Command and Control

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Command and Control takes a riveting look at the American nuclear program that offers some disturbing insights -- and raises some immensely troubling questions.

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Movie Info

Filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how human error caused an explosion at a nuclear site toward the end of the Cold War and links mutually assured destruction to self-annihilation.

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Robert Kenner
Director
Eric Schlosser
Producer
Melissa Robledo
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Robert Kenner
Screenwriter
Eric Schlosser
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Critic Reviews for Command and Control

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  • Survivors give gripping accounts of events, while journalist Eric Schlosser (on whose book the documentary is based) explains that the risks of an accidental nuclear-weapon explosion have always been much higher than we imagined.

    August 2, 2018 | Full Review…

    Brad Newsome

    Sydney Morning Herald

  • As a child, I worried about nuclear war. It never occurred to me that I should have been worried about a nuclear accident.

    October 12, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

    Mick LaSalle

    San Francisco Chronicle

  • The inescapable conclusion is that we have more to fear from our own human error than from our enemies' malevolence.

    October 6, 2016 | Full Review…

    J. R. Jones

    Chicago Reader

  • There's an important story to tell here, one about the risks created by the very people and things we employ to keep us secure, but not enough to fill the 92-minute runtime.

    October 5, 2016 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

    Matthew Lickona

    San Diego Reader

  • A terrifying documentary that'll have your heart racing as fast as any Hollywood thriller, Kenner's film reveals that, due to a range of errors and accidents, we were very close, more than once, to detonating a nuke on our own soil.

    September 30, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

    Tirdad Derakhshani

    Philadelphia Inquirer

  • Lots of documentaries these days will tell you to be afraid, to be very afraid, but few will scare you as coolly and as convincingly as "Command and Control."

    September 29, 2016 | Full Review…

    Kenneth Turan

    Los Angeles Times
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