Fresh
As a child, I worried about nuclear war. It never occurred to me that I should have been worried about a nuclear accident.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Command and Control
How do you manage weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?
2016 · 1h 32m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Robert Kenner
Overview
September 18, 1980, 6:25 p.m., Titan II base in Damascus, Arkansas. On this fateful night an explosion kills an Air Force member and transforms the lives of everyone on the base. Honing in on a single case of so-called “human error”, Command and Control juxtaposes precision on a minute scale against the gargantuan risks inherent in the United States’ aggressive nuclear proliferation policy during the Cold War.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The inescapable conclusion is that we have more to fear from our own human error than from our enemies' malevolence.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Robert Kenner's documentary is a reminder of how maintaining history's deadliest arsenal can put a nation in its own lethal cross hairs.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
There's an important story to tell here, one about the risks created by the very people and things we employ to keep us secure, but not enough to fill the 92-minute runtime.
Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader
Fresh
A terrifying documentary that'll have your heart racing as fast as any Hollywood thriller, Kenner's film reveals that, due to a range of errors and accidents, we were very close, more than once, to detonating a nuke on our own soil.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
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