The Forgotten Bomb

Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.Now, recently declassifie...

Runtime

53m

Director

Peter Kuran

Cast

Adam West, David G. Jackson, Walter Gregg

This documentary explores the connections between nuclear weapons production, nuclear power, and their human and environmental consequences. Through archival footage and interviews with residents living near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado—as well as survivors of atomic bombing and nuclear testing—Dark Circle traces t...

Runtime

1h 22m

Director

Chris Beaver, Judy Irving

A documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.

Runtime

2h

Cast

Robert De Niro, Stanislav Petrov, Kevin Costner

The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs - an international movement Rotblat co-founded - to halt nuclear proliferation.

Runtime

1h 29m

Cast

Joseph Rotblat

Robert Stone’s Academy Award–nominated documentary reconstructs the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. Built largely from previously unseen U.S. government archival footage and eyewitness accounts, the film recounts the relocation of the Bikini Islanders and the experiences of American sailors who were exposed to ...

Runtime

56m

Director

Robert Stone

Cast

Kilon Bauno, John Smitherman, Warren Austin