Paul Tibbets

Paul Tibbets

Born: February 23, 1915
Died: November 1, 2007
in Quincy, Illinois, U.S.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Movies for Paul Tibbets...

A Compassionate Spy
Title: A Compassionate Spy
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Title: Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
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Death in Focus
Title: Death in Focus
Character: Pilot & aircraft commander
Released: January 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Death in all it's faces and stages. From the horrors of Buchenwald to the devastation of Hiroshima. From the political assassinations of the second half of the 20th century to the bloody feeding frenzy of the pythons of Burma. Burned on to the screen like napalm victims of Vietnam. Followed by "Death in Focus" part 2.
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The Atomic Cafe
Title: The Atomic Cafe
Character: archival footage
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.