Overview - Hiroshima

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary
  • Drama
  • War
  • History

Runtime: 89 minutes

Homepage: Hiroshima

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • 日本語

Production companies

  • Name: BBC

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: TF1

    Production country France

  • Name: ZDF

    Production country Germany

  • Name: Discovery

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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

  • Name: John Hurt

    Character: Narrator (voice)

    Popularity: 2.2951

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  • Name: Shuntaro Hida

    Character: Self - Hiroshima Survivor

    Popularity: 0.9927

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  • Name: Robert Austin

    Character: Winston Churchill

    Popularity: 0.7806

  • Name: George Anton

    Character: Parsons

    Popularity: 0.5592

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  • Name: George Elsey

    Character: Self - Military Advisor

    Popularity: 0.238

  • Name: Paul Tibbets

    Character: Self - Pilot, Enola Gay

    Popularity: 0.2645

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  • Name: Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk

    Character: Self - Navigator, Enola Gay

    Popularity: 0.2371

  • Name: Akiko Takakura

    Character: Self - Hiroshima Survivor

    Popularity: 0.1179