Trinity (2025)- Impossible To Not Be Shocked And Moved By This Documentary
A new documentary is coming to video on demand services on Tuesday, and I got a sneak peek. Trinity is another slap you in the face account of how we continued random atrocities even in the modern age. It jumps off on the assumption that you believed the story that the area we tested the atomic bomb in was uninhabited. Well, as one might assume, we fucked that one up. Of course, there were considerations and variables about the lasting effect of radiation, and how far the wind would carry waste. While no one may have died in the actual blast, Trinity proves it is far more complicated than that.
From using Navajo men to mine the initial uranium deposits, to letting the waste infect the drinking water for the indigenous people living in the area, all the way up to not informing the Navajo people that they perhaps lived a little too close to the blast site, we continue to give very little thought to the people who rightfully initially belonged on the land we keep polluting, developing, and destroying.
However, I’m still a blind film critic, and Trinity did not have audio description. While I’m more likely to give a documentary a pass over a narrative feature, Trinity had a few moments where the music was more intense, no one was talking, and I had no reference to anything that was or could be happening. It is a shame because I love a great social challenge documentary that puts a spotlight previously where there wasn’t one. Trinity taught me something I did not know, and could not have known, because we are so wrapped up in our fragility as a people that we really don’t go much beyond the Trail of Tears when it comes to Native American history.
Trinity even takes the time to brush on the indoctrination of tribal youth, which is explored in greater detail in the Oscar nominated Sugar Cane. By all accounts, this is an excellent documentary, and I’m wondering where it will land on my list at the end of the year. It has so long to go, with so many more documentaries to be thrown at me. Still, any documentary that beats Trinity likely only did so because it had audio description, and was somehow more horrifying.
Unwatchable Due To Lack Of Audio Description
Projected Grade With Audio Description: A-, A
