Days That Shook the World - Hiroshima

original title:
Days That Shook the World - Hiroshima
other titles:
(Tage, die die Welt bewegten - Hiroshima - 6. August 1945)
country / year of production:
Great Britain / 2005
original length:
45 min. , color
premiere:
D: 5 August 2005, 3sat (TV)
genre:
Documentary
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director:
Stephen Walker
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plot synopsis:
This documentary deals with the american atomic bomb, that was thrown on Hiroshima on August 6th in 1945. This and another american attack on Nagasaki caused the capitulation of Japan in World War II. The film deals with the innovation of weapons, the strategic plans of the USA, the Japanese victims and the late effects of the catastrophe.
keywords:
Hiroshima , atomic bomb , air raid , civilians , post-war era , wound, injury
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Bernd W. Kubbig (Hg.). Hiroshima und Nagasaki. Geschichte und Gegenwärtigkeit. Bonn: Wissenschaft & Frieden e.V., 1995.
remarks:
Fourth episode of a BBC-series with four parts, called "Days That Shook the World".
availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD