Mayday
2003 · Documentary · Drama
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TV series / 2024
Turning Point : L'arme nucléaire et la guerre froide
Episode directors
Brian Knappenberger
With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.
The story
With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.
Cast
Aylam OrianSelf - Vladimir Putin
Vladimir PutinSelf (archive footage) · Self - President of Russia (archive footage)
Harry S. TrumanSelf - President of the United States 1945 - 1953 (archive footage)
Joseph StalinSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953 (archive footage)
Condoleezza RiceSelf
Tom NicholsSelf - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College
Garrett M. GraffSelf - Author, Raven Rock
Tim NaftaliSelf - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
Tom Z. CollinaSelf - Co-Author, The Button
Gregg HerkenSelf - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb
Alex WellersteinSelf - Author, Restricted Data
Serhii PlokhySelf - Author, Atoms and Ashes · Self - The Russo-Ukrainian War
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Volodymyr ZelenskyySelf - President of Ukraine · Self - President of Ukraine (archive footage) · Self
David HollowaySelf - Author, Soviet Union and the Arms Race · Self - Author, Stalin and the Bomb
Winston ChurchillSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1951 - 1955 (archive footage) · Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945 (archive footage)
Albert EinsteinSelf - Physicist (archive footage)
Hillary ClintonSelf (archive footage)
Boris YeltsinSelf (archive footage)
Bill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
Mikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)
George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage)
Mary Elise SarotteSelf - Author, Not One Inch
Giorgi KandelakiSelf - Georgian Politician & Historian
Rose GottemoellerSelf - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019
Kaja KallasSelf - Prime Minister of Estonia
Audra J. WolfeSelf - Author, Freedom's Laboratory
Stephen KinzerSelf - Author, Overthrow
Kathleen BaileySelf - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1985 - 1987
Donald TrumpSelf (archive footage) · Self - New York Real Estate Developer (archive footage)
J. Robert OppenheimerSelf - Physicist (archive footage)
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
Pavel LitvinovSelf - Soviet Dissident · Self - Grandson of Maxim Litvinov
Anne ApplebaumSelf - Author, Gulag · Self - Author, Red Famine
Lori CluneSelf - Author, Executing the Rosenbergs · Self - Professor of History, CSU Fresno
Daniel EllsbergSelf - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower · Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964
Lavrentiy BeriaSelf - Chief of Soviet Police (archive footage) · Self - Administrative Director, The Soviet Bomb Project (archive footage)
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf - President of the United States 1933 - 1945 (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany (archive footage)
Angela MerkelSelf (archive footage)
George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
Tony BlairSelf
Viktor YushchenkoSelf
Viktor YanukovichSelf (archive footage)
Helmut KohlSelf (archive footage)
Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
Pope John Paul IISelf (archive footage)
Egon KrenzSelf (archive footage)
Günter SchabowskiSelf (archive footage)
Yuri AndropovSelf (archive footage)
Robert GatesSelf - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001
Garry KasparovSelf - Russian Chess Grandmaster
Pavel PalazchenkoSelf - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev
Sam NunnSelf - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Lesley M.M. BlumeSelf - Author, Fallout
Richard RhodesSelf - Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Akira YamadaSelf - Professor of History, Meiji University
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
Joe BidenSelf - President of the United States (archive footage)
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)
Emperor Hirohito of JapanSelf - Emperor of Japan 1926 - 1989 (archive footage)
Frank Hiroji KakitaSelf - Howard's Father (archive footage)
Tomiko KakitaSelf - Howard's Mother (archive footage)
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