Movies: Atomic bomb

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibit...

The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically, socially and politically. All these factors gave birth to one of the most prolific film genres in the...

Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the Hiroshima bomb. During Obon, she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Finally Akiko experiences paternal love in the middle of the ruins of Hiroshima....

This was the only documentary made in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of 1945. Japanese filmmakers entered the two cities intent on making an appeal to the International Red Cross, but were promptly arrested by newly arriving American troops. Th...

A president and his government are meeting in emergency after an enemy country launches a nuclear missile....

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors....

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Based on testimony by Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, the Rosenbergs are arrested by the FBI. The couple is accused of passing secret information about the atomic bomb to the USSR. Though the Rosenbergs maintain their innocence from the start, the...

The Moment in Time documents the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II when it was feared the Nazis were developing the atomic bomb. The history of the bomb's development is traced through recollections of those who worked on what was known...

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October 1945. A young Japanese boy in the devastated city of Nagasaki, two months after the atomic bomb, carries on his back the lifeless body of his younger brother. An American military photographer, Joe O'Donnell, took a picture of the boy standin...

An educational film that instructs people on how to survive atomic bombs and the radiation they emit while following a family facing nuclear attack who calmly prepare for the aftermath. Shows the various modes of Civil Defense that were being develop...

Made to mark the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons being detonated over Japan in August 1945, this documentary uses colourised black and white photographs and reels of film capturing the project that developed the atomic bomb....

Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable testimonies to reflect on how these people continue to overcome the atomic bombing of 1945....

A short documentary made from archival footage that explores the various dynamics of Japan and the U.S.A. during ww2...

Short film that emphasizes the importance of keeping a tidy home when facing an atomic bomb....

This documentary explores famous figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who was called, "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project....

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk navigated the first atomic bombing mission in Hiroshima, Japan, and later participated in the first Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests....

Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the horror experienced by victims of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb attack. "Hiroshima" stunned readers with ...

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