Product Details

• Actors: Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida, Kiyoko Imori, Morris Jeppson, Lawrence Johnston
• Directors: Steven Okazaki
• Writers: Steven Okazaki
• Producers: Atsuko Shigesawa, Jason Cohen, Jules Greenberg, Kathleen Sullivan, Michael Wilson
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000RL6G8M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,906 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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82 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible heart-wrenching production, August 7, 2007

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Granolatx "Brad in Houston" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DVD)

If anyone ever says to you, "ah, just drop a nuke on them." Or, if any policy maker ever says, "What we need are tactical nuclear weapons", then they haven't seen nor understand the real horrors not of being killed, but surviving an atomic blast. Instantaneous disintegration is the easy part of this discussion. This is a movie from the survivors point of view that should be shown to all Americans, especially anyone who thinks nuclear war is a game to be won. The effects of these bombs in August, 1945 are still with the survivors today. I never stopped to think what life must be like with your skin burned off, or the side of your face sheered away, or skin dangling like string from your body. You may not be able to watch this documentary all the way through as you see U. S. Army footage of the actual horrors of these blasts, but when you return to the TV after having cried, you will leave with a deep understanding that nuclear weapons are one of the scientific advances the human race should never use again.

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Been There, August 6, 2007

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B. Grant (Indian Wells, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DVD)

This is an extra ordinary documentary. I have been to ground zero in Hiroshima and it was one of the most moving experiences in my life. An excellent piece with unbelievable fairness. Show this to your children.

23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A horribly touching documentary., August 10, 2007

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C. Harrigan (Brooklyn, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DVD)

I've cried every time I have seen this. The atomic bombing of Japan becomes personalized when the very few survivors tell their stories. This documentary truly shows you the destructive capability many countries have now amassed, and why we should never use it.