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By our count, nearly 150 feature films, documentaries and series have been made that address nuclear weapons or atomic power either directly or metaphorically, and many more that use the weapon as ...
Hoyte van Hoytema, who captured an atomic bomb test in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and an ice planet in “Interstellar,” is known for intimate closeups and awe-inspiring vista shots ...
Oppenheimer writer and director Christopher Nolan is no stranger to dark, brooding films.His list of credits includes the Batman trilogy, Dunkirk, Inception and Insomnia.But he says the story of ...
On July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the world's first test of a nuclear bomb. The Trinity test sent fallout well beyond the desert of New Mexico, though, and an unlikely source discovered it ...
According to an atomic historian, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer alters a handful of details from history for the sake of enhancing the film's drama.
‘We were expendable': Downwinders from world's 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story Their story is becoming better known with the documentary “First We Bombed New Mexico” ...
Witnesses to the Trinity test, the inaugural atomic bomb experiment in 1945 portrayed in “Oppenheimer,” described the billowing blast in various ways.It was said to resemble a chimney, a ...
The atomic flash was spotted 430 miles away in southern Idaho, yet cocky GI's and grinning generals popped out of their foxholes within the shadow of the fearsome bomb less than ten seconds after ...
While the US dropping atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 has been well documented, nuclear testing conducted in the US state of New Mexico weeks earlier is less known ...
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First ...
Hoyte van Hoytema, who will receive Variety’s Creative Impact in Cinematography, details shooting the 'Oppenheimer' Trinity Test.