Timelines help us to place films in their historical setting and to observe how films are related to social, political and technological contexts. Sometimes timelines answer questions; other times they help us to raise new questions. The following timeline includes a selection of atomic bomb related films aligned with historically related events. Films on the timeline are linked to their Internet Movie Database page, with release dates as those listed on IMDb, and Wikipedia entries are provided for events. This timeline focuses mainly on American and Japanese dramatic films, though a few other regions and genres are included. Several works of scholarship were consulted in compiling the timeline, including Broderick (1991), Evans (1998) and Shapiro (2002). In the interest of completeness, some of these works have very comprehensive timelines, which at times seem to stretch the bounds of what would be recognized as an atomic bomb film, and events listed may skirt into tangential issues such as scientific discoveries, political developments or the emergence of nuclear energy industries. The present timeline has no claim to completeness, and should instead be thought of as a sketch to inspire reflection and conversation.
07 October 2019
A Timeline of Atomic Bomb Films and Events, Part One
Timelines help us to place films in their historical setting and to observe how films are related to social, political and technological contexts. Sometimes timelines answer questions; other times they help us to raise new questions. The following timeline includes a selection of atomic bomb related films aligned with historically related events. Films on the timeline are linked to their Internet Movie Database page, with release dates as those listed on IMDb, and Wikipedia entries are provided for events. This timeline focuses mainly on American and Japanese dramatic films, though a few other regions and genres are included. Several works of scholarship were consulted in compiling the timeline, including Broderick (1991), Evans (1998) and Shapiro (2002). In the interest of completeness, some of these works have very comprehensive timelines, which at times seem to stretch the bounds of what would be recognized as an atomic bomb film, and events listed may skirt into tangential issues such as scientific discoveries, political developments or the emergence of nuclear energy industries. The present timeline has no claim to completeness, and should instead be thought of sketch to inspire reflection and conversation.
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