Atomic Bomb Collection (Incuding Trinity And Beyond)

Atomic Bomb Collection (Incuding Trinity And Beyond)

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Editorial Reviews

OVER 300 MINUTES OF NUCLEAR MILESTONES

Atomic Journeys: Welcome to Ground Zero, Nukes in Space: The Rainbow Bombs and Trinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

In this special 60th Anniversary Diamond Edition, renowned special effects filmmaker Peter Kuran (Star Wars, Star Trek II & V, Robocop) offers up amazing film footage chronicling the top secret, strange, and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of Atomic Hydrogen bombs by the United States. Narrated by William Shatner (Boston Legal, Star Trek), Trinity & Beyond features extremely rare film segments from top secret government archives and startling footage of nuclear bomb tests conducted by Great Britain and China, plus the largest atomic explosion ever created by Russia, and de-classified U.S. footage released to the public as recent as May, 2006.

With new footage shot by hi-definition cameras, this award-winning production also features an amazing explosion segment that must be seen with 3D glasses to truly take in its full impact. Trinity & Beyond features an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and an interview with Dr. Edward Teller a developer of nuclear weapons and one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century.

Bonus Segments on this deluxe set include: - Actual Newsreel Footage of Unarmed Nuke Dropped in South Carolina - Footage of Atomic Tests from Around the World- Slide Show Tours of Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico Test Sites; and Hiroshima, Japan-Atomic Tour Guide: A Personal Tour of Atomic Locations of the West - Original Musical Scores by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra - Exclusive Photo Slide Show - Atomic Bomb 3-D Bonus Section- Live-Action Bomb Explosion with Actual Sound Delay - Mind-Blowing Photo Slide Show - Reference Chart of All Nuclear Detonations by the U.S. Including Yields - Footage of Failed Nuclear Launches - John F. Kennedy Speeches and Press Conferences - Cuban Missile Crisis Slide Show and Chronology - Nuclear Space Race Slide Show and Images of Failed launches - Historic PSAs and Atomic Trailers

Customer Reviews

Good Collection

Reviewed by Justin Robinson, 2007-11-15

Trinity and beyond Is the best part of this three dvd set, I have seen it before, The other two are good documenteries also.

You might also be interested in the great miniseries, "Oppenheimer" from 1980.

Reviewed by santera, 2007-09-09

The BBC released the great mini-series "Oppenheimer" on Region Two DVD(PAL) 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 they'd release it on Region One (US format), given the fact thatit starts Sam Waterson. However, it has not yet been released in the US.

The three-disc series, which also stars a brilliant David Suchet as Edward Teller, is available thru Amazon in the UK (www.amazon.co.uk) and on eBay in the UK (www.ebay.co.uk) for about $22.00 plus shipping.

Multi-format players are available in the US. It is my understanding that they have to be hacked to play other formats than Region 1,? due to licensing restrictions. I purchased an inexpensive player on eBay (US), which with shipping cost $50.00. The supplier provided the easy instructions to adapt it to Region Two format.

It is worth going to all of this effort to view again this great mini-series, which was virtually ignored in the US when it was shown here, but which remains unrivaled for both its acting and its accurate re-creation of the events surrounding Oppenheimer, his downfall, and the creation of the atomic age.

Not good, not bad

Reviewed by William McWilliamson, 2007-07-13

Overall, this is a somewhat mediocre set of movies. Depending on what you are looking for, this may not be the set for you. I bought these movies in anticipation that they would deliver, for the most part, good footage of atomic explosions (maybe that wasn't such a good assumption on my part). In the end I was rather disappointed. While Trinity and Beyond was perhaps the most 'exciting' of the three movies, even that fell quite a bit short of what I was hoping for. In Trinity, what I found was more or less scattered segments of this and that with probably about 10 minutes or less of what I would call really good footage. There wasn't much information either on that video - in case you were at least hoping to learn something. The other two seemed to be more informative than Trinity, however they largely lacked actual video shots of nuclear explosions.
I was also disappointed that in the parts you thought were really interesting and cared to see, they seemed to be cut short and you end up only getting a 'taste' of the action.
There are some decent scenes, but they are rather few and far between (if you're going for the action-packed stuff). If you're looking to be educated on these films, I don't think you will be entirely disappointed, but you may want to look around and see what the market has to offer. So far, I'm unable to recommend anything, as these are the first videos I've bought myself.
This was my general impression of this set of videos. Looking back, and given my disposition, I think that if this were priced about 10 dollars lower, I would probably consider it a worthwhile purchase.