If you really want to get your atomic bomb thirst satisfied without the preachy, I highly recommend "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie." It was made by a special effects professional from real footage of atomic weapons testing (no CGI). It's been around for awhile and has been released in multiple VHS versions, DVD and Blu Ray versions.
The movie is narrated by William Shatner and (non-ironically) the accompanying music is by Moscow Symphony Orchestra. It does have snippets of interviews with people like Edward Teller and others associated with the US atomic weapons program.
Full disclosure: I contributed to one of the later versions that used improved digital restoration methods to improve the weapons testing videos. For that I got "Executive Producer" credit.
I knew "red diaper babies" when I was a kid, and in there would be serious discussions of why the US should have given the secrets to the A-bomb to Stalin. Also lots of angst over the Rosenbergs. Oppenheimer was definitely preachy from all I have read.
Oppenheimer is too long and too preachy. Barbie is a great movie, which is really fun, with an underlying message. More of what a movie should be.
If you really want to get your atomic bomb thirst satisfied without the preachy, I highly recommend "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie." It was made by a special effects professional from real footage of atomic weapons testing (no CGI). It's been around for awhile and has been released in multiple VHS versions, DVD and Blu Ray versions.
The movie is narrated by William Shatner and (non-ironically) the accompanying music is by Moscow Symphony Orchestra. It does have snippets of interviews with people like Edward Teller and others associated with the US atomic weapons program.
You can buy it just about anywhere but here's the link to the blu-ray version sold by the marketing arm of the producer: https://atomcentralstore.mybigcommerce.com/trinity-and-beyond-70th-anniversary-edition-dvd/
Full disclosure: I contributed to one of the later versions that used improved digital restoration methods to improve the weapons testing videos. For that I got "Executive Producer" credit.
Oppenheimer the man was annoying and preachy, and it is a biopic.
I knew "red diaper babies" when I was a kid, and in there would be serious discussions of why the US should have given the secrets to the A-bomb to Stalin. Also lots of angst over the Rosenbergs. Oppenheimer was definitely preachy from all I have read.
My arch-Republican father helped elude the draft: His reason? If we have the bomb and don't use it, it's not really a war.
He had some things to be worried about.
But we didn't have to watch and listen for three hours.