Filmmaker and human rights activist Jason Jones reflects on the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the powerful treatment of those events, along with American wartime racism, in the neglected classic film Little Boy.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, & “Little Boy”
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I was an extra in Little Boy. I will never be the same.