White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Suitably powerful, given the subject matter, but difficult to rate as a "movie" for the same reason. The filmmakers were wise to play it straight, giving us the facts and images of the after effects of the Aug. '45 atomic blasts, and letting them speak for themselves. And if they don't, the interviews with the survivors, and their stories of finding headless babies and parents and siblings with burned-out eyeholes surely will. As the one survivor said, this can never happen again.

It's hard for me to rate this documentary. Don't know if it is possible to make a documentary about the subject that wouldn't have an emotionally impact on the wiever. The film focuses on the survivors of the bombings. It doesn't point fingers on who's guilty, but reminds of the horrors sensless wars can bring upon us.

One of those very rare works of art that have the potential to change your life, or perhaps your way of thinking, forever, even though you thought you knew the message before you saw the film. How could we have done such a thing? (The answer - "It shortened the war" - becomes completely inadequate in the face of such suffering.)

Crafty little thing. Pretensions of objectivity appear to allow the footage and interviews to speak for themselves with next to no audible involvement on the part of the filmmakers, but it still feels manipulated. Particularly liked the inclusion of various cultural happenings: the two piece rock band, improv painting/trumpet piece, and art of the survivors.

A very harrowing documentary that includes stories from survivors of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Difficult to understand the comments from the men who'd been involved with the bomb even if I kind of get that for that kind of a thing, you need to numb your mind to it, but over the years you'd expect more insight and regret. Then again, we don't really get more than a few words for them so I felt like we didn't get the full story, but I did find it more important to put focus on the victims.

Hard to rate because it's not brilliant as a film in of itself, but the survivors' stories are, as you would expect, some of the most nightmarish things you've ever heard.

Must see.

One of those "required viewing" sort of movies. Jesus, it's depressing.

Really upsetting documentary. To see and hear such a detailed description of what happened on those days and beyond is just shocking. "There are now enough nuclear weapons in the world to equal 400,000 Hiroshimas' -- fucking hell...

Great documentary on what happened in Japan during the two Nukes of WWII, a must see.

The horrifying inhuman acts that ended World War 2 are made explicit in terrible detail.