Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War
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Mar 12, 2024
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Mar 12, 2024
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Turning Point is a mighty feat of historical documentary storytelling. Directed by Brian Knappenberger, who also helmed Netflix’s Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror, the series combines the veracity and thoroughness of a Frontline installment with the style (and, by all appearances, the budget) of a major documentary release.
Mar 12, 2024
80
Unlike his treatise on 9/11 and the War On Terror, Knappenberger has done a good job of contextualizing just how the nuclear arms race got started. The first episode of this docuseries is almost 80 minutes long, but it’s riveting because it doesn’t just recite the history you might have learned in class or while watching countless History Channel docuseries on World War II.
Mar 12, 2024
60
Talking head follows talking head, accompanied by reams of archive footage. It’s never dull – but goodness does it feel like documentary-making on autopilot.
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Jun 27, 2024
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One of the best documentaries, gives it much from everything that happened. I trully, enjoy this one.
Aug 3, 2024
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As always Netflix excels with its documentary output and next in line is 'Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War'.SYNOPSIS: 'The series chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb and the spread of nuclear arms over the following decades. It continues past the dissolution of the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin's ascent and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.'Where was this documentary when I did my A Level history on the Cold War? The detail here would've certainly made my life a lot easier.Looking back it's clear that in the modern world we've not learnt our lessons and we still sit one step from **** harrowing details here aren't going to make you feel better about the fate of the world, but it does an exceptional job of showing just how close we were historically to nuclear **** documentary does lose its way a bit as we near modern day but what's gone before absolutely covers for this.Exceptional.8/10
