Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan (1995)

Director:

Tim Curran

Writer:

Tim Curran

Stars:

Dwight Schultz, Fred Ashworth, Raymond Biel

Cast

Credited cast:
Dwight Schultz	...	Narrator (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fred Ashworth	...	Himself
Raymond Biel	...	Himself
Fred Bock	...	Himself
Jacob Bontakoe	...	Himself
Richard Cannon	...	Himself
George Cohen	...	Himself
James Corliss	...	Himself
Thomas Costa	...	Himself
Russell Gackenback	...	Himself
Ray Gallagher	...	Himself
Eugene Grennan	...	Himself
Fred Olivi	...	Himself
Jim Price	...	Himself
Harlow Russ	...	Himself

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

independent film

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Rain of Ruin

Filming Locations:

Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

B-29 Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min 45 min

Color:

Black and White Color

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

Under the credits, crew men describe for a US Army newsreel camera the first A-bomb missions. They can scarecely conceal their excitement.

User Reviews

Informative and dry.

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.