The film in 1981 was nominated for the Gold Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival in the USA.
This Australian documentary film '''...was never shown on Australian TV because it was too controversial'' according to the Australian War Memorial's website.
Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett was the first journalist from the western world to visit Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic bomb had been dropped there.
The film won the Christopher Statuette at the Columbus Film Festival in Ohio, USA.
The film won the Best Documentary award at the Sydney Film Festival in 1981.