The World At War - The Bomb, February - September 45

Episode in a 26-part documentary series that presents a detailed survey of World War II. Episode 24 - "The Bomb February - September 1945": On 6 August 1945, an American B-29 bomber, called Enola Gay after the name of the mother of the pilot Paul Tibbetts dropped the first uranium bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. Four days afterward a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Includes archival films and testimonies. Narration by the British actor Laurence Olivier.