Television Event (2020)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90 minuten
Country:
Australia
Directed by: Jeff Daniels
Stars: Nick Meyer
IMDb score:
7,3 (151)
Releasedate: 11 November 2020
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Television Event plot
In 1983, 100 million people see "The Day After," a TV movie about nuclear war. Those involved look back on the making of the film, the controversies and the effect on politics. Yet Republican President Ronald Reagan is also touched by the film and he screens it in the presidential country residence Camp David. In his diary he writes that the story makes him 'deeply depressed'. After his re-election in 1984, Reagan, possibly influenced by the film, changes his policies and works closely with Soviet leader Gorbachev to curb the nuclear arms race.
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On November 20, 1983, the American family channel ABC broadcast the three-hour television film The Day After, featuring Oscar winner Jason Robards and the then unknown Steve Guttenberg, among others. The broadcast caused quite a stir beforehand and shortly after the broadcast, intellectual and political leaders such as Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, William F. Buckley and Elie Wiesel discussed the implications of this film in a special broadcast of the opinion program 'Viewpoint', presented by anchorman Ted Koppel. Director Nicholas Meyer, screenwriter Edward Hume, producer Bob Papazian and Ellen Anthony, who played an important role in the film as an eleven-year-old, look back on the making of this film about the consequences of a nuclear attack on ordinary Americans, as well as the impact that it had on their lives. Conventional documentary about a threat that has revived considerably in recent years. It also provides insight into the way in which television films were made at the time. It helps if you've seen The Day After. If not, then you can count on seeing it after the end of this film.
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