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In 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the movies a "necessary and beneficial part of the war effort." Movies were a part of life for the thousands of Manhattan Project workers and their families in the secret cities of Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge. Explore several short films below that tell the story of the Manhattan Project through the lens of those who were affected by the top-secret war effort. 

 

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  Sadako's Origami Cranes—A Message of Peace

  Two-year old Sadako Sasaki was at home in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb over her city. Sadako survived the bombing of Hiroshima but passed away ten years later from leukemia. Japanese folklore says that a crane can live for a thousand years, and a person who folds an origami crane for each year of a crane’s life will have their wish granted. Sadako folded 1,300 origami cranes shortly before her death in 1955.

  Duration:

  10 minutes, 19 seconds

 

 

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  Hanford Made

  Hanford Made: Profound Choices, Complex Problems, and Lasting Legacies of Plutonium Production during the Manhattan Project.

  Duration:

  14 minutes, 26 seconds

 

 

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  A Day's Pay

  Manhattan Project B Reactor - Hanford, Washington

  Duration:

  2 minutes, 11 seconds

 

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  Faith & Family

  Oak Ridge, Tennessee

  Duration:

  2 minutes, 33 seconds

 

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  Calutron Girls

  Manhattan Project - Oak Ridge, Tennessee

  Duration:

  2 minutes, 20 seconds

 

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  The Gathering Place

  Manhattan Project - Los Alamos, New Mexico

  Duration:

  3 minutes