Browse Films

Because of the horrible Japanese nuclear disasters we are updating this documentary. It will be available soon. 

There are other documentaries about the atomic bomb, but none include what is in this one, for the first time:

• It challenges the widely held U.S. assumption that dropping the bomb on Nagasaki was essential to end World War II. The provocative arguments about that decision have never been part of a U.S. documentary.
• It presents information about an almost unknown part of post World War II history: the Press Code imposed by the U.S. occupation government on Japans media. Prohibiting media reports on the bomb or its health effects, the Code had a significant effect on how survivors were mistreated in their own country and how their health problems were misunderstood. 
• It presents information about the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, a U.S. agency that gathered data from thousands of survivors, sent that data to the U.S.not Japanand did not attempt to ameliorate the health problems of the survivors.

It also is innovative in crossing generations, by showing an elderly bomb survivor accompanied by college students who are inspired to take up her cause.

In one of the films most powerful moments Sakue describes her sisters suicide ten years after the war ended as "the courage to die." Mrs. Shimohira, the survivor, found "the courage to live" and dedicate her life to abolishing nuclear weapons.

We follow her and two college students as they talk with U.S., British. French and Japanese students, with Sakue's responses interwoven with rare archival footage.

Schedule the filmmaker to appear with the film and lead a Q&A: email RRProd@aol.com

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