ATOMIC PEOPLE

BAFTA AWARDS: SPECIALIST FACTUAL NOMINEE 2025

ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY AWARDS: Best History Documentary, WINNER 2025

ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY CRAFT AWARDS: Best Editing, WINNER 2024

BROADCAST AWARDS: Best Documentary Feature, Nominee 2025

***** ‘A soul-piercing BBC documentary’ THE FINANCIAL TIMES

**** ‘A deeply moving, quietly devastating film’ THE GUARDIAN

***** ‘The most devastating documentary you will watch this year’ THE TELEGRAPH

***** ‘A harrowing and heartbreaking film, but one infused with resilience’ INDEPENDENT

***** ‘90 minutes of quiet heartbreak from director Benedict Sanderson’ THE IRISH INDEPENDENT

‘A most remarkable, moving, and harrowing piece of television’ THE RADIO TIMES

‘An excellent documentary all the more powerful for its sober understatedness’ THE TIMES

‘An incredible documentary’ THE SUN

***** THE DAILY MAIL

FILMED & CO-DIRECTED: BENEDICT SANDERSON

PRODUCED & CO-DIRECTED BY: MEGUMI INMAN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: MORGAN MATTHEWS

COLOURIST: MARTY WEBB, TVC

MINNOW FILMS FOR THE BBC 2024

Landmark 90 minute documentary for the BBC featuring the testimony of fifteen survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945. The ‘Hibakusha’ recount their experience of the day, re-live the devastation that was visited on their city, and reveal how they survived the years that followed.

Available to watch on BBC I-Player