ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA DOCUMENTARY "TEN SECONDS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD" 75794

by **Akram Tahseen** Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:01 pm

Narrated by Richard Baseheart and produced by David L. Wolper, TEN SECONDS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD is a factual and chronological account of the events preceding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II and the significant effect of the atomic bomb on peacetime projects and events of the atomic age. It features all the major players in the birth of the atomic age from Marie Curie to Albert Einstein to Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, President Truman, and more.

The film was criticized for sanitizing the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and the fact that it ignores the second bombing at Nagasaki altogether.

David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010) was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series including Biography (1961–63), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This is Elvis, Four Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, Visions of Eight (1973), and others. Wolper directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film (as executive producer) about the study of insects, The Hellstrom Chronicle, won an Academy Award.

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