Race for the World's First Atomic Bomb: A Thousand Days of Fear

National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).

Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the...

Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the...

This captivating documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the architect of the atomic bomb, explores his journey before the historic test and reveals...

1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases...

We've all heard of the atomic bomb, but in the late 1950s, an idea was conceived of a bomb which would maximize damage to people, but minimize damage...

The true story of a young Japanese girl who played the piano for POWs during World War II and how it affected their lives. It is a story of humanity,...

The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely...

Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its state-of-the-art civil defense system.

The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.