Introduction War Games (Gry wojenne) is a 2008 Polish documentary film about Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski by director Dariusz Jablonski. Outline A story about Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a talented strategist who became not only privy to the most heavily guarded strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact in the 1970s, but in fact drew up those plans… Read More
Introduction Testament is a 1983 drama film based on a three-page story titled “The Last Testament” by Carol Amen (1934-1987), directed by Lynne Littman and written by John Sacret Young. The film tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys… Read More
Introduction Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on 14 October 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.… Read More
Introduction When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs’ comic book of the same name. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters and was scored by Roger Waters. The film accounts a rural English couple’s… Read More
Introduction World War III is a 1998 German alternative history television pseudo-film/documentary, directed by Robert Stone and distributed by ZDF. it is also known as Der 3. Weltkrieg, Der Dritte Weltkrieg, and WW III: World War III. An English version, in collaboration with TLC, was made as well and aired in May 1999. It depicts… Read More
Introduction Part of the BBC’s This World series, World War Three: Inside the War Room is a 2016 documentary on a hypothetical nuclear confrontation in Eastern Europe. Outline Following the crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria, the world is closer to superpower confrontation than at any time since the end of the Cold… Read More
Introduction Command and Control is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and based on the 2013 non-fiction book of the same name by Eric Schlosser. It was released initially in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival and then in the United Kingdom at the Sheffield Doc/Fest on 11 June 2016.… Read More
Introduction 2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and, ostensibly, the end of the Cold War. Outline In light of this, Rich Hall embarks on an examination of the relationship between the West and the East, America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In his unique way, Rich looks… Read More
Introduction In 1957, Britain exploded its first megaton hydrogen bomb – code named Operation Grapple X. Outline It was the culmination of an extraordinary scientific project, which against almost insuperable odds turned Britain into a nuclear superpower. This is the inside story of how Britain got ‘the bomb’. The BBC has been granted unprecedented access… Read More
Introduction ‘The bottom line is, there shouldn’t be nuclear in our world’. On his 91st birthday, Tsutomu Yamaguchi said when asked about current nuclear power. Outline He is a survivor of not one, but two atomic blasts at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While he has no physical scars from the attacks, his emotional scars run… Read More
