Atomic Bomb Movies

Brand new documentary marking the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings which ended WWII and began the nuclear age. Features...

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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Chronicling the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940s, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.

The personalities behind the creation of the world's first atomic bomb were as extraordinary, and often as explosive, as the science they were...

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

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...

Schort documentary on the atomic bomb.

Made to mark the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear weapons being detonated over Japan in August 1945, this documentary uses colourised black and...

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

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

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...

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