Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War(2024)
series - first aired/released 2024-03-12 - audience 7.9
Documentary
Directed by Brian Knappenberger
With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.
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Cast
Aylam OrianSelf - Vladimir Putin
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf - President of the United States 1933 - 1945 (archive footage)
Harry S. TrumanSelf - President of the United States 1945 - 1953 (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage)
Albert EinsteinSelf - Physicist (archive footage)
Joseph StalinSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953 (archive footage)
Angela MerkelSelf (archive footage)
Hillary ClintonSelf (archive footage)
Boris YeltsinSelf (archive footage)
George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
Bill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
Tony BlairSelf
Condoleezza RiceSelf
Viktor YushchenkoSelf
Viktor YanukovichSelf (archive footage)
Helmut KohlSelf (archive footage)
Mikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)
George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage)
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Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
Pope John Paul IISelf (archive footage)- Egon KrenzSelf (archive footage)
- Günter SchabowskiSelf (archive footage)
Yuri AndropovSelf (archive footage)- Tom NicholsSelf - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College
- Garrett M. GraffSelf - Author, Raven Rock
- Mary Elise SarotteSelf - Author, Not One Inch
Robert GatesSelf - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001- Giorgi KandelakiSelf - Georgian Politician & Historian
Garry KasparovSelf - Russian Chess Grandmaster- Pavel PalazchenkoSelf - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev
- Rose GottemoellerSelf - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019
Kaja KallasSelf - Prime Minister of Estonia- Tim NaftaliSelf - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
- Audra J. WolfeSelf - Author, Freedom's Laboratory
- Stephen KinzerSelf - Author, Overthrow
- Tom Z. CollinaSelf - Co-Author, The Button
Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage), Self - President of Russia (archive footage)- Sam NunnSelf - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Lesley M.M. BlumeSelf - Author, Fallout
- Richard RhodesSelf - Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Gregg HerkenSelf - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb
- Akira YamadaSelf - Professor of History, Meiji University
- Alex WellersteinSelf - Author, Restricted Data
- J. Samuel WalkerSelf - Author, Prompt and Utter Destruction
- Kazuhiko TogoSelf - Grandson of Shigenori Tôgô
- Ukeru MagosakiSelf - Head of Japan's Intelligence & Analysis Bureau 1997 - 1999
- Howard KakitaSelf - Japanese-American
- Gar AlperovitzSelf - Author, Atomic Diplomacy
- Keiko OguraSelf - Hiroshima Resident
- Kunihiko IdaSelf - Hiroshima Resident
- Teruko YahataSelf - Hiroshima Resident
- Kingo KawaharaSelf - Hiroshima Resident
- Masaaki TakanoSelf - Hiroshima Resident
- James L. Nolan Jr.Self - Author, Atomic Doctors
- Kathleen BaileySelf - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1985 - 1987
Joe BidenSelf - President of the United States (archive footage)- Serhii PlokhySelf - The Russo-Ukrainian War, Self - Author, Atoms and Ashes
Eva BraunSelf - Wife of Adolf Hitler (archive footage)- Karma DeaneSelf - Dance Instructor (archive footage)
Karl DönitzSelf - German Grand Admiral (archive sound)
Leslie GrovesSelf - Brigadier General, U.S. Army (archive footage)- Otto HahnSelf - Chemist (archive footage)
- John HerseySelf - Journalist (archive footage)
Volodymyr ZelenskyySelf - President of Ukraine, Self, Self - President of Ukraine (archive footage)
Emperor Hirohito of JapanSelf - Emperor of Japan 1926 - 1989 (archive footage)- Frank Hiroji KakitaSelf - Howard's Father (archive footage)
Donald TrumpSelf (archive footage), Self - New York Real Estate Developer (archive footage)- Tomiko KakitaSelf - Howard's Mother (archive footage)
- Lise MeitnerSelf - Physicist (archive footage)
J. Robert OppenheimerSelf - Physicist (archive footage)- Henry L. StimsonSelf - U.S. Secretary of War 1940 - 1945 (archive footage)
- Fritz StrassmannSelf - Chemist (archive footage)
- Shigenori TōgōSelf - Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs 1945 (archive footage)
- Yoshijirô UmezuSelf - Japan Chief of the Army General Staff 1944 - 1945 (archive footage)
Joachim von RibbentropSelf - German Foreign Minister 1938 - 1945 (archive footage)- Susan GlasserSelf - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising
- Arkady OstrovskySelf - Author, The Invention of Russia
- Masha LipmanSelf - Russian Journalist
- Tim WeinerSelf - Author, Legacy of Ashes
- Nina KhrushchevaSelf - Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Scott AndersonSelf - Author, The Quiet Americans
Timothy Garton AshSelf - Author, Homelands
Jens StoltenbergSelf - Secretary General of NATO- Miles YuSelf - Professor of East Asia Military History, U.S. Naval Academy
- Robert MeeropolSelf - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
- Becky JenkinsSelf - Daughter of American Communists
