Atomic Cover-Up
(2023, original release: 2021)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
Video Project, 2021
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
14537279
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

Explores the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the unique perspective of the camera crews who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. Initially started by a Japanese newsreel crew, and then continued under the supervision of the US Army, this documentary reveals how their footage was seized, classified top secret, and then buried by American officials for decades in order to hide the full human cost of the bombings as a costly nuclear arms race began

Film

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Originally produced by Video Project in 2021

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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