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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Countdown to Looking Glass, this unnervingly credible television-style drama uses rolling news coverage to make a nuclear crisis feel immediate, procedural, and frighteningly plausible.
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Why this pick
A similarly stark Cold War-era nuclear-war drama, but viewed from ordinary lives rather than command centres; its documentary realism and escalating dread make it a natural companion.
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Why this pick
This sober network-TV nuclear-war drama shares the escalating geopolitical anxiety and matter-of-fact presentation, widening the focus from warnings and strategy to civilian consequence.
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Why this pick
Its faux-documentary reporting, official voices, and clinical imagined crisis directly anticipate the persuasive broadcast realism that gives Countdown to Looking Glass its force.
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Why this pick
A taut, austere control-room nightmare about nuclear escalation, built from procedural detail, moral pressure, and the terrifying sense that catastrophe can arise from systems failing.
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01 / THE STORY
Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Michael Boyle
Bob Calhoun
Dorian Waldorf
Don Tobin
Nancy Dickerson
Eric Sevareid
Matsu Yamada
Mrs. Langhorn