In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?

  • Documentary
10/1/1984
25

Storyline

Multiple children are interviewed and asked about their thoughts on the threat of nuclear weapons.

Reviews

  • Geronimo1967

    Using a collection of interview clips with young people, peppered with extrapolations from professionals trying to make sense of their comments, this documentary illustrates quite clearly the sense of frustration and defeatism felt by teenagers in the early 1980s. With NATO and the Soviets heavily armed and pointing no end of missiles at each other and with President Ronald Reagan talking openly about the weaponisation of space, these youngsters take an understandably cynical view of their own future. Given that prevailing view, they feel little inclined to invest in society - after all, after the inevitable push of the button only the scorpions will be left. It makes its point swiftly and quite effectively, but after about ten minutes thei...

    June 21, 2025

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