Documentary, first broadcast in 1966, that tells the history of the superbomb, exploring the race by scientists to imitate the nuclear reactions of the sun and build the first thermonuclear weapon. The film reveals how the careers and reputations of some of the scientists involved were seared in the process.
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Ronald Baddiley as Narrator
Robert Beatty as Narrator
J. Robert Oppenheimer as self (archive footage)
Edward Teller as self (archive footage)
Enrico Fermi as self (archive footage)
Hans Bethe as self (archive footage)
King Gustaf V as self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill as self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman as self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin as self (archive footage)
Leslie Groves as self (archive footage)
Ernest Bevin as self (archive footage)
Vyacheslav Molotov as self (archive footage)
Lewis Strauss as self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower as self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy as self (archive footage)
Jim Latham Editor
United Kingdom 09 June 1966
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1966:
01 January 1966
Lou Reed faces the camera, posing with a large, partially unwrapped Hershey chocolate bar held up next to his face.
01 January 1966
A film record of M.E.T.E.I. (Medical Expedition to Easter Island), one of the most unusual scientific enquiries ever launched, headed by a McGill University research team.
01 November 1966
'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia.
01 January 1966
Lou Reed, posed in profile wearing dark glasses, slowly eats an apple, chewing carefully between bites; there is no camera movement.
01 August 1966
Or "Moe in Bondage" - The "Moe" of the title is the Velvet Underground's drummer, Maureen Tucker, whose band-mates have tied her to a chair and are now hanging around nibbling on sandwiches and pieces of fruit.
18 February 1966
When the minister of Palnadu opens the temple doors for all the castes in the kingdom, disputes arises in the kingdom leading to war.
05 October 1966
Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders.
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