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Hiroshima

7.1 89 mins Documentary   Drama   War   History   2005
BBC   TF1   ZDF   Discovery  
Director(s): Paul Wilmshurst

Release Date: 06 Sat, Aug 2005

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.

Casts of Hiroshima

John Hurt

as Narrator (voice)

Shuntaro Hida

as Self - Hiroshima Survivor

Robert Austin

as Winston Churchill

George Anton

as Parsons

George Elsey

as Self - Military Advisor

Paul Tibbets

as Self - Pilot, Enola Gay

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk

as Self - Navigator, Enola Gay

Akiko Takakura

as Self - Hiroshima Survivor

Daniel Ben Zenou

as Beser

Ed Bishop

as Stimson

Katsumi Cho

as Admiral Yonai

Noboru Akima

as General Anami

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)

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