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      The Bomb

      2016 55m Documentary List
      Reviews 57% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert. Read More Read Less

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      Jordan Mintzer Hollywood Reporter This one-hour assault on the senses is less about informing the viewer than about jarring them into the realization that we are no less safe now than during the height of the Cold War. Feb 11, 2017 Full Review Bilge Ebiri Village Voice I enjoyed it. I'm still not sure if I was supposed to. Apr 27, 2016 Full Review Julie McDowall The National (Scotland) Watching these awful scenes without the intrusion of a narrator was hugely powerful, and the film ends with a sombre, silent warning. Jun 28, 2018 Full Review Christopher Campbell Thrillist A kaleidoscopic montage of archival footage of military exercises, nuclear bomb tests and more unnerving material, some of it more beautiful than you'd prefer to acknowledge. Feb 9, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The footage is amazing and diverse. The music, if you're into electronic music, is ambient and deep emotive techno, with careful sound design. But this movie is more than the sum of its parts. The footage is synced to produce a mesmerizing, polyrhythmic, hi-octane audiovisual cocktail. As an extended music video, this would already be legendary. But it is more even than that: there is a clear and resounding prosocial message, skillfully delivered, by both music and image. As a documentary it is in style of "Koyaanisqatsi", but perhaps better in many ways!) Not to be missed. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Enthralling and entrancing, The Bomb combines archival nuclear test footage and Cold War propaganda films, set to modern electronic trip-hop by The Acid. The narration of traditional documentary is eschewed as the images are allowed to speak for themselves, unfiltered. The result strikes an awesome and terrifying emotional nerve, one that we have grown numb to in the wake of the Cold War, as one realizes the still present risk of a nuclear apocalypse through accident, proliferation, and escalation. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Watched a couple minutes of it waiting for the narrator to start speaking. I'm not sure how they're able to call it a documentary. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Awesome compilation. Great soundtrack by the acid. Would love to see this in IMAX THEATER. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member A Reopening of my eyes... to the fact that Nuclear Weapons exist.. a fact I do forget at times. Man's hunger for power built them. Man is still hungry for power. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.
      Director
      Kevin Ford, Smriti Keshari, Eric Schlosser
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 16, 2017
      Runtime
      55m
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