Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- 12
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
- nuclear war
- propaganda
- atomic bomb
- cold war
- advertising
- newsreel footage
- nuclear disaster
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Lewis Strauss
Self (archive footage)
- Julius Rosenberg — Self (archive footage)
- Ethel Rosenberg — Self (archive footage)
- Paul Tibbets — Self (archive footage)
- Lloyd Bentsen — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 76 ratings
- Studio
- The Archives Project
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
