Redundant and unnecessary.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I've seen this documentary twice now.My shock and horror to the amount of testing we have conducted, makes very clear as to why so many of us are suffering from health issues.331 bombs (as of the date of the film release) were 'tested'. I understand the need for testing with animals and clearly, if they SEE that the ANIMALS were RADIOACTIVE and the SPREAD of the materials....when were they going to realize "Hi! Earth? Atmosphere? WE BREATHE?! Inhale...exhale?! EXPOSURE!?".I'm always saddened to see the effects of human actions. 20 - 30 tests were shocking to hear but 331 was not something I call a smart move.This documentary, shows the damaging effects of human actions. So many bombs underground, above ground, in the ocean, in the atmosphere....so many times tested...I now sit here and think to myself that the latest documentary stated that Chernobyl will take THOUSANDS of years for the radiation to clear...if this was in 1986....I can now see the reason so many of our loved ones are dying from various forms of cancers and the havoc that all that testing with our continued lack of respect for Earth...has now today, caused the "No Global Warming" debate.Alaska is melting, fires, earthquakes, tsunami.....storms...tornadoes in places that we've never had them....sure, no global warming.As someone stated here, the music score is absolutely amazing....be prepared to be blown away (as someone else stated) for the devastation, recklessness of needless numerous testing while the music evokes a feeling of futility as we are completely powerless to rewind time.In the end, a fantastic documentary but definitely, quite dark.

As I saw even before the beginning of the film following information, that "this film contains recently declassified footage which has never been viewed publicity" I expected to see some real important things and commentaries instead of just watch some fancy edited expensive quality stuff. There wasn't even a single word about the atomic experiments and the their results on human beings. I watched some nuclear reaction tests on soldiers recently, which weren't even mentioned in the film, which I personally find as facts covering from the director. Nothing from the technology to the tests was covered. Instead - some cheap interviews, which even a 7 year old child will understand. So in fact this film is just cheap show, which only scratches the surface of what really happened, produced for those who just are wondering how to loose their time looking fancy pyro spectacles.

I have always been fascinated by the subject of atomic weapons (how they work etc.) and this documentary was a good opportunity to see some decent footage. There is a lot of footage that is displayed in a linear fashion from detonating 100 tons of TNT in the 40's, to a propaganda film that may show the first successful Chinese test from the 60's (date was not given).This documentary appears to give the best sense of what the US military themselves saw, however there are few cuts that go for longer than 10 seconds, which can be annoying for the slower detonations. Watching moving pictures of detonations on DVD on a large TV screen gave a sense of how against nature setting off these things (especially the ones in the megaton range) are. The first few tests conducted were fascinating in a cool way to see science demonstrated, and the raw effects of a new technology. It was interesting to see in detail how the air reacts to a fission reaction being set off, and how nearby objects were affected. But the rest have the fascination of seeing the after-effects of an oil spill, it seems the US military was given license to build and test as many as they liked (and I'm sure the person who gave the Soviets the research was well-intentioned but the Soviets were just as eager to set off large quantities of these just for the hell of it). The ones in the pacific (not too far from Australia I might add) were the most egregious, one of these being constructed and set off is something that should never occur. I still can't believe the US was allowed to launch nukes into space and set them off just to see what happens. Unfortunately I myself am not safely tucked far away from the sites of nuclear explosions, tests were conducted several hundred kilometres north of where I live by the British (how nice of them).In all I'd think that about 15 tests would need to be conducted (by the US) to determine all scenarios and types of nuclear weapons but an astonishing 331 were conducted. A military with these things is like giving a kid a bazooka to play with rather than a slingshot. I think the level of nervousness of the personnel showed in one of the pacific tests is reflective of the nature that these things shouldn't be set off. Like an adult version of a kid constructing a chlorine bomb (or a custom-made firecracker for countries where fireworks are legal) and wondering what havoc will be created when it goes off.Unfortunately the "fun" didn't end after the footage shown in this film, France was detonating nukes underground in Muroroa Atoll (near Australia) in the mid nineties, and more recently Pakistan and India have been polluting their lands with tests.The thing that started it all, Hitler developing nuclear weapons seems a little bit like Hussein and WMD, no evidence was uncovered of a German nuclear program. The Manhattan project and having working nuclear weapons by the mid 40's was completely unnecessary, it is yet another product of American paranoia (I wonder what historical reasons are behind their paranoid streak).

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.