Description
1 x 60'
Finestripe for ITV and Smithsonian Channel
Featuring incredible eyewitness accounts, this film sheds new light on the development, delivery and impact of the deadliest weapon ever used. On 6 August 2015, it will be 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Up to 80,000 people were instantly vapourised. It changed the course of world history. Through rare archive footage and the personal testimonies of people who were there, this bold documentary tells the full story of this landmark moment.
Covering the race to beat the Nazis to the technology, it contrasts the likely cost of a ground offensive with the ability to, in Churchill's words, 'end the whole war in one or two violent shocks.' Contributors include Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk, the only surviving member of the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the bomb.
Directed by Leslie Woodhead, award-winning director of The Day Kennedy Died and 9/11: The Day That Changed The World
Reviews:
"...minute-by-minute, forensic account, told through contemporary footage and an impressive range of interviewees" The Independent