Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War is a 2024 American nine-part docuseries created for Netflix and directed by Brian Knappenberger.[1] It was released on March 12, 2024.[2]
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Genre | Docu-series |
Directed by | Brian Knappenberger |
Composer | John Dragonetti |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 9 |
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Producers |
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Cinematography | Jay Visit Kassim Olivier Ahmed |
Editors |
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Running time | 60-67 minutes |
Production company | Luminant Media |
Original release | |
Network | Netflix |
Release | March 12, 2024 |
Interviews edit
- Tom Nichols, professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College
- Garrett Graff, author of Raven Rock
- Mary Elise Sarotte, author of Not One Inch
- Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of Defense (2006-2011)
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine
- Giorgi Kandelaki, Georgian politician and historian
- Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster
- Pavel Palazhchenko, interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev
- Rose Gottemoeller, NATO Deputy Secretary General (2016-2019)
- Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia
- Timothy Naftali, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University
- Audra J. Wolfe, author of Freedom's Laboratory
- Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow
- Serhii Plokhy, author of Atoms and Ashes
- Tom Z. Collina, co-author of The Button
- Sam Nunn, co-founder of Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Lesley M. M. Blume, author of Fallout
- Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Gregg Herken, author of Brotherhood of the Bomb
- Akira Yamada, professor of History at Meiji University
- Alex Wellerstein, author of Restricted Data
- J. Samuel Walker, author of Prompt and Utter Destruction
- David Holloway, author of Stalin and the Bomb
- Kazuhiko Togo, grandson of Shigenori Tōgō
- Ukeru Magosaki, head of Japan's Intelligence and Analysis Bureau (1997-1999)
- Howard Kakita, Japanese-American
- Gar Alperovitz, author of Atomic Diplomacy
- Keiko Ogura, Hiroshima resident
- Kunihiko Iida, Hiroshima resident
- Teruko Yahata, Hiroshima resident
- Kingo Kawahara, Hiroshima resident
- Masaaki Takano, Hiroshima resident
- James L. Nolan Jr., author of Atomic Doctors
- Kathleen Bailey, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1985-1987)
- Susan Glasser, author of Kremlin Rising
- Arkady Ostrovsky, author of The Invention of Russia
- Masha Lipman, Russian journalist
- Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Maxim Litvinov
- Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine
- Nina Khrushcheva, professor of International Affairs at The New School
- Scott Anderson, author of The Quiet Americans
- Timothy Garton Ash, author of Homelands
- Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO
- Miles Yu, professor of East Asia Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy
- Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- Becky Jenkins, daughter of American communists
- Lori Clune, author of Executing the Rosenbergs
- Donald Ritchie, Senate Historian Emeritus
- Howard Rodman, Governor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Lee Grant, actress
- Larry Tye, author of Demagogue
- Daniel Ellsberg, anti-nuclear activist and whistleblower
- Sergii Solodchenko, volunteer in the battle of Hostomel
- General Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine intelligence
- Neisen Laukon (voice), citizen of the Marshall Islands
- Terumi Tanaka, Nagasaki survivor
- Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes
- Peter Sichel, OSS officer (1942-1947)
- Milton Bearden, CIA, clandestine services (1964-1994)
- Ervand Abrahamian, author of The Coup
- David Remnick, editor at The New Yorker
- Peter Kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project
- Andy Weber, U.S. Threat Reduction Policy Advisor
- Joachim Neumann, East German resident
- Horst Teltschik , West German National Security Advisor
- Brian Latell, CIA Officer
- Rafael Montalvo, Cuban exile
- Ada Ferrer, author of Cuba: An American History
- Humberto Arguelles, Cuban exile
- Bill Ober, U.S. Marine
- German Galushchenko, Minister of Energy of Ukraine
- Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania
- Elisabeth Eaves, contributing editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Brian Morra, U.S. Military Intelligence Officer (1979-1994)
- Wolfgang Ischinger, assistant to West German Foreign Minister (1982-1990)
- Roderic Lyne, U.K. Ambassador to Russia (2000-2004)
- Fiona Hill, National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs (2017-2019)
- Nicholas Meyer, director of The Day After
- Jack Matlock, Soviet specialist in the National Security Council (1983-1986)
- Archie Brown, author of The Human Factor
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, child in neighboring Belarus in 1986
- Condoleezza Rice, National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs (1989-1991)
- Olga Rudenko, editor-in-chief at the Kyiv Independent
- Oleksiy Sorokin, journalist at the Kyiv Independent
- Arnold Sinisalu, Director General of the Estonian Internal Security Service
- Mark Pomar, author of Cold War Radio
- Joe Detrani, CIA Chief of East Asia Operations (1984-1986)
- Wang Dan, student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests
- Hans Schulze, former Stasi prisoner
- Gabi Sajonz, East German resident
- Siegbert Schefke , East German undercover journalist
- Daniel Biskup , West German photographer
- Rolf-Michael Turek , Leipzig pastor
- Wolfgang Schäuble, West German Federal Minister of the Interior
- Michael McFaul, U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2012-2014)
- Vytautas Landsbergis, co-founder of Lithuanian Reform Movement
- Algirdas Kaušpėdas, director of Lithuanian national television (1990-1992)
- Dr. Ricardas Daunoravicius, Lithuanian activist
- William Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2006-2009)
- Jim Lawler, CIA Operations Officer (1980-2005)
- Ekaterina Kotrikadze, news anchor of the TV Rain
- Mikhail Zygar, founding editor-in-chief of the TV Rain
- Bill Browder, author of Red Notice
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman
- Andrei Soldatov, Russian investigative journalist
- Simon Ostrovsky, Russian-American journalist
- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)
- Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine (2005-2010)
- Vladimir Ashurkov, Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation
- Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania
- Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine's National Defense and Security Council
- Illia Ponomarenko, Ukrainian journalist
Reception edit
Dan Einav of The Financial Times states, "Unlike Oppenheimer, the series looks beyond those who actively shaped seismic events to those helplessly caught in history."[3]
Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph calls it, "a nine-part documentary series about the Cold War uses Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film as a convenient springboard."[4]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Vognar, Chris (2024-03-12). "New Netflix Doc Asks If Putin Restarted the Cold War -- Or If It Ever Ended in the First Place". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War Documentary Considers The Ongoing Impact of the U.S.-Soviet Conflict". Netflix Tudum. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ Einav, Dan. "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War — new Netflix documentary takes the baton from Oppenheimer". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ Power, Ed (2024-03-12). "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, review: watched Oppenheimer? Now absorb the facts". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2024-03-16.