While the Rest of Us Die (2020)

Original title

While The Rest Of Us Die

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 14 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series investigates the U.S. government's secret plans to ensure continuity of government during a catastrophe. It examines how these plans expose inequalities and the hidden costs of keeping the system running.

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What happens

While the Rest of Us Die: Secrets of America's Shadow Government is a Vice on TV documentary television series exploring twentieth-century and twenty-first-century continuity of government (COG) measures of the United States federal government, the social, racial, and class inequalities these measures point to, the changing and inconsistent meanings of the concepts of "defense" and "homeland security", and the costs of COG infrastructure and maintenance to the United States federal budget. The series debuted November 16, 2020. The series was inspired by the 2017 book Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself—While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff. The Raven Rock Mountain Complex providing a title for the book is a nuclear bunker in Southern Pennsylvania intended to serve as a secondary Pentagon in case of the destruction or disabling of the primary headquarters in Washington, D.C. and is also discussed in the television documentary series. The series is narrated by American actor Jeffrey Wright. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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