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Directed by | Robert Kenner |
Produced by |
Robert Kenner Melissa Robledo Mark Samels Eric Schlosser |
Screenplay by |
Robert Kenner Eric Schlosser |
Based on |
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser |
Music by | Mark Adler |
Cinematography |
Paul Goldsmith Jay Redmond |
Edited by | Kim Roberts |
Release date
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Running time
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92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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. 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. 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.
It received a score of 78% on Metacritic.
Parts of the film were filmed at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona