CinemaOSMovie · 2015 · 0h 55m

The Day They Dropped The Bomb

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On August 6 1945, one plane dropped one bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the city was destroyed and 80,000 people were dead. But the dropping of the Atomic bomb also launched the Nuclear age, shaping all of our lives and changing the world for ever. For this film we have tracked down people who made the bomb, people who dropped the bomb, and people who were in Hiroshima – some less than half a mile from ground zero -when the bomb fell on their city. Many of the witnesses are in their 90s and this will be the last time they will be able to tell their extraordinary stories. The Day They Dropped The Bomb is told through witness recollections, rare archive film and photographs shot at the time. The documentary will be broadcast for the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima next year by ITV and in America by the Smithsonian Channel.

Directed byLeslie Woodhead

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 55m
Language
EN
Released
July 29, 2015
Studios
ITV

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Dominic West

Dominic West

Narrator (Voice)

Russell Gackenbach

Himself

George Elsey

Himself

Lilli Hornig

Herself

Bob Krohn

Himself

Yoshie Oka

Herself

Tetsushi Yonezawa

Himself

Dutch Van Kirk

Himself

Creative team
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Leslie Woodhead

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