''Hiroshima Witness'', also released as ''Voice of Hibakusha'', is a
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
featuring 100 interviews of people who survived the
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the onl ...
, also known as
hibakusha.
[ ] ''Hiroshima Witness'' was produced in 1986 by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and
NHK, the public broadcasting company of Japan.
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References
External links
Recorded Testimony of A-bomb Survivors
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links about witness
1986 films
Japanese documentary films
Documentary films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Films set in Hiroshima
Films shot in Hiroshima
1986 documentary films
NHK
1980s Japanese films
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