Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story

Jun 1, 1981

0h 52m

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Overview

A document of Australia's nuclear industrial history, from uranium mining and its toxic legacy to the nuclear weapons tests conducted at Maralinga in South Australia.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission

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Narrator

Martin Vaughan

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Test of a clean hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons

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Documentary movie about testing of the largest nuclear weapon in history, the Tsar Bomba. Declassified and made available to the public in 2020.

5.7

Broken Rainbow

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Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.

6.0

We Are the Guinea Pigs

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Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the South Australian regional town of Mount Gambier in the mid 1960s.

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In 1954, the United States tested 6 hydrogen bombs on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Numerous Japanese fishing boats were operating in surrounding waters, and their crews were exposed to radioactive fallout. But the Japanese government has acknowledged the cases of just 23 crewmembers. Now, scientists from Hiroshima have shed light on facts that had been buried for 60 years.

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Burning Sky

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Path of the Plume

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Nuclear weapons are instruments of mass destruction that exact a devastating toll on human life. In the heart of rural Utah, the Lovell family recounts the harrowing tale of nuclear testing’s shadowy legacy and impact on innocent civilians

5.5

Radium City

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Documentary about the Radium Dial Company and the aftereffects experienced by its workers from repeated exposure to radioactive paint.

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Uranium: Is It a Country?

Nov 27, 2008

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6.3

100 Years of the Atom

Dec 5, 2020

The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importance that ushered in the nuclear age, has a dark side: the many events in which people were exposed to radiation, both intentionally and by accident.

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Walkatjurra: Our Actions Will Never Stop

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WORLD PREMIERE: It is the 70th anniversary of the first nuclear test in indigenous Australian territory and the aboriginal communities call on activists from all over the world to carry out a 200 km anti-nuclear walk through the desert. Among them, the directors of this documentary join to record this walk, which seeks to end the extraction of uranium, the mineral with which atomic bombs are produced. What attitude will we take as humanity in the face of the possibility of creation and destruction

7.2

Hiroshima

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The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.

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7.7

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8.0

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Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story

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