Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024 American nine-part docuseries
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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]
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| Genre | Docu-series |
| Directed by | Brian Knappenberger |
| Composer | John Dragonetti |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
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| Cinematography | Jay Visit Kassim Olivier Ahmed |
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| Running time | 60-67 minutes |
| Production company | Luminant Media |
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| Network | Netflix |
| Release | March 12, 2024 |
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Sun Came Up Tremendous" | March 12, 2024[3] |
| 2 | 2 | "Poisoning the Soil" | March 12, 2024 |
| 3 | 3 | "Institutional Insanity" | March 12, 2024 |
| 4 | 4 | "The Wall" | March 12, 2024 |
| 5 | 5 | "War Games" | March 12, 2024 |
| 6 | 6 | "Empire Is Untenable" | March 12, 2024 |
| 7 | 7 | "The End of History" | March 12, 2024 |
| 8 | 8 | "Moscow Will Not Be Silent" | March 12, 2024 |
| 9 | 9 | "We Are Not Dead Yet" | March 12, 2024 |
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]