The film has been criticized for misrepresenting and falsifying information in order to create a sense of urgency in the viewing public. This 2011 documentary film discusses Iranian foreign policy and Iran – United States relations, including the Iran hostage crisis and the 1979 Iranian Revolution and takeover by Ayatollah Khomeini. Mark Dawidziak, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, summarized the film as follows: "The Bomb moves swiftly to cover Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cold War, the arms race, the Red Scare, the witch hunt, the Cuban Missile Crisis, test-ban treaties, the "Star Wars" initiative, the anti-nuke movement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of new nuclear threats." According to historian Richard Rhodes, “The invention was a millennial change in human history: for the first time, we were now capable of our own destruction as a species.”
This 2-hour PBS film was written and directed by Rushmore DeNooyer, who noted the project took a year and a half to complete, since much of the film footage and images was only recently declassified by the United States Department of Defense. This American documentary (2015) is about the history of nuclear weapons from their theoretical scientific considerations in the beginning, to their first use in1945, to their global political implications in the present day. Nevertheless, the effect of the atomic blast on local schools and churches is also shown. Nagasaki is then mentioned, with the narrator pointing out how much armament and other military supplies were being produced there, as well as the fact that even civilian homes were used for war work. Near the end of the interview, the priest is seen reading from a prepared statement. Siemes, a Jesuit priest who was living at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Nagatsuka, is shown to give the audience a firsthand account of the bombing. Afterwards, an interview with Father John A. The results of the bombing are then explained, with footage and descriptions of how various buildings were affected by the blast at different distances from ground zero. The narrator informs the audience about the military significance of the city and that it had not experienced bombing as yet, but it had been warned. Opening with the blast of the experimental bombing in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945, the film turns to the Enola Gay and its mission over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It documents the findings of a commission sent to Japan to assess the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Army Signal Corps Pictorial Division shortly after the end of the Second World War. A quote to illustrate what can be perceived as black humor, culled from the movie: "Viewed from a safe distance, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man," a U.S. Much of the humor derives from the modern audience's reaction to the old training films, such as the Duck and Cover film shown in schools. Though the topic of atomic holocaust is a grave matter, The Atomic Café approaches it with black humor. government-produced films (including military training films), advertisements, television and radio programs. The film covers the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival material from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s including newsreel clips, television news footage, U.S. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Video Codec: x264 CABAC Video Bitrate: CRF 20 (~2746Kbps).Several of them are no longer alive, they include the last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay - navigator Dutch Van Kirk who died in July 2014. Made on location in Hiroshima and the USA, it features unique interviews with eyewitnesses who have seldom, if ever, spoken about the experience.
This documentary gives a minute-by-minute account of what happened on that fateful day, through the testimony of people who were there and rarely-seen archive footage from the time. Up to 80,000 people - 30 per cent of the population - were killed by the blast and resulting firestorm and over 70,000 were injured. This documentary marks the 70th anniversary of the day when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by a Boeing B-29 USAF Superfortress bomber, nicknamed Enola Gay after the pilot's mother. August 6th 1945 marked the start of a terrifying new episode in human history.