Atomic Bomb Movie, The: Special Director's Cut
by John B. Hobbs
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Actor: Carmen Silvera, Carole Ashby, Gorden Kaye, Kim Hartman, Vicki MichelleDirector: John B. Hobbs
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Color, Director's Cut, NTSC
Running Time: 120 minutes
Release Date: 1999-11-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Goldhil Home Media
Studio: Goldhil Home Media
VHS Movie Reviews of Atomic Bomb Movie, The: Special Director's Cut
Movie Review: Very Great, Educational Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This video shows many nuclear tests that have been declassified by the U.S. government. It takes you through the history of the nuclear warhead, and is both exciting and educational. You are taught how nukes came to be, the effects of the radiation and the damage that nuclear warfare takes on civilization. It was very interesting to see from a first person point of view an unstable nuclear chain reaction taking place! ...Movie Review: Trinity and Beyond is fact packed!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very comprehensive look at our history with The Bomb. Williams Shatner's voice is almost soothing as your narrator.All while you are shown the most horrific weapons of mass distruction. Recently declassified film from our military shows many perfectly filmed glimpses of their magnitude.It also shows errors in judgement in the early years. Men walking directly into hours old craters. Underwater test where our Navy was too close! Very interesting.Movie Review: An excellent video
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic footage accompanied by some interesting facts and figures. It illustrates the ever increasing power that these tests produced. The musical score adds a memorable atmosphere to the whole production.Movie Review: An impressive documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
With impressive detail and incredible footage, this has to be one of the most exceptional documentaries ever produced on the subject of the atomic bomb.Movie Review: YOU'LL BE BLOWN AWAY!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
As I began to watch this movie I was fascinated by what I saw. Each test is bigger than the last. It is amazing and horrifying, spectacular, yet sobering. Near the end I began to recall how I felt during the cold war fearing that some lunatic would start a nuclear war (not that it couldn't happen now).The footage is incredible. Shatner's narration is first rate. The music is moving and powerful.
Summary of Atomic Bomb Movie, The: Special Director's Cut
Almost everyone knows something about the cataclysmic end to World War II, when U.S. bombers dropped atomic bombs onto populated cities for the first and last time in history. But what came next in the arms race--how we got from those tubby little A-bombs to today's self-propelled intercontinental multiwarhead arsenal--is largely overlooked. This documentary takes the desperate, paranoid timeline of the Atomic Age and generously leavens it with explosive eye candy. Some viewers might find the sensational presentation a bit too close to the vintage exploitation films it mimics--melodramatic narration is provided by Star Trek's William Shatner and the director's cut includes a mini-documentary on the present-day Nevada Test Site tourist attraction shot entirely in classic 3-D (glasses included). The film's main draw is previously unreleased military footage of full-color monumental destruction, cut against occasionally goofy newsreels and period "educational" films. The heavy soundtrack, combined with endless shots of sand being fused to glass and buildings reduced to dust, tends to drag. But there are a few moments that give an unusually human face to our quest for mass destruction: an interview with aged H-bomb inventor Dr. Edward Teller early in the film, declassified footage of soldiers strapping livestock onto battleships used as floating nuclear test targets, and the haunting closing shots of Chinese cavalrymen charging their gas-masked horses into a rising mushroom cloud. --Grant BalfourGeneral Video
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