Hiroshima
06/08/2005
1h 29m

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.
Cast


John Hurt
Narrator (voice)


Shuntaro Hida
Self - Hiroshima Survivor
Robert Austin
Winston Churchill


George Anton
Parsons
George Elsey
Self - Military Advisor


Paul Tibbets
Self - Pilot, Enola Gay
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk
Self - Navigator, Enola Gay
Akiko Takakura
Self - Hiroshima Survivor


Daniel Ben Zenou
Beser


Ed Bishop
Stimson


Katsumi Cho
Admiral Yonai
Noboru Akima
General Anami
Lee Colley
Van Kirk


Garry Cooper
Groves


Kenneth Jay
Harry Truman


Haruka Kuroda
Akiko Takakura


Tim Matthews
Major Thomas Ferebee


Shane Rimmer
James F. Byrnes


Fredrick Ruth
Robert Oppenheimer


J. Robert Oppenheimer
Self (archive footage)


Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)


Emperor Hirohito of Japan
Self (archive footage)
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