Countdown to zero [videorecording] / Nuclear Disarmament Documentary, LLC ; Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media present ; in association with World Security Institute and the History Channel ; a Lawrence Bender Production ; written and directed by Lucy Walker.
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FilmPublisher number: 10354 | Magnolia Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: Los Angeles, CA : Magnolia Home Entertainment, c2010.Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. w/ b&w seq. ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Countdown to 0 [Other title]
- Editors, Brad Fuller, Brian Johnson ; music, Peter Golub ; cinematography, Robert Chappell, Gary Clarke, Bryan Donnell, Nick Higgins.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Conventional wisdom has it that the prospect of nuclear war subsided with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, but filmmaker Lucy Walker illustrates how the nuclear threat has only grown in unexpected ways and moved in new directions in this documentary. There are 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world today, a number of which are unaccounted for (when the USSR split into a handful of separate states, some of their bombs went missing), and as the technology becomes simpler, several major radical terrorist groups and politically unstable nations are trying to obtain nuclear weapons, a prospect that isn't as unlikely as one would hope. And what would happen if the wrong people got their hands on the bomb -- or if some of the "good" people were to detonate one through error or mistaken judgment? In Countdown to Zero, a number of leading politicians and political analysts -- including Jimmy Carter, Tony Blair, Valerie Plame Wilson, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Zbigniew Brzezinski -- discuss the question of nuclear war in the 21st century and what can be done to eliminate the weapons once and for all. Featuring narration by Gary Oldman and music by Pearl Jam, Countdown to Zero received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Special features include: Deleted scenes (ca. 10 min. total) ; additional interviews (ca. 41 min.) ; archival footage (ca. 65 min.) ; Ploughshares Fund PSA.
Editors, Brad Fuller, Brian Johnson ; music, Peter Golub ; cinematography, Robert Chappell, Gary Clarke, Bryan Donnell, Nick Higgins.
Featuring Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf, James Baker III, Tony Blair, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert McNamara.
"[The film] traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possessing nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, leaving the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident." -- Container.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD ; NTSC, Region 1 ; Dolby Digital 2.0 or 5.1 audio.
English dialogue ; optional Spanish subtitles ; Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.