{"id":54213,"date":"2025-07-12T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54213"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:50:10","slug":"watch-acclaimed-new-film-the-atomic-bowl-streaming-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/12\/watch-acclaimed-new-film-the-atomic-bowl-streaming-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Acclaimed New Film <I>The Atomic Bowl<\/I> Streaming Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell\u2019s newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/gregmitchell.substack.com\/\">Between Rock and a Hard Place<\/a>.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just to start briefly<\/strong>: So today is the big day, as my latest film, \u201cThe Atomic Bowl,\u201d started streaming this morning over PBS.org and all PBS apps (AppleTV, Roku, Android devices, iPhone, Vizio, Amazon Fire, Google TV,Samsung Smart TV and more). It will roll out over PBS stations during the next few weeks. That\u2019s the 30-second trailer at top but here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/atomic-bowl-football-at-ground-zero-and-nuclear-peril-today\/\" rel=\"\"> is the link to the PBS.org page<\/a> where you can watch now or via the apps. Narrated by Peter Coyote. And one more time: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FG1XN963?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.rX9XxTEqVgYvUlyTSBz3F31gwJsCoLpTNMbbAzT65kWYRgHQoydT876tB9jogP-LHag0JJZwGZSSqO8QnQcnno7kZ0F1u_faPI69Pd-ZAC_NFHQitoAOJ06tKoUbu55eIniH3wW3Jfi_FyEDuUOS6mYmWX88J1UR8IXfEEj-hPhIVFBFV1Srq4gK5q9s4JmUYL2rB6Jj_iK5-4055AR4FIPJfA9Dg3OcpOLJH5vhq7o.al2V14VhwvHhj03iSopeurB2x2gWPLffA9OjNNF3Vfg&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR\" rel=\"\">the companion e-book<\/a>, which was covered by the <em>Washington Post<\/em> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>If you watch the film (53 minutes) or read the book, let me know in comments or in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"https:\/\/gregmitchphoto.com\/atomicbowl\/\" rel=\"\">here for full responses to the film<\/a> so far (and more). Below, you\u2019ll find a few of them. Thank you to \u201cthe team\u201d: producer Lyn Goldfarb, editor Rob Burgos, composer John E. Low, associate producers Bill Geerhart and Barbara Bedway, researcher Tim Goldsmith, advisor Markus Nornes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"header-anchor-post\"><strong>Re: \u201cThe Atomic Bowl\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Today\u2019s nuclear tensions make Mitchell\u2019s storytelling more timely than ever.&#8221; &#8212; Will Bunch, <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cA master storyteller and an urgent reminder of the terrors of nuclear war.\u201d \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, <em>Esquire <\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fascinating. Poor Nagasaki got lost because it was the second bombing.&#8221; &#8211;Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winner for \u201cThe Making of the Atomic Bomb\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A great movie&#8211;a hidden chapter in atomic history revealed.&#8221; &#8212; Jayne Loader, co-director of &#8220;The Atomic Cafe&#8221; (now in the National Film Registry)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Excellent work&#8211;and very moving.&#8221;&#8211; Rick Perlstein, best-selling author of \u201cNixonland,\u201d \u201cReaganland,\u201d and other books<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This is superb and elicits very strong emotions. And also quite timely.&#8221;&#8211; Sarah Kernochan, two-time Academy Award-winning documentary director<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The story is riveting, and really fantastic archival film-making.&#8221; &#8212; Ben Proudfoot, winner of Academy Awards for best short documentaries 2021 and 2024<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn excellent, much-needed corrective to the general lack of coverage Nagasaki. \u201d \u2014 Glenn Silber, director of Academy Award nominee \u201cThe War at Home\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"preamble\">\n<p>Thanks for reading Between Rock and a Hard Place ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscribe-widget\" data-component-name=\"SubscribeWidget\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-justifyContent-center pc-reset\">\n<div class=\"_container_11q5m_1\">\n<form class=\"form _form_11q5m_6\" action=\"https:\/\/gregmitchell.substack.com\/api\/v1\/free?nojs=true\" method=\"post\" novalidate=\"\">\n<div class=\"_sideBySideWrap_11q5m_10\">\n<div class=\"_emailInputWrapper_11q5m_57\"><input class=\"pencraft _emailInput_11q5m_23\" name=\"email\" type=\"email\" placeholder=\"Type your email...\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including \u201cHiroshima in America,\u201d and the recent award-winning <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beginning-End-Hollywood-Learned-Worrying\/dp\/1620975734\">The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood \u2013 and America \u2013 Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb<\/a><i>, and has directed three documentary films since 2021, including two for PBS (plus award-winning \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/gregmitchphoto.com\/atomic-cover-up\/\">Atomic Cover-up<\/a>\u201d). He has written widely about the atomic bomb and atomic bombings, and their aftermath, for over forty years. He writes often at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oppenheimer2023.substack.com\/\">Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell\u2019s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Just to start briefly: So today is the big day, as my latest film, \u201cThe Atomic Bowl,\u201d started streaming this morning over PBS.org and all PBS apps (AppleTV, Roku, Android devices, iPhone, Vizio, Amazon Fire, Google TV,Samsung Smart TV and more). 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