Private Project

67 BOMBS TO ENID

From Executive Producer Errol Morris, 67 BOMBS TO ENID is an intimate, character-driven documentary about survivors of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands who were relocated to rural America. The film presents intimate access to characters with first-hand accounts of bomb blasts and their descendants who speak to the generational impact these perverse weapons of war have had on humans.

  • Ty McMahan
    Director
  • Kevin Ford
    Director
    Sr., The Bomb, The Pushback
  • Errol Morris
    Executive Producers
    Thin Blue Line, Fog of War
  • Brandon Kobs
    Producer
  • John Willams
    Co-Producers
  • Atilla Yücer
    Co-Producers
  • Zach Passero
    Co-Producers
  • Zach Passero
    Editors
  • Kevin Ford
    Editors
    Sr., The Bomb, The Pushback
  • Joseph Cash
    Music
  • Aaron Newberry
    Composer
  • Easton Oliver
    Additional Camera
  • Andrew Smetek
    Sound Mixer
  • Kevin Ford
    Director of Photography
    Sr., The Bomb, The Pushback
  • Jackson Hoover
    Location Sound
  • Easton Oliver
    Colorist
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 28 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Ty McMahan, Kevin Ford

Co-Directors Kevin Ford and Ty McMahan each bring a wide range of experience to the project. Kevin Ford produced, shot, and edited the Netflix feature documentary "Sr." which premiered at Telluride, NYFF, AFI, and also won Best Documentary from the National Board of Review in 2022 and a Grierson Award for Best Arts Documentary in 2023. In 2020 Kevin directed, shot, and edited The Pushback, a feature documentary produced by Richard Linklater, which was an official selection of SXSW and also won 3 awards at El Paso Film Festival, including Best Director. Other acclaimed projects include The Bomb (director, editor) which premiered at Tribeca and Berlinale, and was also featured at the Nobel Peace Awards ceremony in 2018. Ty McMahan has spent the bulk of his career as a journalist, including five years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York. His filmmaking efforts have included writing, directing, and producing, and his debut feature documentary, The Mundo King was released on Amazon. More recently he directed the documentary projects The Toy Cart (PBS), highlighting the healing power of art at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital and The 34 Project which showcased the miraculous results of a gym serving wheelchair-bound clients.

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Director Statement

As filmmakers we set out to make a documentary that would put a human face on the issue of nuclear weapons. With the threat of nukes raging more than ever - Russia is threatening to use them in Ukraine, China is actively aiming to build the largest weapon ever - our hope is that this documentary will serve as an artful, thoughtful, and prescient warning about the dangers facing all humankind if these weapons are ever used again. The Marshallese people featured in our film serve as living examples of the generational trauma that any use of nuclear weapons perpetuates. The United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons in their homeland nearly 70 years ago and to this day the land is contaminated with radiation, causing severe health effects in many of the original survivors and also their descendants. The characters featured in our film invited us into their lives to share their stories so that others might learn more about their struggles. Our hope is that be creating awareness, history will not repeat itself.