Fat Man and Little Boy
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Movie Reviews of Fat Man and Little Boy
Movie Review: I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
Summary: 4 Stars
Useful introduction for teachers to the Manhattan Project, the relationship between Groves and Oppenheimer, and the moral calamities faced by that first generation of atomic scientists. The film sometimes plays fast and loose with the sequence of events (Hollywood calls this "compression"), as in the case of a young scientist who dies of radiation sickness, but it's not as egregious as Gibson's "The Patriot". A good place to start with students born after 1995.Movie Review: Entertaining with a good dose of factual history
Summary: 4 Stars
I and other science teachers like to use this movie with our high school students. We usually include it with a unit on atomic theory. I explain to the students that of course, the producers have taken liberties with historical facts in order to make the movie more exciting, but they seem to take it in stride. I think it gives them a sense of what it might have really been like to be involved in the nuclear race. I highly recommend it.Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Very nice and entertaining movie overall. General Groves is masterfully played by Paul Newman, and Oppenheimer is also very well roled, but rest of important people were left out. Not much of a good portrait of mahattan project either; the movie only focuses on Los Alamos, living Oak Ridge, Hanford, Tinian and Hiroshima/Nagasaki out. Anyway it has place in my classics list.Movie Review: Uses for HS chem classes are endless
Summary: 4 Stars
this is a great movie to teach students about the atomic bomb and its creation. I use it in my chemistry class all the timeMovie Review: You also might be interested in the great mini-series "Oppenheimer"...
Summary: 3 Stars
The BBC released the great mini-series "Oppenheimer" on Region Two DVD 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.