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

1. Starcrash (1978)

PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.

Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff

Votes: 7,988

2. Radioactive (2019)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.

Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin

Votes: 21,792

3. Radium Girls (2018)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, History

In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure.

Directors: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler | Stars: Joey King, Abby Quinn, Cara Seymour, Scott Shepherd

Votes: 2,319

4. Flash Gordon (1936)

Passed | 245 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.

Directors: Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson

Votes: 2,662

5. Batman (1943)

Approved | 260 min | Action, Crime, Family

The very first serial to adapt the comic book character of the Batman. In it, the Batman is a secret U.S. government agent, attempting to defeat the schemes of Japanese agent Dr. Daka operating in Los Angeles at the height of World War II.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson

Votes: 2,478

6. Billy Liar (1963)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne

Votes: 7,115 | Gross: $0.04M

7. Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

An ex-Nazi mad scientist uses radio-controlled atomic-powered zombies in his quest to help an exiled American gangster return to power.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Michael Granger

Votes: 1,759

8. The Astounding She-Monster (1957)

Approved | 62 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

A gang of crooks has kidnapped a rich heiress come up against a beautiful, but lethal alien who has crash-landed her spaceship on Earth.

Director: Ronald V. Ashcroft | Stars: Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum

Votes: 1,098

9. Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton

Votes: 2,893

10. The Giant Behemoth (1959)

Not Rated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur that threatens London.

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Gene Evans, André Morell, John Turner, Leigh Madison

Votes: 2,911

11. Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)

Approved | 211 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Using a diabolical disguise, Harry Crowel embarks on a vengeful career of destruction...opposed by three heroic daredevils.

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Charles Quigley, Bruce Bennett, David Sharpe, Carole Landis

Votes: 253

12. Queen of the Jungle (I) (1935)

197 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

An expedition sets off for the last land of Mu, where legend has it that a killer death ray is emitted from the eye of a golden idol.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Mary Kornman, Marilyn Spinner, Reed Howes, Dickie Jones

Votes: 86

13. Larceny on the Air (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dr. Lawrence Baxter, working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose a number of fraudulent patient medicines, with his bitterest attacks being aimed at ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Robert Livingston, Grace Bradley, Willard Robertson, Pierre Watkin

Votes: 130

14. Les palmes de M. Schutz (1997)

106 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A humoristic view of the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity.

Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Philippe Noiret, Charles Berling, Christian Charmetant

Votes: 475

15. Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail (2015)

Documentary

Host and physicist Dr. Derek Muller unlocks the mysteries of uranium, one of the Earth's most controversial elements.

Star: Derek Muller

Votes: 531

16. The Patient in Room 18 (1938)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Lance is sent to the hospital to recuperate from a nervous breakdown. At the hospital, Sara is his nurse and she still holds a grudge from the last court case. At the hospital, a wealthy ... See full summary »

Directors: Bobby Connolly, Crane Wilbur | Stars: Patric Knowles, Ann Sheridan, Eric Stanley, John Ridgely

Votes: 393

17. The Great Radium Mystery (1919)

Passed | Adventure, Action

Criminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up the chase.

Directors: Robert Broadwell, Robert F. Hill | Stars: Cleo Madison, Bob Reeves, Eileen Sedgwick, Bob Kortman

Votes: 27

18. Scouts to the Rescue (1939)

Passed | 231 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial (made in that short two-year span of time when they chose to be identified as The New Universal) is ... See full summary »

Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Vondell Darr, Edwin Stanley, William Ruhl

Votes: 67

19. Danger Island (1931)

Passed | 220 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

The daughter of a man who has discovered radium on an African island is befriended by two people whose real goal is to keep the discovery to themselves.

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Beulah Hutton

Votes: 35

20. The Radium Follies (2006)

14 min | Short

To the metropolitan smart-set of the 1920's, cocktails swizzled with radium were ballyhoo'd as the "Nectar of the Gods""...the nearest god being Eben Byers - zillionaire, gadabout, and ... See full summary »

Director: Sarah Blank | Stars: Chris Bowers, Craig Geraghty, Dolores McDougal, Molly Purves

21. The Genius of Marie Curie (2017)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Anna Ewa Nowakowska | Star: Julianna Zarzycki

22. Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)

52 min | Documentary, History

One hour documentary examining the seventy year history of nuclear and atomic industry, weapons, testing in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.

Director: Harry Bardwell | Stars: Martin Vaughan, Arthur Baillie, Eric Geddes, Roger Goldsworthy

Votes: 7

23. Romance of Radium (1937)

Approved | 10 min | Short, History

This Oscar-nominated short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Pete Smith, Margaret Bert, André Cheron, James Conaty

Votes: 269

24. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 TV Movie)

84 min | Biography, History

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.

