If You Love This Planet
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | If You Love This Planet |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 26 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Terre Nash |
| production |
Edward Le Lorrain Kathleen Shannon |
| music | Karl du Plessis |
| camera |
André-Luc Dupont Susan Trow Don Virgo |
| cut | Terre Nash |
If You Love This Planet is a 1982 Canadian documentary .
action
The Australian pediatrician and nuclear opponent Dr. Helen Caldicott explains the medical and social implications of nuclear war and calls for nuclear disarmament. Their demand is supported by footage from newsreels that report on the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In addition, film recordings of seriously injured and burned Japanese victims are shown.
Awards
In 1983 the film won an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short Film category.
background
It premiered in October 1982 at the Chicago International Film Festival .
The United States Department of Justice classified the film as foreign political propaganda so as not to interfere with the Reagan administration's armaments intentions. The effect was that it got the film special attention. During the acceptance speech for the Oscar win, director Terre Nash thanked the Justice Department for effectively promoting the film.
Helen Caldicott later wrote a book with the same title. It was published in 1992 by Norton & Co. and was reissued in paperback in 2009. ISBN 0-393-33302-7
Web links
- If You Love This Planet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article of the Montreal Mirror (English) ( Memento from 23 August 2002 in the Internet Archive )