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photo of a nighttime nuclear ICBM test launch; amid the darkness, the missile appears to arc up and over the moon

Airman 1st Class Daniel Brosam/US Air Force

October 9, 2025

Five Things to Know Before Watching A House of Dynamite

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

Twisters, 2024, Universal Pictures

July 31, 2024

Don’t Get It Twisted: “Twisters” Movie Misses Scarier Risks

Sital Sathia
Energy Justice Research Associate

A red pickup truck idles on a road in rural Nebraska with its passenger side door open. Nearby, the massive black funnel cloud of a tornado touches down.

Brent Koops/NOAA Weather in Focus Photo Contest 2015

July 30, 2024

Three Takeaways from Twisters: Hillbillies, Science, and Solutions

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

Twin violent tornadoes outside of Wisner, Nebraska in 2014.

Ethan Schisler/NOAA Weather in Focus Photo Contest 2015

July 25, 2024

Twisters, and the Elephant in the Room

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

a still from 2023's Oppenheimer movie directed by Christopher Nolan

Universal Pictures

March 12, 2024

Hollywood Rewards Nuclear Arms Control While Washington Dithers

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

pills spilled from bottle

August 17, 2023

Netflix’s “Painkiller” Series Reminds Us: Sidelining Science Can Be Deadly

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

ASSOCIATED PRESS

August 15, 2023

My Reason for Not Watching Oppenheimer (A Perspective from Hiroshima)

Guest Commentary

Universal Pictures

July 26, 2023

Oppenheimer Remains Largely Faithful to History, But Some Critical Pieces are Missing

Jennifer Knox
Policy & Research Analyst

Photo of Oppenheimer in a fedora and suit

NBC News Studios

July 13, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Scientists and Arms Control from Oppenheimer to Today

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Felipe Bustillo/Unsplash

June 28, 2023

Four Things to Look for When You Watch the Oppenheimer Film

Tara Drozdenko
Director, Global Security Program

Still from "Don't Look Up"/NETFLIX

March 26, 2022

Do Look Up

David Combs
Operations Manager

January 26, 2022

Spoiler Alert: We Can Still Knock the “Comet” Off Course. But We Can’t Squander Solutions.

Meghan Hassett
Former Contributor

January 10, 2022

A Climate Scientist Watches ‘Don’t Look Up’

José Pablo Ortiz Partida
Director of Innovation and Collaboration

University of Chicago/SPT Collaboration/UCS

January 7, 2022

Climate Scientists on ‘Don’t Look Up:’ It’s Infuriating, Soul-Sucking and On-the-Nose

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

December 22, 2021

Union of Concerned Scientists’ 2021 Picks: 53 Things for Science Lovers to Read, Watch, Listen to, Enjoy

Kristy Dahl
Former Staff

Photo: SkillUp/Shutterstock

May 2, 2020

Movie Review: Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” Traffics in Myths, Errors, and Dangerous Misdirection

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

A chromolithograph print of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago

Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication.

October 31, 2019

The Current War: Why Did Westinghouse (AC) Beat Edison (DC)?

Mark Specht
Senior Manager, Western States Energy

Toronto Film Festival

May 8, 2019

Healthy Soil, Coming to a Theater Near You: 5 Lessons from “The Biggest Little Farm”

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

February 23, 2017

Overpopulation, and a Movie that Definitely Won’t Get the Oscar

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

Cowspiracy movie poster cropped

June 10, 2016

Movie Review: There's a Vast Cowspiracy about Climate Change

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

February 26, 2016

Dinner and a Movie? 9 Fine Films on Food from 2015

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

December 2, 2014

Interstellar: Climate Change and the Evolution of Cli-Fi Movies

Roberto Mera
Former contributor

May 9, 2014

Fed Up about Food? New Film Highlights Concerns around Sugar, Science, and Democracy

Gretchen Goldman
President & CEO of UCS

April 28, 2014

Garwin the Movie, Reviewed

Lisbeth Gronlund
Former UCS Global Security Program Co-Director