I am really looking forward to watching your film when it’s available here in Germany. - even though, I know it will be brutal and ‚looking forward‘ to something implies enjoying it. Germany has a lot of problems, and is also facing a rise in open right wing assholery, but one thing I have admired is the non-flinching acceptance of their nazi past. Something we could learn from..
Very cool to see the original Mad Dogs and Englishmen Choir together with the Tedeschi Trucks Background Singers creating a wall of sound behind that amazing Susan Tedeschi vocal.
My great-grandparents were stationed at Pearl Harbor when it was hit. I've watched as government archives of my great-grandfather's service aboard the USS Enterprise were scrubbed of anything conceivably related to DEI over the past few months. The footage you shared felt like a gift. WWII with the Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, and more weren't fought and won by just white men from America. I was pleased to see minorities in your film who assisted.
Of course, the subject was devastating. I was unaware that Truman hadn't approved the attack on Nagasaki. Dedicating the film to the children who attended the schools you listed was powerful - excellent call.
It's a timely reminder of how we've tripped the wire to complete indifference and tolerance of inhumanity before. I worry that we're headed in the same direction now.
Knowledge is power. I understand why this gratuitous and callous action is still downplayed and trivialized. The mosaic of personal impressions from scientists, troops, athletes, and project managers is powerful and revealing. A compelling argument for revisiting nuclear disarmament.
Just watch your film. Thank you for bringing this story and its importance to light. I had read Hersey’s book on Hiroshima many years ago and today I realized that Nagasaki had been left to the side in my own consideration of the horrors of our attack on Japan. You are so right that it says something really disturbing about us. I will be looking to watch it again, as there is just so much to take in.
I love this version of "The Letter!" It's the best ever and brings back memories of when the original came out in the 60s. I was a freshman in college in Tennessee, and my boyfriend was attending Northwestern. With cell phones not even being dreamed of in those days, pay phones and Ma Bell long-distance rates were far more than students could afford very often. Thus, those romantic letters, usually longingly penned every day, had the greatest importance. Aw, yes, my baby wrote me a letter!
Loved the Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell video.
We will check out the film.
I am really looking forward to watching your film when it’s available here in Germany. - even though, I know it will be brutal and ‚looking forward‘ to something implies enjoying it. Germany has a lot of problems, and is also facing a rise in open right wing assholery, but one thing I have admired is the non-flinching acceptance of their nazi past. Something we could learn from..
Very cool to see the original Mad Dogs and Englishmen Choir together with the Tedeschi Trucks Background Singers creating a wall of sound behind that amazing Susan Tedeschi vocal.
LOCK'N Festival 2015
Love Leon Russell! Congratulations on your film!
Thanks for making and sharing the film.
My great-grandparents were stationed at Pearl Harbor when it was hit. I've watched as government archives of my great-grandfather's service aboard the USS Enterprise were scrubbed of anything conceivably related to DEI over the past few months. The footage you shared felt like a gift. WWII with the Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, and more weren't fought and won by just white men from America. I was pleased to see minorities in your film who assisted.
Of course, the subject was devastating. I was unaware that Truman hadn't approved the attack on Nagasaki. Dedicating the film to the children who attended the schools you listed was powerful - excellent call.
It's a timely reminder of how we've tripped the wire to complete indifference and tolerance of inhumanity before. I worry that we're headed in the same direction now.
Again, thank you. Well done.
Knowledge is power. I understand why this gratuitous and callous action is still downplayed and trivialized. The mosaic of personal impressions from scientists, troops, athletes, and project managers is powerful and revealing. A compelling argument for revisiting nuclear disarmament.
Just watch your film. Thank you for bringing this story and its importance to light. I had read Hersey’s book on Hiroshima many years ago and today I realized that Nagasaki had been left to the side in my own consideration of the horrors of our attack on Japan. You are so right that it says something really disturbing about us. I will be looking to watch it again, as there is just so much to take in.
I love this version of "The Letter!" It's the best ever and brings back memories of when the original came out in the 60s. I was a freshman in college in Tennessee, and my boyfriend was attending Northwestern. With cell phones not even being dreamed of in those days, pay phones and Ma Bell long-distance rates were far more than students could afford very often. Thus, those romantic letters, usually longingly penned every day, had the greatest importance. Aw, yes, my baby wrote me a letter!
Congratulations and thank you for The Atomic Bowl documentary. I look forward to watching it.
Excellent work on this heretofore untold story of Nagasaki. Thanks to you and your team for doing this.