White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2007 · 86 mins · English

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Directed by

Steven Okazaki

Starring

Lawrence Johnston, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Shuntaro Hida, Harold Agnew, Morris Jeppson

Steven Okazaki offers a moving look at the painful legacy of the first—and hopefully only—use of nuclear weapons. The film includes interviews with fourteen atomic‑bomb survivors and four American officials involved in the attacks. Their testimonies give a detailed view of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their aftermath.