Hiroshima World War 2 Essay

The documentary chosen for this review was entitled “Hiroshima: BBC history of WWII”. It stuck out to me amongst many other choices because of the personal narrative of both sides of the bomb. The United States today is still the only country to have ever dropped a nuclear weapon on another country. By the middle of 1945, the war in Europe against Hitler and the Nazi regime was over and a full-scale invasion of Japans four Main Island was soon coming as the most probable outcome costing millions of Japanese, Americans, and American allies’ lives. The cost of Iwo Jima and Okinawa alone had left over 150,000 people dead but those numbers would only grow in an invasion on the main islands. This film touches on two topics leading into and out of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. one being the story of the hand full being the bombers who drop the bomb as they interviewed colonial Paul Tibbets, and second, the film in a very true to life way gives civilian Japanese victims faces and stories before and after the bomb as people died from the bomb itself and the radiation thereafter.
The director for the documentary is Paul Wilmshurst a well know British Television director. He has helped write episodes of “Doctor Who”. He has produced a number of documentaries including “Secrets and Lies” which looks inside the world of
A using these personal narratives to tell a story of what occurred before, during and after the bomb was drop. He gave perspective to the bombers who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. He gave a face to a close lieutenant of President Truman who sat in on meetings discussing the decision to drop the bomb. He gave voices to those who survived the bomb as the eye-witness account of what they could only describe as hell. The purpose of writing was to give the viewer a more well-rounded view of the events from the first nuclear test to the surrender of