Screenings
Join us for 3 screenings a day at the Lumiere Theater, Los Angeles, from Nov 20-26, including Q&As with Tina Cordova & Paul Pino on Nov 20 & 21.
Time & Location
Nov 20, 2026, 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST
Lumiere Cinema, 9036 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211
About the event
Before Hiroshima. Before Nagasaki. There was Trinity.
First We Bombed New Mexico is coming to Los Angeles for one week only, November 20–26, at Lumiere Cinema in Beverly Hills.
In 1945, the U.S. secretly detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in New Mexico. The mostly Hispanic and Native American families who lived downwind got no warning and no help, and generations of cancers followed. The film follows cancer survivor Tina Cordova as she leads a decades-long fight to make Congress hear them.
In July 2025, that fight paid off. Congress expanded RECA to include New Mexico, and more than $1 billion will go to some of the state’s most vulnerable residents. Screenings of this film helped build the momentum for that victory. The newly revised cut adds this historic win as its new ending.
Join us opening weekend: Tina Cordova and Paul Pino will do a live Q&A after the 7:00 PM…