The Manhattan Project in Colour
Aug 06, 2025 | IMDB 7
47 min Watch NowDocumentary
Made to mark the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons being detonated over Japan in August 1945, this documentary uses colourised black and white photographs and reels of film capturing the project that developed the atomic bomb.
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