Movies with radio communication.

[KA3NRX]

From the James Bond series:

Dr. No -- Opening scene in Kingston, Jamaica, where Commander Strangways of the British SS is shot dead by Dr. No's goons, and as a result, does not show up for his nightly radio transmission to MI6 on the status of the Dr. No surveillence.  To which, Strangway's secretary is setting up the radio for the transmission to London, and is subsequently shot dead by the same Dr. No thugs who show up at Strangway's outpost.....

Thunderball--As Bond and his associates enter their Bahamas station, the head of the Bahama station is monitoring a BBC Broadcast stating that Big Ben struck an extra ring due to a technical glitch....there is significance of this item to the story plot for which I forget.....

In the movie, The World Is Not Enough, there is scene when Bond is in a room full of radios (some kind of spy station) with his contacts...and these radios are old as the scene I believe is somewhere in Azerbiajan......Not the typical high tech you would otherwise expect if he'd be in the UK MI6 headquarters or something....

Other movies:

The Thing (1982 version) where Kurt Russell catches the Antarctic Research Bases radio guy napping with his head phones on....At which point, Russell cranks up the volume on the radio giving the radio guy the fright of his life....too funny....

World War III Mini Series....Opens with a Ham operator talking on his set, when he hears a comotion outside his Alaska dwelling.....He signs off the radio, grabs his rifle and checks on the comotion, to discover that the Soviet Army has invaded Alaska....The Ham is shot dead by the Russian soldiers when confronted.....

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KA3NRX

[KE7KTR]

Ham radio and CB radio both make brief but prominent appearances in the recent movie "Super 8". 

I highly recommend it.

[K0JEG]

Well, if we're counting CB, Smokey and the Bandit. Most of the dialogue between Cledus and Bandit happened over the chicken band (and at some surprisingly long distances).

How about Star Trek 2, Wrath of Kahn? Kirk and Kahn were never in the same room, but they communicated the entire time over the sub-space band.

[G3RZP]

How about the 1956 French film, 'Race for Life'? That is ALL ham radio - many of the crew of a trawler become very ill with food poisoning, the trawler radio breaks down, and a radio amateur on board uses ham radio to get essential drugs to the ship, with amateurs relaying messages between countries. As I remember, they even used various actual amateur's stations for the filming.

In French, but there are subtitled versions in English. It is in monochrome.