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8.1/10   17 votes
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Director:
Tim Curran
Writer:
Tim Curran (writer)
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User Comments:
Informative and dry. more

Cast

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Dwight Schultz ... Narrator (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fred Ashworth ... Himself (weaponeer, Bockscar, Nagasaki) (also archive footage)
Raymond Biel ... Himself (co-pilot, Top Secret)
Fred Bock ... Himself (original pilot, Bockscar, pilot, Great Artiste)
Jacob Bontakoe ... Himself (pilot, Top Secret)
Richard Cannon ... Himself (radarman, Plane 91)
George Cohen ... Himself (flight engineer, Top Secret)
James Corliss ... Himself (flight engineer, Plane 91)
Thomas Costa ... Himself (navigator, Some Punkins)
Russell Gackenback ... Himself (navigator, Plane 91)
Ray Gallagher ... Himself (asst. flight engineer, Bockscar)
Eugene Grennan ... Himself (flight engineer, Straight Flush)
Fred Olivi ... Himself (co-pilot, Bockscar, Nagasaki)
Jim Price ... Himself (pilot, Some Punkins)
Harlow Russ ... Himself (ordnance engineer)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Rain of Ruin (USA) (cable TV title)
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Runtime:
75 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English

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7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Informative and dry., 19 February 2003
8/10
Author: Skyler Windsor (Beckham7) from San Francisco, CA

This is an excellent documentary about the droppings of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Probably the best thing about this documentary is the archive footage. There are clips of the Enola Gay flying to Hiroshima with the instrument plane and the camera plane, and then they show a clip of the A-bomb being dropped over Hiroshima. It is pretty heartwrenching. Some of the footage is pretty graphic, like of the people's injuries, or the streets littered with skulls. I didn't learn too much more than I had before, but the footage is the most eye-opening thing about it. The interviews with the men involved in these missions are interesting too. This documentary moves rather slowly at first but once you get to the part where the bomb is being dropped on Hiroshima, it moves at a nice, brisk pace. The film attempts to be objective but it leans a little to the right, sometimes praising the pilots for dropping the bombs.

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