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List Price: $24.95 | | Label: VCE Inc.
Salesrank: 86061
Released: October 24, 2006 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In the salad days of nuclear-weapons testing, the United States detonated 331 atomic, hydrogen, and thermonuclear bombs. Many of those explosions appear in Trinity and Beyond, which utilizes a lot of declassified footage, most of it in color. Standouts include the United States' South Pacific detonation of an atom bomb 90 feet below the water to study the effects on a fleet of ships. Surprise, surprise, they sink! If that wasn't enough, the navy also loaded the decks with sheep to study the effects of the blast on life forms. Surprise, surprise, they die! Glowing leg of lamb anyone? This film will alternately amuse and horrify you at the rampant irresponsibility of the Soviets and Americans in their quest for nuclear domination. The Russians have the honor of having detonated the largest nuclear bomb ever at a whopping 58 megatons. The Hiroshima bomb was barely a kiloton. Of course, after the U.S. and Russia ceased their activities, the Chinese decided to get in on the act. But that's a different story for a different documentary. --Kristian St. Clair
Trinity and Beyond - The Atomic Bomb Movie (Full Screen) Reviews:
Life Changing 
2009-11-18 - I will come out and say that this movie has totally changed how I view man. I thought I new about our nuclear past...now I really know. It is just such an amazing documentary that when you really sit and think about it...the technology in this movie showcases what the world had in the 1960's...I would bet that some of these newer nukes are packing a lot more heat.
I love the part of the documentary where USA is blasting the Russian's for forfeiting the treaty of testing nukes in the atmosphere and says that Russia has no regard for radiative fallout on the world....fast forward a few months....apparently USA has short term memory when they begin testing again. Politics aside...for whatever reason...I felt that clip stood out the most to me.
The ending of this documentary is both chilling and left me sputtering expletives. It was pure insanity to see a training mission heading right into the path of a bomb.
To sum it is...this movie is so good, I will watch it again...something I never do.
Good historical documentary 
2009-10-21 - I first saw this in a high school chemistry class, and was impressed at the footage and soundtrack. However, as it is a documentary it also needs historical information, which it does provide. Since it is a 92-minute film, it can't be too in-depth, but I feel that most of its appeal is strictly shock value and visual. That being said, it does have interviews with nuclear physicists involved in the R&D programs of these weapons, and focuses on both American and Russian atomic testing. The ending is a bit of a disappointment, because I would have liked to see more about China's nuclear programs. A bit of a cliffhanger :(
Trinity & Beyond, The Atomic Bomb Movie
2009-10-02 - Using entirely archival footage plus the narration of William Shatner, and musical score by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning film is a powerful and frightening chronological close-up look at the amazing power of nuclear weapons from previously classified footage. Included are viewpoints of scientists and officials who made it happen. I have two versions of this DVD: the original "Digital Collector's Edition," and this newer "Widescreen edition," also referred to as "The Atomic Bomb Collection 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition." This widescreen edition has the advantage of being a much sharper-looking release generally than the original. However, since all the original footage was shot in 4 X 3 aspect ratio, the widescreen edition crops off the top and bottom of the archival footage in order to fill the screen. This does not usually present any obvious problems. Further, the widescreen edition does not include the audio only tracks of the great stereophonic score produced by the Moscow Symphony, available on the original release. The anaglyph 3D portions can be expected work better on a flat screen digital TV than on an analog tube-type TV.
BANG! do not look at the burst.
2009-04-03 - totally cool, this is the coolest nuke video on the market. all remasterd and brilliant.
Atomic weapons review
2009-01-28 - This DVD is all about atomic bombs. Throughout the movie Atom and Hydrogen bombs are shown at the moment and pictorially what the expplosions look like as they go off. It is very fascinating if you enjoy seeing large detonations of bombs going off.
