Watch First Clip from My New "Atomic Bowl" Film
Football in Nagasaki--and the lessons and warnings for today.
Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including “Hiroshima in America” (with Robert Jay Lifton),“Atomic Cover-up,” and “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” He has directed documentary films since 2021, including three for PBS (one of them the award-winning “Atomic Cover-up”). You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free.
Greetings. Been quiet here for a few weeks after a full year of dozens of posts. And will be more active again going forward.
Want to just quickly let you know that I've just completed my fourth documentary film as writer/director in the past four years, “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero & The Forgotten Bomb.”
Trailer for the new film is just out, with narration by Peter Coyote, produced by my longtime partner Lyn Goldfarb. Bill Geerhart played a key role as advisor/researcher/associate producer. Without further ado, you can watch it below and then, if you have special interest, you can comment or feel free to send me a message/query. We’ve just started sending it to key film festivals this week and not certain yet about a PBS airing (but PBS did carry my three previous films).
Here’s a brief blurb on the film, I will be posting much more in a few days. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions or requests.
"A riveting film, and the topic couldn't be more urgent." -- David Sterritt, leading film reviewer since 1970s and former chair, National Society of Film Critics,
A timely new documentary by an award-winning writer/director on the disturbing and long-forgotten 1946 U.S. military all-star game in Nagasaki where 80,000 non-combatants had perished just weeks earlier--and the vital lessons and warnings for today as nuclear dangers proliferate and civilian casualties in today’s wars soar.
Mitchell's three recent films were all aired via PBS and two received Emmy nominations. One of them, "Atomic Cover-up," won the top film prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in 2024 and three other awards.
