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The Day After Trinity
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381147926
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 1981
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Editorial Review:
The Day After Trinity is a haunting journey through the dawn of the nuclear age, an incisive history of humanity's most dubious achievement and the man behind it--J. Robert Oppenheimer, the principal architect of the atomic bomb. Featuring archival footage and commentary from scientists and soldiers directly involved with the Manhattan Project, this gripping film is a fascinating look at the scope and power of the Nuclear Age.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - weak
i concur completely with darthrad. if you are completely ignorant, you will love this film.
Rating:  - You also might want to get the great miniseries, "Oppenheimer"...
The BBC released the great mini-series "Oppenheimer" on Region Two DVD format last year.
This great mini-series is still felt to be the best re-creation on film of the people and events leading up to the explosions of the atomic bombs in August 1945. A young SAM WATERSTON plays Oppenheimer brilliantly.
It took years for the BBC to decide to release the series in DVD format, and then it was only in Region Two (PAL), the format used in the UK.
You'd think that ... Read More
Rating: - Quality
The Day After Trinity is an excellent documentary about Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atom bomb. The interviews of famous scientists who worked at Los Alamos are remarkable in themselves. The film poses questions about the ethics of nuclear armaments, and the relationship between science and politics in weapons development and deployment. Every American should see it.
Rating: - War criminals?
Nice piece on fervor that surrounded the Manhattan Project. Interesting human interest story of how thousands of people worked for years designing the most powerful weapon ever, but didn't realize the consequences on dropping one in a city full of people, until they see it go off in the desert.
Rating:  - A series of talking heads, doesn't add much to the history of the atomic bomb
I got this DVD after having read Richard Rhodes's "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" and "Dark Sun". Plus, I had grown up from childhood reading a lot of other books about the making of the atomic bomb.
I had even seen that famous clip of Robert Oppenheimer before, in grade school, a long, long time ago, in an educational movie about the making of the atomic bomb, where he says:
"....We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, ... Read More
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