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 Red Menace
1949, in 1 top list Check -
79 new
Rocketship X-M
1950, in 0 top lists Check -
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Seven Days to Noon
1950, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951, in 12 top lists Check -
38 new
Five
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
100 new
Unknown World
1951 — a.k.a. To the Center of the Earth, in 0 top lists Check -
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Above and Beyond
1952, in 0 top lists Check -
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Captive Women
1952 — a.k.a. 3000 A.D., in 0 top lists Check -
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Duck and Cover
1952, in 1 top list Check -
45 new
Invasion, U.S.A.
1952, in 0 top lists Check -
76 new
Red Planet Mars
1952, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
55 new
The Magnetic Monster
1953, in 0 top lists Check -
80 new
Savage Mutiny
1953, in 0 top lists Check -
85 new
Split Second
1953, in 1 top list Check -
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The Atomic Kid
1954, in 0 top lists Check -
39 new
Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
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Hell and High Water
1954, in 1 top list Check -
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Killers from Space
1954, in 0 top lists Check -
90 new
Them!
1954, in 3 top lists Check -
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Day the World Ended
1955, in 0 top lists Check -
36 new
Ikimono no kiroku
1955 — a.k.a. I Live in Fear, in 1 top list Check -
48 new
Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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Timeslip
1955 — a.k.a. The Atomic Man, in 0 top lists Check -
105 new
X the Unknown
1956, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Amazing Colossal Man
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
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Beginning of the End
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
44 new
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
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Kronos
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
41 new
Bijo to ekitai ningen
1958 — a.k.a. The H-Man, in 1 top list Check -
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The Lost Missile
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
86 new
Teenage Cave Man
1958 — a.k.a. Out of the Darkness, in 0 top lists Check -
52 new
Li'l Abner
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
60 new
The Mouse That Roared
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
62 new
On the Beach
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
103 new
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
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Last Woman on Earth
1960, in 0 top lists Check -
37 new
Der schweigende Stern
1960 — a.k.a. First Spaceship on Venus, in 1 top list Check -
95 new
The Time Machine
1960, in 1 top list Check -
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The Beast of Yucca Flats
1961, in 2 top lists Check -
24 new
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961 — a.k.a. The Day the Sky Caught Fire, in 0 top lists Check -
78 new
Rocket Attack U.S.A.
1961, in 0 top lists Check -
53 new
Sekai daisensô
1961 — a.k.a. The Last War, in 1 top list Check -
91 new
The Damned
1962 — a.k.a. These Are the Damned, in 2 top lists Check -
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La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
64 new
Panic in Year Zero
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
75 new
Red Nightmare
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
93 new
This Is Not a Test
1962, in 0 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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Fail Safe
1964, in 6 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 26, 2012; source