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The Atomic Bomb Collection | 
 enlarge | Director: Peter Kuran
Actors: William Shatner, Edward Teller, Frank H. Shelton, Randall William Cook, Paul Tibbets
Studio: VCE, inc.
Category: DVD
Buy New: $45.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 60235
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 300
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DGH2012D
UPC: 743452201228
EAN: 0743452201228
ASIN: B000GB5MDI
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1995
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Product Description
The Atomic Bomb Collection contains 3 DVD titles including "Trinity and Beyond", "Atomic Journeys" and "Nukes in Space." A wonderful gift to give that new DVD player and sound system a workout.
Over 3 1/2 hours of Atomic History coupled with over 2 hours of special material only available on the 3 pack DVD's.
Trinity and Beyond "Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945 until 1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the film reveals unreleased and classified government footage depicting in graphic detail these powerful and awesome weapons. Featured only on the DVD Atomic Weapon Effect footage as you've never seen it before. Houses, cars, trailers blown away in 3D 3D glasses included The DVD features: Dolby 5.1 Surround sound track slide show Atomic Tests in 3D commentary track seperate motion picture score an unedited atomic detonation with actual sound delay and other goodies.
Atomic Journeys The DVD features almost an hour of new material including music,several slide shows. Nuke testing in the Sahara, Australia and nuking a Russian forest. Special features: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound Interactive Full Motion Menus Commentary Track Separate original score - 30 tracks Biography of Filmmakers Bonus Segments: Atomic Trailers Slide show tours of the Nevada Test Site and Hiroshima, Japan Footage of Atomic Tests from around the world Actual newsreelfootage of unarmed nuke dropped on South Carolina town Atomic touring: maps and directions slide show Travels with Vern: Your personal tour guide to Atomic locations of the West Tours of Test sites in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico.
Nukes In Space The DVD features almost two hours of bonus material including newsreel chronologies, JFK speeches and addresses, the Cuban Missile Crisis, slides shows and more! THE NUKES IN SPACE DVD INCLUDES: Special Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound Interactive Full Motion Menus Commentary Track Separate original score - 10 Tracks Biography of Filmmakers Bonus Segments: Atomic Trailers Cuban Missile Crisis Slide show and Chronology John F. Kennedy Speeches and Press Conferences Nuclear Space Race Slide Show and Footage of Failed launches.
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 Good Collection November 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. September 9, 2007
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
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 July 13, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
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