Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise was released on August 8, 2015.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise was directed by Mark Cousins.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise has a runtime of 71m.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise was produced by Heather Croall, John Archer, Mark Atkin.

Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise is a Documentary film.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise has an audience rating of 6.9 out of 10.