Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War
Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War | |
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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 |
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Running time | 60-67 minutes |
Production company | Luminant Media |
Original release | |
Network | Netflix |
Release | March 12, 2024 |
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]
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.