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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024)★ 8.4/10

TV-14 · US · 60 min · March 12, 2024 · 1 seasons

  • Documentary

Directed by: Brian Knappenberger

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.

Directed by

Brian Knappenberger

Cast & crew

Aylam OrianVladimir PutinMary SarotteSelf - Author, Not One InchGarrett GraffSelf - Author, Raven RockRobert GatesSelf - Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1991 - 1993Tom NicholsSelf - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War CollegeSerhii PlokhySelf - Author, Atoms and AshesTom Z. CollinaSelf - Co-Author, The ButtonDavid RemnickSelf - Editor, The New YorkerSusan GlasserSelf - Co-Author, Kremlin RisingTim NaftaliSelf - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia UniversityTim WeinerSelf - Author, Legacy of AshesFiona HillSelf - National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs 2017 - 2019Masha LipmanSelf - Russian JournalistPavel PalazchenkoSelf - Interpreter for Mikhail GorbachevAudra J. WolfeSelf - Author, Freedom's LaboratoryCondoleezza RiceSelf - National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs 1989 - 1991Anne ApplebaumSelf - Author, GulagRose GottemoellerSelf - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019Giorgi KandelakiSelf - Georgian Politician & HistorianKaja KallasSelf - Prime Minister of EstoniaRoderic LyneSelf - U.K. Ambassador to Russia 2000 - 2004Timothy Garton AshSelf - Author, HomelandsAlex WellersteinSelf - Author, Restricted DataDavid HollowaySelf - Author, Soviet Union and the Arms RaceMichael McFaulSelf - U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2012 - 2014Volodymyr ZelenskyySelf - President of UkraineScott AndersonSelf - Author, The Quiet AmericansSam NunnSelf - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat InitiativeArkady OstrovskySelf - Author, The Invention of RussiaNina Lvovna KhrushchevaSelf - Professor of International Affairs, The New SchoolWilliam TaylorSelf - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine 2006 - 2009Gregg HerkenSelf - Author, Brotherhood of the BombDaniel EllsbergSelf - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964Stephen KinzerSelf - Author, OverthrowJack F. Matlock Jr.Self - U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1987 - 1991Archie BrownSelf - Author, The Human FactorKathleen BaileySelf - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1985 - 1987Wolfgang IschingerSelf - Assistant to West Germany Foreign Minister 1982 - 1990Horst TeltschikSelf - West German National Security Advisor 1982 - 1990Bill BrowderSelf - Author, Freezing OrderEkaterina KotrikadzeSelfGabrielius LandsbergisSelf - Minister of Foreign Affairs, LithuaniaMikhail ZygarSelf - Founding Editor-in-Chief, TV RainAndy WeberSelf - U.S. Foreign Service Officer 1985 - 1996Olga RudenkoSelf - Editor-in-Chief, Kyiv IndependentJoachim NeumannSelf - East German DissidentSimon OstrovskySelf - Russian-American JournalistAndrei SoldatovSelf - Russian Investigative JournalistOleksiy SorokinSelf - Deputy Chief Editor, Kyiv IndependentViktor YushchenkoSelf - Candidate, 2004 Ukraine Presidential ElectionLori CluneSelf - Author, Executing the RosenbergsPavel LitvinovSelf - Grandson of Maxim LitvinovRichard RhodesSelf - Author, Arsenals of FollyJens StoltenbergSelf - Secretary General of NATOPeter KornbluhSelf - Director Cuba Documentation ProjectAlgirdas KauspedasSelf - Director of Lithuanian National Television 1990 - 1992Elisabeth EavesSelf - Contributing Editor, Bulletin of Atomic ScientistsSiegbert SchefkeSelf - East German Undercover JournalistGabi SajonzSelf - East German ResidentHoward KakitaSelf - Hiroshima SurvivorKunihiko IidaSelf - Hiroshima ResidentTeruko YahataSelf - Hiroshima ResidentClaudia ZieGaby SayonzGerman GalushchenkoSelf - Minister of Energy, UkraineRitaSelf - Ukrainian CitizenGarry KasparovSelf - Russian Chess GrandmasterMikhail KhodorkovskySelf - Russian BusinessmanVytautas LandsbergisSelf - Co-Founder of Lithuanian Reform MovementArnold SinisaluSelf - Director General, Estonian Internal Security ServiceMark PomarSelf - Author, Cold War RadioBrian MorraSelf - U.S. Military Intelligence Officer 1979 - 1994Ricardas DaunoraviciusSelf - Lithuanian ActivistTerumi TanakaSelf - Nagasaki Survivor, Anti-Nuclear AdvocatePeter SichelSelf - OSS Officer 1942 - 1947Milton BeardenSelf - CIA, Clandestine Services 1964 - 1994Vladimir AshurkovSelf - Executive Director, Anti-Corruption FoundationNicholas MeyerSelf - Director, The Day AfterLesley M.M. BlumeSelf - Author, FalloutTony BlairSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1997 - 2007Ervand AbrahamianSelf - Author, The CoupJoe DetraniSelf - CIA Chief of East Asia Operations 1984 - 1986Jim LawlerSelf - Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency 1980 - 2005Brian LatellSelf - CIA Officer 1962 - 1990Miles YuSelf - Professor of East Asia Military History, U.S. Naval AcademyWang DanSelf - Student Leader, Tiananmen Square ProtestsHans SchulzeSelf - Former Stasi PrisonerAkira YamadaSelf - Professor of History, Meiji UniversityRafael MontalvoSelf - Cuban ExileAda FerrerSelf - Author, Cuba: An American HistoryJ. Samuel WalkerSelf - Author, Prompt and Utter DestructionHumberto ArguellesSelf - Cuban ExileRobert MeeropolSelf - Son of Ethel & Julius RosenbergBill OberSelf - U.S. Marine 1962 - 1968Kazuhiko TogoSelf - Grandson of Shigenori TôgôBecky JenkinsSelf - Daughter of American CommunistsSvetlana TikhanovskayaSelf - Child in Neighboring Belarus in 1986Daniel BiskupSelf - West German PhotographerUkeru MagosakiSelf - Head of Japan's Intelligence & Analysis Bureau 1997 - 1999Donald RitchieSelf - Senate Historian EmeritusRolf-Michael TurekSelf - Leipzig Pastor 1984 - 1997Howard A. RodmanSelf - Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & SciencesGitanas NausedaSelf - President of LithuaniaGar AlperovitzSelf - Author, Atomic DiplomacyLee GrantSelf - ActressOleksiy DanilovSelf - Secretary of Ukraine's National Defense and Security CouncilKeiko OguraSelf - Hiroshima ResidentKyrylo BudanovSelf - Ukraine IntelligenceLarry TyeSelf - Author, DemagogueIllia PonomarenkoSelf - Ukrainian JournalistKingo KawaharaSelf - Hiroshima ResidentMasaaki TakanoSelf - Hiroshima ResidentJames L. Nolan Jr.Self - Author, Atomic DoctorsFumio KishidaSelf - Prime Minister of JapanAlex BudinOleksiy Danilov