More or less a straightforward factual telling of the bombing of Hiroshima, by Emmy award-winning director David Lowell Rich. The production is top-heavy with actors who have since become household names through TV series: Patrick Duffy (Dallas), Billy Crystal (Soap), Gregory Harrison (Logan's Run), Robert Pine (CHiPS), Robert Walden (Lou Grant). But only Crystal, together with Walter Olkewicz, gets a chance to flesh out his character to any great extent. Maurice Jarre's stirring military score coupled with original newsreel footage adds to the period feel. The film (original US title: Enola Gay: the Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb) is dedicated to veteran writer James Poe, who died while working on the project.

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