''Command and Control'' is a 2016 American
documentary
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film directed by
Robert Kenner and based on the 2013 non-fiction
book of the same name by
Eric Schlosser. It was released initially in the United States at the
Tribeca Film Festival
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and then in the United Kingdom at the
Sheffield Doc/Fest on June 11, 2016. It is based on the
1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion in
Damascus, Arkansas between September 18–19, 1980. The film aired on the
PBS
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network series ''
American Experience
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'' on January 10, 2017.
Reception
It received a score of 78% on
Metacritic
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and won the award for
Best Documentary Screenplay from the
Writers Guild of America
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* The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is headquartered in New York City and is affiliated wit ...
.
The film was among 15 on the "shortlist" for the
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Academy Honorary Award, Special Awards to ''Kukan'' and ''Target for Tonight''. The ...
(in respect of the
89th Academy Awards
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) but was not among the five nominees.
Tirdad Derakhshani of ''
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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'' wrote, "
illhave your heart racing."
Film facts
Parts of the film were filmed at the
Titan Missile Museum in
Green Valley,
Arizona
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.
References
External links
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2016 films
2016 documentary films
American documentary television films
American Experience
Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
Films set in Arkansas
Van Buren County, Arkansas
Films based on non-fiction books
English-language documentary films
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