Special Bulletin (1983)

Directed by

Edward Zwick

Genre

drama film, docufiction

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A terrorist group takes a homemade nuclear bomb onto a tugboat and threatens the U.S. government. The story unfolds through live television news broadcasts.

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What happens

Special Bulletin is a 1983 American drama television film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Marshall Herskovitz, based on a story by both. It was an early collaboration between the two, who would later produce such series as thirtysomething and My So-Called Life. The film was first broadcast March 20, 1983 on NBC as part of NBC Sunday Night at the Movies. In the film, a terrorist group of anti-nuclear activists brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in order to blackmail the U.S. government into disabling its nuclear weapons, and the incident is caught live on television. Primarily produced on videotape, it simulates a series of live news broadcasts on the fictional RBS Network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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