Director: Alain Brunard | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Bateau, Patrick Descamps

Votes: 47

25. Marie Curie: The Woman Behind the Mind (2002)

Not Rated | 56 min | Biography

An inspiring portrait of Marie Curie, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, and one of very few people to win two Nobel Prizes. This documentary gives a glimpse into the personal life... See full summary »

Director: Alana Cash

26. Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Sci-Fi

Truncated feature version of the serial 'Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)', in which Captain Mephisto attempts to take over the world's supply of a valuable ore.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Yakima Canutt, Wallace Grissell | Stars: Richard Bailey, Linda Stirling, Roy Barcroft, Kenne Duncan

Votes: 19

27. Brace Up (1918)

50 min | Drama

Colonel Court, an agent in the Secret Service, is distressed by the occasional lapses of courage in his son Henry, a college athlete. Unknown to him, Henry's sweetheart Ellen is also an ... See full summary »

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Claire Du Brey, Alfred Allen, Sam De Grasse

28. The Stronger Love (1916)

50 min | Drama

Nell, a beautiful mountain girl, is a member of the Serviss family, rivals of the neighboring Rutherford family. Nell is engaged to Jim Serviss, who is the head of their clan, but when, by ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Vivian Martin, Edward Peil Sr., Frank Lloyd, Jack Livingston

29. Chains of Evidence (1920)

Mystery

Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed ... See full summary »

Director: Dallas M. Fitzgerald | Stars: Edmund Breese, Marie Shotwell, Anna Lehr, Wallace Ray

30. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1955–1956)
Episode: Hot Treasure (1955)

Adventure

Sheena is asked to help find the murderer of an inoffensive native villager whose death seems to make no sense. Meanwhile, Bob Rayburn is robbed and captured while guarding a shipment of ... See full summary »

Director: Carl K. Hittleman | Stars: Irish McCalla, Christian Drake

31. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Protactinium - Periodic Table of Videos (2014)

7 min | Documentary

Protactinium is a scarce product of the radioactive decay of uranium itself decaying to actinium. That makes it useful of geological data but little else. The professor shares the details ... See full summary »

Stars: Brady Haran, Martyn Poliakoff

32. SciShow (2012– )
Episode: We're Running Out of These Elements - Here's How (2019)

9 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

As our use of modern technology increases we consume increasing quantities of the exotic elements used to make it and some elements are getting difficult to obtain. But the reasons for the ... See full summary »

Star: Michael Aranda

33. Prophets of Science Fiction (2011–2012)
Episode: H.G. Wells (2011)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Biography, History

With stories like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells established himself as a sci-fi writer of almost clairvoyant talent. But these tales of hi-tech adventure hold an ominous warning - beware the dark side of progress.

Director: Declan Whitebloom | Stars: Jonathan Adams, Sean Carroll, Circus-Szalewski, Ridley Scott

Votes: 86

34. TED-Ed (2012– )
Episode: History's deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto (2017)

5 min | Documentary, Animation

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Director: Juan M. Urbina | Star: Susan Zimmerman

35. SciShow (2012– )
Episode: Weak Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2 (2012)

4 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

The weak nuclear force is know for causing radioactive decay. Here's how it works.

Star: Hank Green

36. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: The Ghost of Queen's Park (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While investigating the death of a politician, rumoured to have been killed by a vengeful ghost, Crabtree's theories of the paranormal conflict with Murdoch's scientific beliefs.

Director: Harvey Crossland | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris

Votes: 312

37. New Hidden Killers (2013– )
Episode: The Edwardian Home (2013)

Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary

We are back inside the Edwardian home. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb discusses more dangers in disguise in this era, from poorly insulated electricity and asbestos, to poisonous make-up and radium.

Director: Suzanne Phillips | Stars: Suzannah Lipscomb, Martin Shipp, Jane Hamlett, Helen Peavitt

Votes: 62

38. The Knick (2014–2015)
Episode: Whiplash (2015)

TV-MA | 57 min | Drama, History

Thack experiments with the use of electricity on the brain of a morphine addict. Bertie seeks Dr Edwards' help in finding a treatment for his mother's laryngeal cancer.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance

Votes: 869

39. The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements (2015)
Episode: Unruly Elements (2015)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements. But this sense of ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Lyons, Muffie Meyer | Stars: John Allegra, Michael Aronov, Jane Becker, Justin Blanchard

Votes: 17