"A hot spot in a cold war." 17 March 1982 History, Factual 86 mins
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.
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Harry S. Truman as Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev as Self (archive footage)
Lewis Strauss as Self (archive footage)
Julius Rosenberg as Self (archive footage)
Ethel Rosenberg as Self (archive footage)
Paul Tibbets as Self (archive footage)
Lloyd Bentsen as Self (archive footage)
Jayne Loader Director
Kevin Rafferty Director
Pierce Rafferty Director
Margaret Crimmins Sound Editor
Lee Dichter Sound Mixer
Jayne Loader Editor
Kevin Rafferty Editor
Kevin Rafferty Producer
United Kingdom 25 November 1982
Netherlands 11 November 1982
United States 17 March 1982
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25 June 1982
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
10 August 1982
It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president.
01 January 1982
A look at British involvement in the construction of the new double-track railway from Kowloon, on Hong Kong's harbour, to the Chinese border.
01 January 1982
Joan Mulligan is waiting in vain for her husband, Arthur Blanc, an Etruscologist who has traveled to Tuscany in search of materials for an exhibition.
04 January 1982
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
03 December 1982
The Man from Vietnam is a Hong Kong Crime-Drama directed by Clarence Ford and starring Stanley Fung.
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A group of policemen and policewomen from different municipalities are in Rome to take a course that will take them on a study trip to London.
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Following Rocky Balboa's intense battle with his most powerful adversary yet – the ferocious Clubber Lang – Rocky joins forces with former rival Apollo Creed in an effort to get back his fighting spirit.
18 November 1982
Sally (Sally Yeh) is a club singer, caught in a love rectangle between three men: Stone (Kenny Bee), a bank robber newly released from prison, club owner Paul King (Michael Chan Wai-Man) and Pow (Melvin Wong), a policeman.
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Tomisaburo Wakayama is back with a new take on the classic Yamamoto Shugoro masterpiece “Ame Agaru” as a samurai on the run with his bride who makes a living by challenging dojo masters to a match, then taking money from them to keep quiet about it.
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