Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "gamma-ray"

1. Chernobyl (2019)

TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.

Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis

Votes: 867,127

2. Children of Men (2006)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine

Votes: 529,754 | Gross: $35.55M

3. The Incredible Hulk (2008)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Bruce Banner, a scientist on the run from the U.S. Government, must find a cure for the monster he turns into whenever he loses his temper.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt

Votes: 523,866 | Gross: $134.52M

4. Threads (1984 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May

Votes: 20,159

5. The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Votes: 9,284 | Gross: $25.38M

6. The Gamma People (1956)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla

Votes: 821

7. Hiroshima (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Documentary with dramatic reenactments with actors to describe what dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was like.

Director: Paul Wilmshurst | Stars: John Hurt, Shuntaro Hida, George Elsey, Paul Tibbets

Votes: 1,880

8. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)

PG | 100 min | Drama

A middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach, Judith Lowry

Votes: 2,662 | Gross: $0.18M

9. Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995 Video)

Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963.

Director: Peter Kuran | Stars: William Shatner, Edward Teller, W.H.P. Blandy, Frank H. Shelton

Votes: 3,622

10. Hulk (1966)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

The adventures of a nuclear scientist cursed with the tendency to turning into a huge green brute under stress.

Stars: Bernard Cowan, Don Mason, Jack Creley, Claude Rae

Votes: 1,053

11. Die Wolke (2006)

105 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

"Die Wolke" (The Cloud) is about the breakdown of a nuclear-power station in Germany and the story of teenage lovers Hannah and Elmar, who take refuge. 38,000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.

Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Paula Kalenberg, Franz Dinda, Hans-Laurin Beyerling, Carina Wiese

Votes: 3,282

12. Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero (1999 Video)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History

A tour of U.S. atomic test sites in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, and Alaska.

Director: Peter Kuran | Stars: Peter Merlin, William Shatner

Votes: 268

13. The last people of Chernobyl (2018)

52 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

The documentary was created during a charity expedition that was organized to help "samosely". It presents the life of people who never accepted the enforced evacuation, that was ordered ... See full summary »

Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Krystian Machnik

Votes: 20

14. Radioactive Fallout and Shelter (1965)

27 min | Documentary, Short

Purporting that fallout is nothing more than a minor nuisance and that the government knows what to do and that silly fallout problem.

Votes: 10

15. White Horse (2008)

18 min | Documentary, Short

20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, a man returns to his childhood home which he hasn't seen since he was evacuated days after the tragedy.

Directors: Christophe Bisson, Maryann DeLeo | Star: Maxym Surkov

Votes: 59

16. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Radio Bikini (1988)

Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Kilon Bauno, John Smitherman, Warren Austin, Bernard Baruch

Votes: 674

17. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode: Far from Home (2020)

TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the U.S.S. Discovery crash-lands on a strange planet, the crew finds themselves racing against time to repair their ship. Meanwhile, Saru and Tilly embark on a perilous first-contact mission in hopes of finding Burnham.

Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman

Votes: 3,940

18. Naked Science (2004– )
Episode: Monster Black Holes (2008)

Documentary, Adventure

Follow a basic explanation of what a black hole is an how it forms, this program explores what happen near and even inside a black hole based on current theories of gravitation. The great ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Lucas | Stars: Paul Davies, Andrew J.S. Hamilton, Kip Thorne, Tiziana Di Matteo

Votes: 34

19. MinutePhysics (2011– )
Episode: Impossible Muons (2018)

4 min | Documentary, Animation

Every day particle detectors at the surface of the Earth detect muons created by cosmic rays hitting Earth's upper atmosphere. But muons have very short life spans and should have decayed ... See full summary »

Star: Henry Reich

20. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Universe Revealed: Black Holes (2021)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary

Discover new science showing how black holes reshape entire galaxies, warp the fabric of space and time, and might even be portals to another universe.

