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  • Mar 12, 2024
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Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War

Summary The nine-part documentary series directed by Brian Knappenberger about nuclear weapons and the Cold War features interviews with atomic bomb survivors, as well as current and former world and political leaders.

Directed By: Brian Knappenberger

  • Netflix
  • Mar 12, 2024
  • 1 h 7 m
  • Netflix
  • Mar 12, 2024
  • 1 h 7 m
Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War
S1 • Episode 3
Institutional Insanity
Air Date: Mar 12, 2024
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Summary The nine-part documentary series directed by Brian Knappenberger about nuclear weapons and the Cold War features interviews with atomic bomb survivors, as well as current and former world and political leaders.

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 19 m
The Sun Came Up Tremendous
During World War Il, the US begins to work on a top-secret project that results in the atomic bombings on Japan - and a global conflict lasting decades.
Episode 2 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 4 m
Poisoning the Soil
As communism takes off in Russia and China, Joseph Stalin begins his ruthless reign and the Soviet Union enters an era of terror.
Episode 3 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 7 m
Institutional Insanity
Preparing for war against the Soviet Union, the US starts to test thermonuclear weapons. The CIA forms and interferes with global politics.
Episode 4 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 6 m
The Wall
The US and Soviet Union get caught in a nuclear arms race. A wall divides Berlin. John F. Kennedy looks for a peaceful solution after a crisis in Cuba.
Episode 5 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 7 m
War Games
With both sides planning for the worst-case scenario, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev find common ground. Tragedy strikes after a nuclear disaster.
Episode 6 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 7 m
Empire Is Untenable
The USSR's grasp on Eastern Europe weakens as the Berlin Wall comes down and the Communist Party mounts a coup against a prominent Soviet Union leader.
Episode 7 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 7 m
The End of History
A new Russian leader emerges, and the republics seek independence. As the Soviet Union dissolves, several powers sign a landmark treaty on nuclear arms.
Episode 8 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 4 m
Moscow Will Not Be Silent
Russia struggles to find a national identity as Vladimir Putin comes to power. With the Cold War in the rearview, a war on terror begins.
Episode 9 • Mar 12, 2024 • 1 h 12 m
We Are Not Dead Yet
Russia invades Georgia and Ukraine, putting Putin under intense scrutiny. While disinformation thrives, threats of nuclear war persist.

Top Cast

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Mary Sarotte

Self - Author, Not One Inch, Self - Author, The Collapse

Garrett Graff

Self - Author, Raven Rock

Robert Gates

Self - Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1991 - 1993, Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001, Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2011

Tom Nichols

Self - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College

Serhii Plokhii

Self - Author, Atoms and Ashes, Self - Author, The Last Empire, Self - The Russo-Ukrainian War

Tom Z. Collina

Self - Co-Author, The Button, Self - Author, The Botton, Self - Author, The Button: The Nuclear Arms Race

David Remnick

Self - Editor, The New Yorker

Susan Glasser

Self - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising, Self - Author, Kremlin Rising

Tim Naftali

Self - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University

Tim Weiner

Self - Author, Legacy of Ashes, Self - Author, The Folly and the Fury, Self - Author, The Folly and the Glory

Fiona Hill

Self - National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs 2017 - 2019, Self - U.S. National Security Council 2017 - 2019

Masha Lipman

Self - Russian Journalist

Pavel Palazchenko

Self - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev

Audra J. Wolfe

Self - Author, Freedom's Laboratory

Condoleezza Rice

Self - National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs 1989 - 1991, Self - U.S. Secretary of State 2005 - 2009, Self - National Security Advisor 2001 - 2005

Anne Applebaum

Self - Author, Gulag, Self - Author, Iron Curtain, Self - Author, Red Famine, Self - Author, The Twilight of Democracy, Self - Author, Twilight of Democracy

Rose Gottemoeller

Self - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019, Self - Under Secretary of State 2015

Giorgi Kandelaki

Self - Georgian Politician & Historian, Self - Georgian Politician and Historian

Kaja Kallas

Self - Prime Minister of Estonia

Roderic Lyne

Self - U.K. Ambassador to Russia 2000 - 2004

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