Hiroshima: The Aftermath

This so-called documentary is a completely biased, revisionist account of the decision and mission to use the first atomic weapon on Japan. The narrative implies that Japan was going to surrender anyway but the Americans ignored their peace feelers to that the bomb could be used in action. What rubbish. If they were going to surrender, then they should have surrendered before the bomb could be dropped.

What particularly galls me are the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project and have since spoken out against the use of the bomb. They were completely happy eating their government-issued roast beef and lamb and ice cream at Los Alamos, and they took their paychecks for working on the bomb from the U.S. government with pleasure, and now they have the nerve to play holier than thou? The old scientist in the film that hinted he should have sabotaged the bomb should be charged with treason.

Don't watch this film, unless you want to be either angered or entertained by the anti-American, ham-fisted, bleeding-heart propaganda.

P.S. Spoiler alert. The Japanese started the war, and the U.S. won it, in part thanks to the bomb.

I'm not certain the other reviewer (or at least a person who commented) on this film actually watched the video. The comment so far removed from reality I can only assume this was the rambling of someone who feels ashamed of what the US military did to the people of Hiroshima (and Nagasaki, for that matter).

This is one of the only historically true documentaries on this horrible event that doesn't include images of US bodies washed-up on some island - in an attempt to justify killing all those tens of thousands of civilians in the name of "saving US lives".

This documentary is horrible. The images are disturbing. But this documentary is real - which makes it all the more disturbing.

Claims to be "The Real History" and then proceeds to consider no other viewpoint but their own. This would have been better framed as "another side of the story."

This is garbage. Its the definition of revisionist history. Its like they went through all the historic documents and picked the ones that fit their anti-American agenda.

Any responsible WW2 historian should be dismayed. The truth was that the bombs was the only option, and it ultimately served the purpose of showing the world how futile nuclear warfare was. As a result, there hasn't been a major was since.

This is a filthy lie.

This documentary definitely wasn't put together with objective reporting being the goal. There were many half truths, distortions, and outright lies. The writer and director Lucy van Beek definitely had an agenda that wasn't related to being an unbiased historian. If you are looking for a documentary on Hiroshima that at least attempts to be fair and balanced, bypass this one.