Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

While the footage in this film is interesting, it's little more than a list of the hundreds of atomic bombs tested by the United States and a few interviews with physicists who worked on the bombs. This documentary lacks any of the criticality necessary for a film that takes on such a deeply controversial topic. Indeed, in many ways the film portrays an American exceptionalist view of the age, especially through it's uncritical interviews of individuals who show no qualms about the history of atomic weapons (a view not shared by many others). Moreover, the film is not factually correct when it discusses the history of Soviet atomic history. Finally, the score for the film (done, nobly by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra) is a bit too dramatic for the film. While I can't recommend this film, I do recommend _Radio Bikini_ (1988), _The Day After Trinity_ (1982), _The Atomic Cafe_ (1982), _The Bomb_ (2016) and/or _White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki_ (2007) as alternatives.