75 hours that rewrote humanity — the untold gap between two atomic horrors.
Scholars and eyewitnesses provide a picture of the 75 hours between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and document the contradictions, interrelationships, and ambiguities of politics and military strategy in time of war.
Writing
Linda Hunt's narration cuts like a scalpel through official excuses.
Direction
Segaller lets silence do what reenactments never could.
Production
Rare archival footage that governments wanted buried.
Director
Stephen Segaller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Segaller discovered that weather reports, not military targets, determined Nagasaki's fate — a detail suppressed in official accounts for decades.
Released for the 50th anniversary, this was among the first US documentaries to interview Japanese survivors without American historians 'translating' their trauma for them.
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