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Netflix Expands ‘Turning Point’ Franchise With New Season Of Docuseries On The Cold War
EXCLUSIVE: Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror was a five-part series that aired on Netflix in 2021. The streamer is now expanding the franchise with a new season telling the story of the Cold War. Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War comes from director Brian Knappenberger, who was also behind The […]
The series will tell the story of the development of the atomic bomb and the dramatic proliferation of nuclear weapons in the decades after, and traces Cold War history past the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of Vladimir Putin and into the Russian invasion of Ukraine. From survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima to extensive filming in Ukraine, Germany, and some of the former Soviet Republics, the series includes interviews with seven current or former world leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as well as prominent political figures like NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, former CIA Director Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It also features key figures of the Cold War, including the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, prominent German protest leaders who helped topple the Berlin Wall, as well as one of the last long form interviews with nuclear activist Daniel Ellsberg, who called the United States classified nuclear plans “institutional insanity.”
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