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The Atmic Cafe is a must see documentary for the conspiracy theorist, in all of us! You could be forgiven for thinking you bought the wrong DVD... its cheesy music and cheesier narration, Hitchcock would have been proud of the US governments' producers & directors. As it is just a "Red Herring" twist, that has monumental consequences for the world we live in. Did, the powers that be, in the 1950's actually believe that "duck and cover" would protect their citizens from NUCLEAR attack?? i dont think so, but the propaganda machine MADE the general population believe! In one scene, a 20megaton bomb was exploded in Nevada, USA, while a few miles away, a platoon of US Army "guinea pigs", without protection, were ordered to advance toward the bombsite, with radiation gauges attached...spine tingling stuff! My only complaint, is that it wasnt long enough! 10 out of 10!!! graham killian, Western Australia... tell your friends, tell your enemies, they will alll enjoy it!Read full review
Astonishing look at the world that I grew up in. Born in Chicago 1942, we lived under the supposed threat of an atomic atack by The Soviet Union, who had stolen the secrets of the Atomic Bomb through spies and exploded their own Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in the early 1950's. Paranoia was common, both in government and among the population of the United States. Senator Eugene McCarthy was accusing all sorts of high ranking U.S. Government officials of being Commnunists and nascent and nearly ubiquitious home televisions sets were braodcasting McCarthy's "hearings" into everyone's home five days a week. McCarthy was finally exposed as a demagogue when he got power crazy and went to far calling everyone a Communist. Check out Army/McCarthy Hearings for more details of a very weird time in America. Read full review
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This movie touts itself as a comic horror film. Atomic Cafe is a conglomeration of clips from broadcasts and propaganda films mostly shot during the cold war. It illustrates how much fear, and at the same time, fascination we had of any thing atomic; and how much the government tried to calm the fear while playing up the fascination. If you'll pardon the pun... this film is the bomb! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED but not for everybody. Schools should show this in history class though.
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Use it to scare Millennials? No "characters", it being a documentary on how to survive a nuclear war and how Americans is particular were brainwashed into complacency. Propaganda. Entertaining in a sick and twisted sort of way. :-)
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Not a conventional DVD. Provides an overview of the hysteria in the U.S. accompanying the nuclear age. Should be watched by every young person in particular.
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