Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
The documentary recounts the world's first nuclear attack and examines the alarming repercussions. Covering a three-week period from the Trinity test to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the program chronicles America's political gamble and the planning for the momentous event. Archival film, dramatizations, and special effects feature what occurred aboard the Enola Gay (the aircraft that dropped the bomb) and inside the exploding bomb.
- atomic bomb
- radiation
- world war ii
- interview
- hiroshima
- japan
- radioactivity
- docudrama
- seppuku
- archive footage
- burn victim
The bill
John Hurt
Narrator (voice)
Shuntaro Hida
Self - Hiroshima Survivor
Robert Austin
Winston Churchill
George Anton
Parsons
- George Elsey — Self - Military Advisor
- Paul Tibbets — Self - Pilot, Enola Gay
- Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk — Self - Navigator, Enola Gay
- Akiko Takakura — Self - Hiroshima Survivor
- Daniel Ben Zenou — Beser
- Ed Bishop — Stimson
- Katsumi Cho — Admiral Yonai
- Noboru Akima — General Anami
- Lee Colley — Van Kirk
- Garry Cooper — Groves
- Kenneth Jay — Harry Truman
- Directed
- Paul Wilmshurst
- Written
- Paul Wilmshurst
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 60 ratings
- Studio
- BBC, TF1, ZDF, Discovery
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