The Bomb (film)
The Bomb | |
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Genre | Documentary film |
Written by | Rushmore DeNooyer |
Directed by | Rushmore DeNooyer |
Narrated by | Jonathan Adams |
Theme music composer | Todd Hutchisen (music editor) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | One-episode (about two-hours) |
Production | |
Producer | Lone Wolf Media |
Editors | Doug Quade Ryan Shepheard |
Running time | 114:39 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | PBS |
Release | July 28, 2015 |
The Bomb is a 2015 American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons, from theoretical scientific considerations at the very beginning, to their first use on August 6, 1945,[1][2] to their global political implications in the present day.[3][4][5][6][7][8] The film was written and directed by Rushmore DeNooyer for PBS. The project took a year and a half to complete, since much of the film footage and images were only recently declassified by the United States Department of Defense.[5]
According to DeNooyer, “It wouldn’t take very many
Participants
The documentary film is
- narrator)
- John Andersen (former Nuclear Weapons Engineer)
- Hal Behl (aeronautical engineer; Manhattan Project)[10]
- Walter J. Boyne (former U.S. Strategic Air Command pilot)
- Alan Carr (historian; The Forgotten Physicist)
- Lynn Eden (historian; Whole World on Fire)
- John Hopkins (former Director, Nuclear Weapons Program)
- Lilli Hornig (chemist; Manhattan Project)[11]
- Sergei Khrushchev (historian; Khrushchev in Power)
- Amy Knight (historian; How The Cold War Began)
- Charles Loeber (former Nuclear Weapons Engineer)
- Elaine Tyler May (historian; Homeward Bound)
- Glen McDuff (former Nuclear Weapons Engineer)
- Laura McEnaney (historian; Civil Defense Begins at Home)
- Robert Norris (historian; Racing for the Bomb)
- William Perry (former U.S. Secretary of Defense)
- Roger Rasmussen (retired U.S. Army engineer; Trinity witness)[5]
- Richard Rhodes (historian; The Making of the Atomic Bomb)
- Svetlana Savranskaya (historian; The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis)
- Martin Sherwin (historian; American Prometheus)
- George Shultz (former U.S. Secretary of State)
- Lester Tenney (American POW)[4]
- Jonathan M. Weisgall (author; Operation Crossroads)
Reception
Related films
At the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, the experimental 2016 film the bomb, by Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser, was premiered. The film featured archival footage about the atomic bomb, along with live music by The Acid.[14]
See also
- Copenhagen (play)
- History of the anti-nuclear movement
- History of nuclear weapons
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- International Day against Nuclear Tests
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- List of nuclear tests
- List of nuclear weapons
- Manhattan Project
- Oppenheimer (2023 film)
- The Mystery of Matter (PBS film)
- Trinity (nuclear test)
References
- New York Times)
- New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
- ^ a b Staff (July 28, 2015). "PBS - The Bomb - It Changed The World ... And Continues To Shape Our Lives". PBS. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ a b c Contreras, Russell (July 27, 2015). "PBS special 'The Bomb' seeks to tell story of atomic weapons for 70th anniversary". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ Contreras, Russell (July 28, 2015). "Correction: The Bomb Story". ABC News. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.
- ^ a b Nott, Robert (July 27, 2015). "TV documentary explores making of atomic bombs". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ Bianco, Robert (July 28, 2015). "TV tonight: 'The Bomb' on PBS". USA Today. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ a b Gay, Verne (July 27, 2015). "'The Bomb' and 'Uranium' review: Two PBS documentaries, one insufficient, one engaging". Newsday. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- Daily News (New York). Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ Lloyd, Robert (July 24, 2015). "Critic's Pick TV Picks: 'Chris Gethard,' 'Uranium,' 'The Bomb,' 'The Walker'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
- ^ Mintzer, Jordan (February 11, 2017). "'the bomb': Film Review - Berlin 2017 - 'Fast Food Nation' author Eric Schlosser co-directed 'the bomb,' an experimental documentary about nuclear weapons that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on July 26, 2023. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
External links
- The Bomb at the PBS WebSite/1.
- The Bomb (videos) at the PBS WebSite/2.
- The Bomb at IMDb.
- The Bomb - Trailer (00:41) on YouTube
- The Bomb - Complete Film (115:05) on YouTube
- Peace Museums: Hiroshima; Nagasaki.
- Largest bomb exploded – Tsar Bomba (1961; Soviet Union)
- Federation of American Scientists - Worldwide Nuclear Forces Guide
- Video (14:25) - Time-Lapse Map of All 2053 Nuclear Explosions on Planet Earth (7 Countries, 1945 - 1998).