Radio Bikini
“The Most Terrifying and Unbelievable Story of the Nuclear Age”
1988•56m•7.4•Released
Documentary
Robert Stone’s Academy Award–nominated documentary reconstructs the 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. Built largely from previously unseen U.S. government archival footage and eyewitness accounts, the film recounts the relocation of the Bikini Islanders and the experiences of American sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout during the experiments. The documentary later aired as part of the PBS series American Experience.
Director
Robert Stone
Languages
English, Marshall, Russian
Studio
Channel 4 Television
Cast
Kilon Bauno
Self
John Smitherman
Self
Warren Austin
Self (archive footage)
Bernard Baruch
Self (archive footage)
W.H.P. Blandy
Self (archive footage)
Albert Einstein
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Channel 4 Television
Producer
Robert Stone
Recommended
7.2
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995
7.8
The Skywalker Legacy
2020
7.2
To Be Takei
2014
7
An Inconvenient Truth
2006
7.1
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
2020
7.8
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
2014
7.2
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7
Capturing Avatar
2010
6
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
2021
6.7
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
2014
7.6
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes
2019
6.7
Sherman's March
1985
5.9
Voyeur
2017
7.7
Citizenfour
2014
7.9
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
7.3
Powaqqatsi
1988
7.6
Earth
2007
7.1
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
7.5
A Plastic Ocean
2016
6.1
Room 237
2012
Similar Movies
8
Rainbow Warrior
2022
Taking Stock
1994
Burnt Country
2024
Pacífico
2020
7
An Inconvenient Truth
2006
8
The Rosenbergs: Atomic Spies
2025
7
Triangle Fire
2011
8.2
Nazi Town, USA
2024
5.9
Plastic People
2024
Territorios extraordinarios
2016
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
1988
About the Forest
2021
6.5
The End of the Line
2009
7.3
The Ants and the Grasshopper
2021
6.5
Suspension
2019
The Water Cycle
1972
9
Ulysses S. Grant
2002
American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2)
2002
9
The Wright Stuff
1996
Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter
1996