Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan (1995)

Director:

Tim Curran

Writer:

Tim Curran

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

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
Clement Attlee	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kermit Beahan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thomas Blamey	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George R. Caron	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Winston Churchill	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Kuzma Derevyanko	...	Himself (in Tokyo Bay, first row, on Blamey's right) (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Anthony Eden	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Albert Einstein	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thomas Farrell	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thomas Ferebee	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Enrico Fermi	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Klaus Fuchs	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leslie Groves	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
C.E.L. Helfrich	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hirohito	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yung-Chang Hsu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leonard M. Isitt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Morris Jeppson	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Toshikazu Kase	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Koichi Kido	...	Himself (Japanese Cabinet, in group, to Hirohito's left) (archive footage) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Jacques Leclerc	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Lewis	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Douglas MacArthur	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George C. Marshall	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Vyacheslav Molotov	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Katauo Okazaki	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
J. Robert Oppenheimer	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Parsons	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
A.E. Percival	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Franklin D. Roosevelt	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mamoru Shigemitsu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Carl Spaatz	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Henry L. Stimson	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Richard K. Sutherland	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles W. Sweeney	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leo Szilard	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul Tibbets	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hideki Tojo	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry S. Truman	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yoshijiro Umezu	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Theodore Van Kirk	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jonathan M. Wainwright	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Tim Curran

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Tim Curran

Produced by
Tim Curran	....	producer

Film Editing by
Stuart Mickolite

Camera and Electrical Department
Terry McArdle	....	location camera
Tom Zannes	....	location camera

Other crew
Walter Boyne	....	historical consultant
Barry Cawthorn	....	archival researcher
Jay Miller	....	historical consultant
Leon Williams	....	archival researcher

Production Companies

• B-29 Productions

Also Known As:

"Rain of Ruin" - USA (cable TV title)

Runtime:

75 min | USA:45 min (excluding commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Filming Locations:

Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Company:

B-29 Productions

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.