- David HollowaySelf - Author, Stalin and the Bomb, Self - Author, Soviet Union and the Arms Race
- Donald RitchieSelf - Senate Historian Emeritus
Howard A. RodmanSelf - Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Lee GrantSelf - Actress- Larry TyeSelf - Author, Demagogue
Herbert J. BibermanSelf - Director & Screenwriter (archive footage)
J. Edward BrombergSelf - Actor (archive footage)- Roy CohnSelf - Chief Counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy (archive footage)
- Bob ConsidineSelf - Journalist (archive footage)
Gary CooperSelf - Actor (archive footage)
Friedrich EngelsSelf - Political Theorist (archive footage)- James ForrestalSelf - First Secretary of Defense 1947 (archive footage)
Klaus FuchsSelf - German Theoretical Physicist & Atomic Spy (archive footage)
Winston ChurchillSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945 (archive footage), Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1951 - 1955 (archive footage)- Harry GoldSelf - Spy Courier (archive footage)
- David GreenglassSelf - U.S. Machinist & Atomic Spy for Soviet Union (archive footage)
- Ruth GreenglassSelf - Wife of David Greenglass (archive footage)
- Andrei GurulyovSelf - State Duma Party (archive footage)
- Johan KartusSelf - Kaja Kallas' Grandfather(archive footage)
Anne ApplebaumSelf - Author, Gulag, Self - Author, Red Famine- Kristi KartusSelf - Kaja Kallas' Mother (archive footage)
Pavel LitvinovSelf - Soviet Dissident, Self - Grandson of Maxim Litvinov- Lori CluneSelf - Professor of History, CSU Fresno, Self - Author, Executing the Rosenbergs
- Veera KartusSelf - Kaja Kallas' Grandmother(archive footage)
- George KennanSelf - Chargé d'Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Moscow (archive footage)
Vladimir LeninSelf - Bolshevik Leader (archive footage)
Maxim LitvinovSelf - Founding Member of the Bolsheviks (archive footage)
Daniel EllsbergSelf - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower, Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964
Mao ZedongSelf - Leader of China 1943 - 1976 (archive footage)
Karl MarxSelf - Political Theorist (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthySelf - U.S. Senator, Wisconsin (archive footage)- Michael MeeropolSelf - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg (archive footage)
- Leonid RamzinSelf - Engineer Accused of Plotting Coup (archive footage)
Ethel RosenbergSelf - Atomic Spy (archive footage)
Julius RosenbergSelf - Atomic Spy (archive footage)
Lavrentiy BeriaSelf - Chief of Soviet Police (archive footage), Self - Administrative Director, The Soviet Bomb Project (archive footage)- Irving SaypolSelf - Chief Prosecutor (archive footage)
Stuart SymingtonSelf - U.S. Senator, Missouri (archive footage)
Edward TellerSelf - U.S. Nuclear Physicist (archive footage)- J. Parnell ThomasSelf - Chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities (archive footage)
Lev TrotskiySelf - Marxist Revolutionary (archive footage)
Dalton TrumboSelf - Screenwriter (archive footage)
Fred TrumpSelf - New York Real Estate Developer (archive footage)
Joseph N. WelchSelf - Special Counsel for the Army (archive footage)
Gennady ZyuganovSelf - Leader of Russian Communist Party Faction (archive footage)- Terumi TanakaSelf - Nagasaki Survivor, Anti-Nuclear Advocate
- Peter SichelSelf - OSS Officer 1942 - 1947
- Milton BeardenSelf - CIA, Clandestine Services 1964 - 1994
- Ervand AbrahamianSelf - Author, The Coup
- David RemnickSelf - Editor, The New Yorker
- Peter KornbluhSelf - Director Cuba Documentation Project
- Joseph AlsopSelf - New York Herald Tribune (archive footage)
- Stewart AlsopSelf - New York Herald Tribune (archive footage)
Jacobo ÁrbenzSelf - President of Guatemala (archive footage)
Carlos Castillo ArmasSelf - Lieutenant Colonel, Guatemalan Army (archive footage)- Ladislav BittmanSelf - Czechoslovak Secret Service Defector (archive footage)
Kyrylo BudanovSelf - Ukraine Intelligence (archive footage)
Allen DullesSelf - Chief of Office of Strategic Services (archive footage)- John Foster DullesSelf - Secretary of State 1953 - 1959 (archive footage)
Felix DzerzhinskySelf - Founder of the Cheka, Precursor to the KGB (archive footage)
Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf - President of the United States 1953 -1961 (archive footage)
Richard HelmsSelf - intelligence Officer, Office of Strategic Services (archive footage)- Herman KahnSelf - Physics Division (archive footage)
Nikita KhrushchevSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1953 - 1964 (archive footage)- Stanislav DemchenkoSelf - KGB Defector (archive footage)
Mohammad MosaddeghSelf - Prime Minister of Iran (archive footage)
Richard NixonSelf - Vice President of the United States 1953 -1961 (archive footage)
Mohammad Reza Shah PahlaviSelf - Shah of Iran 1941 - 1979 (archive footage)- William PaleySelf - Chief Executive CBS (archive footage)
Kim PhilbySelf - Head of British Intelligence in Washington, Soviet Double Agent (archive footage)- Vitaliy RudenkoSelf - Ukrainian National Guard (archive footage)
- Sergii SolodchenkoSelf - Volunteer, Battle of Hostomel (archive footage)
- Arthur Hays SulzbergerSelf - New York Times Publisher 1935 - 1961 (archive footage)
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