The Day They Dropped The Bomb Documentary Analysis

The documentary, The Day They Dropped the Bomb, by ITV is a 2015 documentary based on the bombing in Hiroshima and how this impacted World War II. It is a story told from multiple people who were there on the day, from the Americans who were a part of the mission, to the Japanese who were in Hiroshima, the day they dropped the bomb. Another crucial part of World War II was the holocaust, in which Nazi Germans murdered approximately two thirds of the European Jewish population. Surviving The Holocaust: Freddie Knoller’s War, by BBC is another 2015 documentary of one of the survivors of this tragedy and his view on those tragic years. In an interview, Freddie Knoller narrates the story of the war from start to finish and the steps he took to survive these times. Both documentaries present archival and actuality footage, as …show more content…
It displays the bombs being loaded, the men preparing for the mission, and the name of the plane that was holding the bomb, ‘Enola Gay’. While this plays, the narrator, Dominic West, talks over the top providing information on the event including date, time, location and instant death count. It then cuts to the navigator of the Enola Gay, Dutch Van Kirk, who describes how he felt, and what he thought, when they were in the plane. Similarly, Surviving The Holocaust: Freddie Knoller’s War, begins with archival images and videos of concentration camps as well as the Jewish men, women and children. This is the only time where a narrator is heard. Tamsin Greig speaks over the archival footage, just like Dominic West, describing the holocaust. What is different about the exposition of these two documentaries, is that Surviving the Holocaust jumps to actuality footage of the subject of the documentary, Freddie Knoller sitting at a cafe in France, receiving a drink, which foreshadows the importance of the location in the recount of his