Hiroshima: Dawn of the Nuclear Age NEW!

history, war

With the most extraordinary set of interviews with key witnesses and survivors of the world’s first atomic bomb. The result was a film which gave a first-hand account of what happened on the 8th of August 1945 – the day the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 

The film, directed by Emmy and BAFTA nominated filmmaker Leslie Woodhead, was RTS nominated and received critical acclaim for its sensitive use of this unique collection of first-hand testimony. 

Today, eleven of the sixteen people interviewed for the film have died. We secured their final testimonies and only used a fraction of 
the material we recorded. Rather than committing this treasure trove of oral history to dusty archives, to mark the 80th anniversary in August 2025 it will be brought to life in a new film which reframes this singular human tragedy from a compelling, contemporary perspective. 

Hiroshima: Dawn of the Nuclear Age explores the moment the bomb dropped as a key fracture in the timeline of human history. The devastation it unleashed represented a distinct loss of innocence – for its visionary creators, for the lives it destroyed and for the world which would now co-exist forever with the potential for its own self-destruction. 

At a time when our fragile peace is threatened more than ever by increasing tensions between our nuclear superpowers, this film offers a prescient re-examination of that fateful day, the key architects behind its creation, and the shockwaves that continue to ripple outwards, 80 years on.