Hiroshima
06/08/2005
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.
Movie Information
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)
