Atomic People (2024)
Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb.
- Date of release
- 2024-06-13
- TMDB
- 8.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Director
- Benedict Sanderson, Megumi Inman
Casting
- Iwanaga Chiyoko — Self
- Kiyomi Iguro — Self
- John Wayne — Self (archive footage)
- Adolf Hitler — Self (archive footage)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Self (archive footage)
- Winston Churchill — Self (archive footage)
- Harry S. Truman — Self (archive footage)
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
Atomic People is a 2024 British television film about Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film premiered on BBC Two on 31 July 2024. The programme received critical acclaim for its interviews with survivors and its treatment of nuclear history. It won the British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual at the 2025 British Academy Television Awards. At the 2025 Venice TV Awards, Atomic People won the Special Jury Prize.
Production
Atomic People was commissioned by BBC Two in 2023 as part of a season of programming marking 80 years since World War II’s final year.
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