The WWII documentary that I chose to watch was called Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II. I feel that this movie did a wonderful job covering what happened leading up to and after we dropped the first weapon of mass destruction on the militarised city of Hiroshima. Whenever possible, they used real footage from the actual event, and when they couldn't, they made it exactly how it was described. The structure of the entire movie was based off of interviews that were done with people that experienced it.
It started off by describing what was going on around the rest of the world before it went to Los Alamos and showed the testing of the bomb. Originally it was going to be used on Germany, but decided that it would be more useful if used on the Japanese because their extensive training needed to be stopped. The Army then decided on bombing Hiroshima due to the fact that the city was used extensively for military training, and it had not been bombed already so we could try to gage the effects of the weapon. There were also interviews with those ranging f
rom the crew that dropped the bomb, to those who survived.
Some of the most disturbing things were that many thousands of people were instantly burned to dust, and that the bomb actually made it rain. When it blew, it sent so much dust and water from the river into the cold atmosphere, it condensed and fell as black, radioactive rain. Anybody that drank it would eventually die a painful death from radiation poisoning. Their bodies couldn't fight off infections, so they
literally rotted from the inside out while they were still alive. Many people who didn't die instantly, had their skin melted off their bodies.
Overall, it was a good movie. It was very realistic and entirely based on witness accounts. There's too much information to describe in this short of a blog. I would recommend watching it. 10/10
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Very sad topic but it ended the war. Well done!