Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Hitchcoc We viewed this docudrama at a book study on the acceptability of the Truman's decision to bomb Japan. I was expecting to see a presentation of the awful realities of the bombing and appreciated that it really got into what went on behind closed doors, leading up to August 6, 1945. We are allowed into the private discussions with Truman, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of State. Also, people like Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi make an appearance. There is a counter to these people as we watch Hirohito and the Japanese high command debate things like no surrender until the last Japanese citizen is dead. It is a little dry as these things must have been. For one thing, nobody knew exactly how much damage this bomb would do and whether it could even be delivered and armed. This is not preachy and I liked that. It showed nations under stress from the horrors of war, not knowing how many more of their loved ones would be lost. I spoke to several of my elderly friends and relatives who have continued to have no second thoughts about the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They lived in a frightening world. Still, the horrible implications of nuclear weapons cause us to think. While this film would never win an Emmy for its acting, it gives us a view of the way things were and does in a pretty effective way.

pmcmurry First of all, it would have been absolutely impossible to find a actor who looked and acted more like Harry Truman that Kenneth Walsh. Second, the most fascinating aspects of this movie relate to what was happening in Japan at the closing of the war. The idea that a majority of the military officers would have rather seen Japan cease to exist as a people than to surrender really provides some counter-balance to all of the recent revisionist history that claims that Japan was in the process of surrendering and that the U.S. used the A-bomb simply to avenge earlier Japanese treachery. "Hiroshima" is historical film-making at its best.

amazme3 I found this masterpiece of a film by perusing the cable tv guide. Being a war history enthusiast, I was drawn to the content of the movie, only to realize that the production and actors and characters and images and storyline were equally well done. None of the performers are big celebrities, but that fact takes nothing away from their incredible performances and likenesses to the true people they portrayed. Kenneth Welsh as Harry Truman and Wesley Addy as Sec of War Stimson dominate with memorable renditions, but the entire cast deserves almost equal praise. I was not aware that President Truman was on a battleship when the uranium bomb descended on Hiroshima. The attitudes of American and Japanese leaders were nicely shown, and Truman's portrayed thoughtfulness and decisiveness were impressive. One of the infrequent 10's of my movie history. The docu-drama format gave the piece an even more realistic appeal.

kaijuguy Hiroshima is a great film, originally made for cable, about events leading up to the A-bomb being dropped on Japan. It shows the Japanese perspective very well and is one of the better WW2 films of recent years. Surprisingly, it is mostly a Canadian production that is very accurate with the facts they put on screen. Very well done.