Atomic People

About Atomic People

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.

Benedict Sanderson and Megumi Inman directed Atomic People, a 2024 documentary history film. Its themes are atomic bomb, nuclear radiation, hiroshima and nagasaki bombings, and hiroshima bombing.

Iwanaga Chiyoko takes the lead as Self, Kiyomi Iguro as Self, John Wayne as Self (archive footage), and Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage). At 90 minutes long, it arrived in June 2024.

In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel and WETA+.

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb, Barefoot Gen, and Twice: The Extraordinary Life of Tsutomu Yamaguchi make useful companions to Atomic People, all filed under world war ii.