Docu-Drama - 92 mins
Audience - General
Classification - 12 (contains moderate violence and distressing horror)
Region - 2+4
Format - PAL
Language - English
Subtitles - SDH

Product weight 120g

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At 8.15am on 6 August 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Hroshima. A scientific, technological, military and political gamble - the attack proved to be the defining moment of the 20th century.

Set in the three weeks from the first test explosion in New Mexico to the eventual dropping of the bomb, the action takes viewers into the room where the crucial political decisions were made; on board the Enola Gay on her fateful voyage and even inside the bomb as it explodes.

On the streets of Hiroshima we witness the devastation. Nearly 100,000 people were killed instantly and those who managed to survive - in spite of the lethal heat-blast, the colossal shockwave and the invisible effects of gamma radiation tell stories of a living nightmare.

 Parallel storylines interweave, unfolding the action from both US and Japanese perspectives.

Using archive footage, state-of-the-art visual techniques and dramatic reconstructions based on unprecedented access to protagonists and witnesses, Hiroshima places the dropping of the bomb in its historical and political context and unflinchingly depicts the effects of the terrifying nuclear explosion.

Special features include - Interview with the producer, A Tale of Two Cities, Enola Gay Newsreel Interview

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