1) I agree that thorium reactors have the potential to be superior to pressurized or boiling water uranium reactors. I object to the notion, though, that PWR/BWR are inherently very dangerous, a notion that is very widespread. I do not impute that notion to you.
2) Don’t waste your time with those movies. They were made purely to propagandize falsehoods. They also weren’t made very well ... “The Day After” was really bad ...
I should change my statement to: Thorium reactors have the potential to have a far simpler design with fewer failure points, passive and safe system shutdowns, and fewer opportunites to turn into a larger and more expensive failure!
Nuclear power has caused far fewer injuries per megawatt hours generated than coal or gas generation. So I do view it as pretty safe.
It is the cost and effort to keep that tiger inside his cage that I would like to improve on!