The Day After?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0085404/

[Nilsen]

I cant remember any ac in the movie, but it could  have had sort of a documentary style to it..

No B52s either gunslinger...it was kida from the civilian point of view...

The end scene was pretty "dramatic" with an old fella comming home to his big city in ruins trying to find the home of his wife or something....you saw the city (new york prolly) as a smoking pile of rubble in real planet of the apes style.

[LePaul]

Maybe this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/

"By Dawn's Early Light"

Here's the link to the trailer..

http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=3700

[Nilsen]

Leem check closer...i think Grun may be on to something

[Nilsen]

Yup we have a winner:

GRUNHERZ

thx all for your troubles, ill see if i can get that one and damnation alley on dvd or vhs if im unlucky

-edit- ...just found out that it was released on DVD 5/18/04, and another movie i was looking for on the same subject called Testament http://imdb.com/title/tt0086429/

[rogwar]

Originally posted by LePaul
Maybe this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197/

"By Dawn's Early Light"

Here's the link to the trailer..

http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=3700

Wow fellas this is a great thread. I'll have to mark this for review when I get back from Brazil later on next week. I never saw this movie but I'd sure like to now after reading the story line.

Plus there are some other ones as well in the thread.

Here is one I remember...

Miracle Mile

http://imdb.com/title/tt0097889/

It was interesting and disturbing at the same time. I'll have to watch it again.


Watched the trailer for By Dawn's Early Light and noticed James Earl Jones. He was in Dr. Strangelove as well.

[SunKing]

"Miracle Mile" is it.

[Sandman]

Yeah... I was thinking, Miracle Mile also.


Another good one, but older is Failsafe.

[mora]

Nilsen, I suggest you get this movie: http://www.ibp-intl.demon.co.uk/nuke/threads.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

It's much more realistic and shocking than The Day After.

[TheDudeDVant]

How about the 80s(maybe) ww3 movie tween russia and the usa where in the movie it was fought in Alaska. The climax was something like a bunch of russians after the movie's usa group that was held up in some sort of refinnery or oil pumping station along the alaskan pipeline..  The final hold up was all the USA guys in these really large oil pipes that they moved to point in different directions.. Snow was falling in a whiteout condition... All the goodguys were firing outta these long pipes at the russians advancing in the distance.. of course the good guys were almost outta ammo and in no communication with other good guys and no way to warn the rest of hte USA that russia was attacking and WW3 had begun.. Maybe at the end of the movie it showed the US president talking to the Russian president by phone pleading him to turn back their Backfire bombers.. After the president hangs up he makes the remark he knows the russians are not turning back..  

Ok crazy I know and my depiction sucks to say the least Im sure.. Does it ring a bell w/ any of you guys?? In fact the name of the movie could have been WW3.. lmao  will look for that now..

dude

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