One year after Japan's 2011 tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, this BBC film gives voice to the 7-to-10-year-old survivors whose lives were upended, at a school where 74 classmates were killed and another close to the exclusion zone.
▶ Rent/Buy on Prime Video 🔍 Find more docsLetting children narrate their own trauma is a risky choice, but it pays off here: their matter-of-fact recollections, delivered without adult framing, land harder than a more conventional survivor-interview structure would.
If Children of the Tsunami's child's-eye perspective affected you, Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake and Death Without Mercy cover disasters with a similar focus on ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances.
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| Australia | ✅ | Prime Video (Rent/Buy) |
| United States | ✅ | Prime Video (Rent/Buy) |
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| Canada | ✅ | Prime Video (Rent/Buy) |
| Ireland | ✅ | Prime Video (Rent/Buy) |
