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Command and Control (film)


Command and Control
Theatrical release poster
Robert Kenner
Robert KennerEric Schlosser
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safetyby Eric Schlosser
Robert KennerMelissa RobledoMark SamelsEric Schlosser
Paul GoldsmithJay Redmond
Kim Roberts
Mark Adler
American ExperienceRobert Kenner Films
PBS
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April 17, 2016 (2016-04-17)
92 minutes
United States
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 and won the award for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America.

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

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

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

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