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The Bomb

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Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

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Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter 02/11/2017
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. Go to Full Review Bilge Ebiri Village Voice 04/27/2016
I enjoyed it. I'm still not sure if I was supposed to. Go to Full Review Julie McDowall The National (Scotland) 06/28/2018
Watching these awful scenes without the intrusion of a narrator was hugely powerful, and the film ends with a sombre, silent warning. Go to Full Review Christopher Campbell Thrillist 02/09/2018
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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07/06/2020 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. See more 04/26/2019 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. See more 10/03/2018 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. See more 03/07/2018 Awesome compilation. Great soundtrack by the acid. Would love to see this in IMAX THEATER. See more 08/10/2017 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. See more Read all reviews
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Kevin Ford

Director

Smriti Keshari

Director

Eric Schlosser

Director

Smriti Keshari

Producer

Eric Schlosser

Producer

Kevin Ford

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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
Producer
Smriti Keshari, Eric Schlosser
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 16, 2017
Runtime
55m
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