hiroshima-shi (japan)

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima by the name of Sadako races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. After her death, Sadako's classmates campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue in memory of Sadako and the other children who were victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Details the events and aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, based on eyewitness accounts from survivors like Tsutomu Tamaguchi, who survived ground zero in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

World War II combat soldier-turned-peace activist Howard Zinn discusses the moral and ethical issues posed by war. Challenges official U.S. military history and includes personal perspectives.

Lauren Cooper's devotion to her older brother Henry is shattered after a sudden tragedy, and she struggles to understand the person he has become and the impact his disease has had on her own life.

Discusses the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan by telling the stories of the key Americans and Japanese in the drama.

Chronicles the life of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl who, after the bombing of Hiroshima, turned the paper crane into a symbol of peace, before dying of A-bomb disease at age twelve.