Directors: Clementine Cheetham, Tom Hewitson | Stars: Talithia Williams, Imogen Whittam, Kirsten Hall, Nial Tanvir

Votes: 62

21. Arvin Ash (2018– )
Episode: Why Does the Sun Shine? The Quantum Explanation for How the Sun Works (2021)

17 min | Documentary

The sun derives it's energy form the fusion of hydrogen into helium but, as Arvin explains, it doesn't occur in just one step. Fusion is only successful because the helium nucleus is more ... See full summary »

Star: Arvin Ash

22. Passé sous silence (2000– )
Episode: La bataille de Tchernobyl (2006)

94 min | Documentary

Documentary about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.

Director: Thomas Johnson | Stars: Tim Birkett, Hans Blix, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oleg Mirochnikov

Votes: 1,576

23. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Americium - Periodic Table of Videos (2012)

8 min | Documentary

Americium was discovered in the Manhatten project but kept secret until the news leaked out a year later. it has a commercial use in microscopic quantities as a radiation source in smoke ... See full summary »

Stars: Martyn Poliakoff, Mark Sarsfield

24. The Science Asylum (2013– )
Episode: The Sun can't work without Quantum Tunneling (2020)

9 min | Documentary

Scientists and Engineers trying to fuse protons into Helium on Earth have found they need temperatures far beyond the temperature in the sun's core. Yet the sun has no trouble doing it. Its... See full summary »

Star: Nick Lucid

25. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Dubnium - Periodic Table of Videos (2018)

8 min | Documentary

The discovery of the synthetic element Dubnium was hotly disputed between a Soviet and an American laboratory which proposed the names Hahnium and Neilsborhrium respectively. Ultimately and... See full summary »

Stars: Brady Haran, Martyn Poliakoff

26. DeepSkyVideos (2011– )
Episode: M1 - Crab Nebula - Deep Sky Videos (2012)

10 min | Documentary

The supernova that created what was now know as the Crab Nebula was observed by Chinese astronomers a thousand years ago. It's young age make the remnant nebula and the pulsar it left behind ideal for study.

Stars: Paul Crowther, Meghan Gray, Brady Haran, Mike Merrifield

27. Learn from the base (2020– )
Episode: How Tsar Bomba works! Worlds biggest Nuclear Bomb Ever Detonated. Learn from the Base (2023)

8 min | Documentary, Animation

The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. A complex series of energetic nuclear reactions occurred in an instant to make it work.

28. Dr. Becky (2015– )
Episode: Can gravitational waves Interfere with each other? (2024)

15 min | Documentary, News

Investigating a viewer's question about gravitational wave interference, Becky found there is indeed evidence that gravitational waves interfere just like every other wave we know of. Then she shares the implications for quantum gravity.

Star: Becky Smethurst

29. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: Journey from the Center of the Sun (2014)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary

How does light escape from the sun? We take a journey from the center of the sun, following the path of light. We witness its fiery birth from in the core, its 430,000 mile battle against ... See full summary »

Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Holly Gilbert, Michelle Thaller

Votes: 129

30. Agent Carter (2015–2016)
Episode: The Edge of Mystery (2016)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Peggy and Sousa propose a trade with Whitney Frost, while the SSR gets help from Howard Stark that may be the key to eliminating Zero Matter.

Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Hayley Atwell, James D'Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, Enver Gjokaj

Votes: 2,041

31. MacGyver (2016–2021)
Episode: Fence + Suitcase + Americium-241 (2019)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Phoenix teams up with a woman who's a soccer mom by day but a master thief by night to catch one of her contacts, an underworld criminal, who has hired her to steal a dirty bomb.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Lucas Till, George Eads, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires

Votes: 544

32. Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)
Episode: Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (2019)

TV-PG | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The U.S.S. Discovery battles against Control in a fight not only for their lives but for the future, with a little help from some unexpected friends. Spock and Burnham discern vital new ... See full summary »

Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi | Stars: Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman

Votes: 4,999