Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."

Einstein and the Bomb

2024

English

6.2

♡ 13

83%

Anthony Philipson Director

Aidan McArdle as Albert Einstein unknown episodes

Andrew Havill as unknown episodes

Helena Westerman as unknown episodes

Simon Haines as unknown episodes

What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.

Blue Sky

1994

English

6.4

♡ 29

80%

husband wife relationship

military base

nuclear missile

Romance

Tony Richardson Director

Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall

Dale Dye as Col. Mike Anwalt

Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Marshall

Timothy Bottoms as Owens Ranch Cowboy

Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life and stirring up intrigue at each new Army base.

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

2023

English

6.6

♡ 3

historical documentary

History

nuclear weapons

war documentary

Sarah Findley Director

Adolf Hitler as Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany

Joseph Stalin as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953

Vladimir Putin as Self - President of Russia

Harry S. Truman as Self - U.S. President 1945 - 1953

The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people on earth. And yet, with war comes new inventions. New ways of destroying the enemy. New machines to wipe out human life. The advent of nuclear weapons not only brought an end to the largest conflict in history, but also ushered in an atomic age and a defining era of "big science". However, with the world now gripped by nuclear weapons, we exist constantly on the edge of mankind's total destruction.

Hiroshima

1995

English

7.8

♡ 6

84%

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Mark Camacho as Charles Sweeney, Pilot

Kenneth Welsh as President Harry S Truman

Timothy West as Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Harry S. Truman as Self

Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing. A combination of dramatisation, historical footage, and eyewitness interviews, the film alternates between documentary footage and the dramatic recreations. Both the dramatisations and most of the original footage are presented as sepia-toned images, serving to blur the distinction between them. The languages are English and Japanese, with subtitles, and the actors are largely Canadian and Japanese.

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

1995

English

7.8

♡ 16

Peter Kuran Director

John F. Kennedy as Himself

Nikita Khrushchev as Himself

William Shatner as Himself - Narrator

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself - U.S. President

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.

Nuked

2023

English

6.3

♡ 4

Andrew Nisker Director

Ian Zabarte as Self

Eldin Alik as Self

Holly M. Barker as Self

Fredrick Aitab as Self (Mr. Executive Councilmember)

The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War, the consequences of which still reverberate down four generations to today. "NUKED," is a timely new feature documentary focussing on the human victims of the nuclear arms race, tracing the displaced Bikinian's ongoing struggle for justice and survival even as climate change poses a new existential threat. Using carefully restored archival footage to resurrect contemporaneous islanders’ voices and juxtaposing these with the full, awesome fury of the nuclear detonations, NUKED starkly contrasts the official record with the lived experience of the Bikinians themselves, serving as an important counterpoint to this summer’s Oppenheimer.

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