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If You Love This Planet

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Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for nuclear disarmament. The film includes newsreel records of the beginnings of the arms race and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as film records showing the Japanese who were severely scarred and burned in the bombings.

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Language
English
  • nuclear
  • disarmament

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Director

Terre Nash

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Canada

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical1 Oct 1982
  • CanadaCA

    • TVInitial airing on CBC1 May 1981

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If You Love This Planet was released on 1 October 1982.

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    CinemaSerf

    4/4/2024

    6/10

    Made amidst the first term of Ronald Reagan's US Presidency, this short documentary uses some clips of his wartime propaganda feature "Jap Zero" (1943) along with some devastatingly effective archive to illustrate a lecture from Dr. Helen Caldicott. She's an Australian paediatrician who is using her time at the podium to warn of the dangers of nuclear proliferation by pointing out some of the medical issues any use o…

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