The Atomic Cafe

The Atomic Café is a pinnacle of the cinema subgenre known as archive documentary film. Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty, the authors, conducted an extensive research for newsreels, government films and old television broadcasts that contained atomic propaganda. They assembled the materials with the premise of not introducing any foreign element (voice over, graphs, experts, interviews, soundtrack) with the idea of letting the footage “speak for itself”. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".