Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024) - TV Show |
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Season 1
1x01
Mar 12, 2024
The Sun Came Up Tremendous
1x02
Mar 12, 2024
Poisoning the Soil
1x03
Mar 12, 2024
Institutional Insanity
1x04
Mar 12, 2024
The Wall
1x05
Mar 12, 2024
War Games
1x06
Mar 12, 2024
Empire Is Untenable
1x07
Mar 12, 2024
The End of History
1x08
Mar 12, 2024
Moscow Will Not Be Silent
1x09
Mar 12, 2024
We Are Not Dead Yet
Adolf Hitler
as Self - Fuehrer and Chancellor of Germany
Albert Einstein
as Self - Physicist
Bill Clinton
as Self - Democratic Candidate for President 1992
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self - President of the United States 1953 - 1961
John F. Kennedy
as Self - President of the United States 1961 - 1963
Harry S. Truman
as Self - President of the United States 1945 - 1953
Barack Obama
as Self - President of the United States 2009 - 2017
Joe Biden
as Self - President of the United States
Jimmy Carter
as Self - President of the United States 1978 - 1981
David Remnick
as Self - Editor, The New Yorker
Hillary Clinton
as Self - U.S. Senator 2001 - 2009
Colin Powell
as Self - Secretary of State 2001 - 2005
Tony Blair
as Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1997 - 2007
Condoleezza Rice
as Self - National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs 1989 - 1991
Alexei Navalny
as Self - Russian Anti-Corruption Activist
George W. Bush
as Self - President of the United States 2001 - 2009
Donald Trump
as Self - President of the United States 2017 - 2021
Zbigniew Brzezinski
as Self - National Security Advisor 1977 - 1981
Tim Weiner
as Self - Author, Legacy of Ashes
Robert Gates
as Self - Director, Central Intelligence Agency 1991 - 1993
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1985 - 1991
Bill Browder
as Self - Author, Red Notice
Mikhail Baryshnikov
as Self - Ballet Dancer
Cherie Blair
as Self - Wife of Tony Blair
Garry Kasparov
as Self - Russian Chess Grandmaster
George Bush
as Self - President of the United States 1989 - 1993
Gerald Ford
as Self - President of the United States 1974 - 1977
Pope John Paul II
as Self
Ronald Reagan
as Self - President of the United States 1981 - 1989
Franklin D. Roosevelt
as Self - President of the United States 1933 - 1945
Richard Nixon
as Self - President of the United States 1969 - 1974
Aylam Orian
as Self - Vladimir Putin
Dick Cheney
as Self - U.S. Defense Secretary 1989 - 1993
Vladimir Putin
as Self - President of Russia
Fidel Castro
as Self - Leader of Cuba 1959 - 2008
Robert McNamara
as Self - Secretary of Defense
Saddam Hussein
as Self - President of Iraq 1979 - 2003
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
as Self - Shah of Iran 1941 - 1979
Michael Zimpfer
as Self - