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Hiroshima Beirut, is a 2021 Lebanese movie, directed by Mohamad Khatib. with a runtime of 25 minutes.
Hiroshima Beirut is a documentary film chronicling the catastrophic explosion that tore through Beirut's main port on August 4, 2020 — when approximately 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in what would be declared the sixth-largest non-nuclear blast in recorded history. Over 200 people were killed and thousands more were wounded in a single devastating moment that shook a nation already deep in political and social crisis. The film draws a resonant parallel with Hiroshima to frame the scale of destruction, offering a historical and humanitarian account of one of the most traumatic events in modern Lebanese history for audiences seeking to understand the full magnitude of the Beirut explosion.
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