CaptainJinks Well, if you are looking for a thorough history lesson, this isn't it. This movie focuses more upon footage, music, the scare. And that's not a bad thing. I've had a life long obsession with the bomb and I'm already quite familiar with its history and technicalities. The footage along with the terrifyingly brilliant and suggestive music is, with a lack of better words, kind of a horrifying... treat. Each blast resembles death trying to make itself pretty.If you want to educate yourself on the bomb, this movie makes a good trilogy together with "The bomb" (Rushmore DeNooyer 2017) and "World's biggest bomb" (Secrets of the dead, Andy Webb).

Sean Lamberger William Shatner narrates a running tally of almost every nuclear weapons test run by the United States in the atomic age, from the 1945 breakthrough "Trinity" to 1963's "Nike Hercules" air defense missile. Almost as fascinating as the constant barrage of blooming orange mushroom clouds on the screen is the realization of just how recklessly fascinated our leaders actually were with this technology. It's a boys' world (or, at least, it was at the time) and so it's not entirely surprising that the men at the top of the food chain would want the biggest toy in the yard to parade around with. Still, it's tough to imagine anyone - even a selfish little brat - being so carefree with such volatile powers. The process almost parodies itself; when the US woefully underestimated the strength of "Castle," a blast twice as powerful as expected that accidentally irradiated sailors and villagers alike, they barely stopped to brush themselves off before launching additional blasts below the surface of the ocean, deep under the ground and in the upper reaches of the atmosphere. The latter of which, inadvertently, introduced us to the far-reaching powers of an EMP. The historical footage dug up for this documentary is riveting and amazing, fantastic fodder for fireball-lovers, but I couldn't stop wondering how we got through it all in one piece. These guys only thought they knew what they were doing, or had at best a vague idea, and in a lot of ways that's worse than just lighting the fuse and standing around with a clipboard and a pair of safety goggles.

Jim Colyer The Atomic Bomb Movie is a stunning film as well as an informative documentary. We are shown the development of nuclear weapons and made aware of their power. There were many tests in the years after World War II, both in the Pacific Ocean and at the Nevada Test Site. Mushroom clouds have a beauty all their own, especially when accompanied by the music of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Atmospheric tests eventually gave way to underground testing. There have been no tests at all since 1992. William Shatner narrates. This is an all star cast if there ever was one: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, J.R. Oppenheimer and Edward Teller.

vincentga Even if it's suppose to have unclass documentary, nothing is new in this movie. And I find it a lot boring. I'm sure they are a lot more video but Army prefer hide them again (and forever).Image of this movie are not restaured and bad. Also we learn nothing just how human are idiot! Well explosion inside the movie are a lot bigger than the movie itself. But maybe people who never see Atomic Bomb explosion will like. But again image are bad. I don't recommend this movie to anybody. I give it 2/10.Better you search on internet to see better image. And learn more. This movie is a lot bad !