Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War

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Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War
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Genre Docu-series
Directed by Brian Knappenberger
ComposerJohn Dragonetti
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes9
Production
Producers
  • Adam Kaplan
  • Alexandra Poolos
  • Sabrina Parke
CinematographyJay Visit
Kassim Olivier Ahmed
Editors
  • Bo Mehrad
  • Aaron Crozier
  • Christy Denes
  • Sean Jarrett
  • Michelle M. Witten
  • Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi
Running time60-67 minutes
Production companyLuminant Media
Original release
Network Netflix
ReleaseMarch 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)

Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War is a 2024 American nine-part docuseries created for Netflix and directed by Brian Knappenberger. [1] It was released on March 12, 2024. [2]

Contents

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleOriginal release date
11"The Sun Came Up Tremendous"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12) [3]
22"Poisoning the Soil"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
33"Institutional Insanity"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
44"The Wall"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
55"War Games"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
66"Empire Is Untenable"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
77"The End of History"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
88"Moscow Will Not Be Silent"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)
99"We Are Not Dead Yet"March 12, 2024 (2024-03-12)

Reception

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of film and television critics' reviews were positive, based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.0/10. Dan Einav of The Financial Times states, "Unlike Oppenheimer, the series looks beyond those who actively shaped seismic events to those helplessly caught in history." [4] Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph calls it, "a nine-part documentary series about the Cold War uses Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film as a convenient springboard." [5]

In an aberrant review excluded from Rotten Tomatoes, Noah Rothman of the conservative American magazine National Review , dubs it, "The Worst Cold War Documentary Ever Made". [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Vognar, Chris (March 12, 2024). "New Netflix Doc Asks If Putin Restarted the Cold War -- Or If It Ever Ended in the First Place". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 16, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War Documentary Considers The Ongoing Impact of the U.S.-Soviet Conflict". Netflix Tudum. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Watch Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War | Netflix Official Site". www.netflix.com. Retrieved June 16, 2025.
  4. ↑ Einav, Dan. "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War — new Netflix documentary takes the baton from Oppenheimer". www.ft.com. Archived from the original on April 7, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  5. ↑ Power, Ed (March 12, 2024). "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, review: watched Oppenheimer? Now absorb the facts". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235. Archived from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 16, 2024.
  6. ↑ Rothman, Noah (March 21, 2024). "The Worst Cold War Documentary Ever Made". National Review. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved May 29, 2024.


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