Hiroshima
Documentary
Drama
War
History
The Horror, the pain and the suffering of Hiroshima!
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
2005-08-06
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Cast
Director
Paul Wilmshurst
John Hurt as Narrator (voice)
Shuntaro Hida as Self - Hiroshima Survivor
George Anton as Parsons
Paul Tibbets as Self - Pilot, Enola Gay
Daniel Ben Zenou as Beser
Ed Bishop as Stimson
Katsumi Cho as Admiral Yonai
Lee Colley as Van Kirk
Garry Cooper as Groves
Kenneth Jay as Harry Truman
Haruka Kuroda as Akiko Takakura
Tim Matthews as Major Thomas Ferebee
Shane Rimmer as James F. Byrnes
Fredrick Ruth as Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman as Self (archive footage)
Emperor Hirohito of Japan as Self (archive footage)