Command and Control (film)

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Command and Control
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert Kenner
Screenplay byRobert Kenner
Eric Schlosser
Based on Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by Eric Schlosser
Produced byRobert Kenner
Melissa Robledo
Mark Samels
Eric Schlosser
CinematographyPaul Goldsmith
Jay Redmond [1]
Edited by Kim Roberts
Music byMark Adler
Release date
  • April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Command and Control is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Robert Kenner and based on the 2013 non-fiction book of the same name by Eric Schlosser. [2] It was released initially in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival and then in the United Kingdom at the Sheffield Doc/Fest on June 11, 2016. [3] It is based on the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion in Damascus, Arkansas between September 18–19, 1980. The film aired on the PBS network series American Experience on January 10, 2017. [4] [5]

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Reception

It received a score of 78% on Metacritic [6] and won the award for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. [7]

The film was among 15 on the "shortlist" for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (in respect of the 89th Academy Awards) [8] but was not among the five nominees.

Tirdad Derakhshani of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, "[Will] have your heart racing." [9]

Film facts

Parts of the film were filmed at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona.

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References

  1. "Tribeca Film Festival". April 17, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  2. "Command and Control - 2016 Tribeca Film Festival" . Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  3. "Sheffield Doc/Fest: Sheffield International Documentary Festival". Archived from the original on August 4, 2016. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  4. "American Experience - Command and Control". PBS. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  5. Fischer, Terry (January 27, 2016). "Pipeline 2016: Our Annual Survey of National Programs Coming to Public TV". Current. American University School of Communication. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  6. "Command and Control Metacritic listing" (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/command-and-control). Metacritic. Accessed 24 September 2016.
  7. "2017 Writers Guild Awards Winners". indiewire.com. IndieWire. February 20, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  8. "'O.J.: Made in America,' 'Weiner' Among 15 Documentaries to Advance in Oscar Race". Variety. December 6, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  9. Derakhshani, Tirdad (September 30, 2016). "'Command and Control' documents how close we've come to nuclear annihilation, and it's terrifying". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved May 29, 2022.