Atomic Bomb Movies

"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving hi...

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

How the tragic death of one man triggered a David and Goliath battle between two Allies that echoed around the world and became the catalyst to end nu...

This conventional post-nuclear holocaust drama from Yugoslav director Veljko Bulajic seems to be at cross purposes. On the one hand, its anti-war sent...

The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically, s...

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima, then again at Nagasaki. Now nearing 90, Yamaguchi...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular rebirth, Tok...

Our two-hour film highlights the life and career of Dr. Schreiber with respect and clarity. Raemer, his wife Marge, and young daughter Paula would mov...

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...

The U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictorial Division made this short documentary shortly after the end of WWII to look at the after-effects of the atomic bom...

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her...

A documentary composed of historical footage and contemporary interviews from the men and women of Los Alamos, recalling their experiences of the comm...

Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable testimonies to reflect on how thes...

The Manhattan Project was an enormous undertaking that required the efforts of many of the world's most brilliant intellectuals. Hundreds of physicist...

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

The true story of a young Japanese girl who played the piano for POWs during World War II and how it affected their lives. It is a story of humanity,...

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif...

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 his...

An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the lives he saved. 70 years later his family searches f...

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).