Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

War Games

Directed by Brian Knappenberger
TV-14
S1 • E5    Mar 11, 2024    67m
8.0
With both sides planning for the worst-case scenario, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev find common ground. Tragedy strikes after a nuclear disaster.

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Cast of War Games

  • German GalushchenkoSelf - Minister of Energy, Ukraine
  • Gabrielius LandsbergisSelf - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania
  • Garrett GraffSelf - Author, Raven Rock
  • Tom Z. CollinaSelf - Co-Author, The Button
  • Robert GatesSelf - Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1991 - 1993
  • Tom NicholsSelf - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College
  • Elisabeth EavesSelf - Contributing Editor, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
  • Tim NaftaliSelf - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
  • Brian MorraSelf - U.S. Military Intelligence Officer 1979 - 1994
  • Wolfgang IschingerSelf - Assistant to West Germany Foreign Minister 1982 - 1990
  • Audra J. WolfeSelf - Author, Freedom's Laboratory
  • David HollowaySelf - Author, Soviet Union and the Arms Race
  • Timothy Garton AshSelf - Author, Homelands
  • Roderic LyneSelf - U.K. Ambassador to Russia 2000 - 2004
  • Fiona HillSelf - National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs 2017 - 2019
  • Rose GottemoellerSelf - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019
  • Nicholas MeyerSelf - Director, The Day After
  • Jack F. Matlock Jr.Self - Soviet Specialist, National Security Council 1983 - 1986
  • Pavel PalazchenkoSelf - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Richard RhodesSelf - Author, Arsenals of Folly
  • David RemnickSelf - Editor, The New Yorker
  • Mary SarotteSelf - Author, The Collapse
  • Serhii PlokhySelf - Author, Atoms and Ashes
  • Archie BrownSelf - Author, The Human Factor
  • Sviatlana TsikhanouskayaSelf - Child in Neighboring Belarus in 1986
  • Condoleezza RiceSelf - National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs 1989 - 1991
  • Yuri AndropovSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1982 - 1984
  • Leonid BrezhnevSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1964 - 1982
  • Zbigniew BrzezinskiSelf - National Security Advisor 1977 - 1981
  • Jimmy CarterSelf - President of the United States 1978 - 1981
  • Konstantin ChernenkoSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1984 - 1985
  • Pantelei GopkaloSelf - Gorbachev's Maternal Grandfather
  • Mikhail GorbachevSelf - Leader of the Soviet Union 1985 - 1991
  • Raisa GorbachevaSelf - Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Oleg GordievskySelf - KGB Officer
  • Larry McDonaldSelf - Georgia (D)
  • Bill OdomSelf - Military Assistant to Brzezinski
  • Nikolay OgarkovSelf - Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces
  • Gennadi OsipovichSelf - Soviet Air Defense Pilot
  • Leonard PerrootsSelf - Chief Intel Officer, U.S. Air Force in Europe
  • Stanislav PetrovSelf - Soviet Air Defense Forces
  • Ronald ReaganSelf - President of the United States 1981 - 1989
  • Edward TellerSelf - U.S. Nuclear Physicist
  • Margaret ThatcherSelf - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979 - 1990
  • Volodymyr ZelenskyySelf - President of Ukraine
  • Aylam OrianVladimir Putin
  • Brian KnappenbergerDirector
  • Adam KaplanProducer
  • Sabrina ParkeProducer
  • Alexandra PoolosProducer

 

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