Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
- atomic bomb
- energiestrahlenwaffe
- atomic bomb test
- nuclear explosion
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
William Shatner
Narrator
Edward Teller
Self - Nuclear Physicist
W.H.P. Blandy
Self - Commander Joint Task Force One (archive footage)
Frank H. Shelton
Self - Nuclear Weaponeer
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Self - U.S. President (archive footage)
- Adlai Stevenson — Self - U.S Ambassador (1961-1965) to the UN (archive footage
- Randall William Cook — Newsreel Narrator (archive sound)
- Nikolai Bulganin — Self (archive footage)
- Winston Churchill — Self (archive footage)
- Everett Dirksen — Self (archive footage)
- Albert Einstein — Self (archive footage)
- Enrico Fermi — Self (archive footage)
- Reed Hadley — Self (archive footage)
- Averell Harriman — Self (archive footage)
- Adolf Hitler — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Peter Kuran
- Written
- Don Pugsley, Scott Narrie
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 68 ratings
- Studio
- Visual Concept Entertainment, Documentary Film Works
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
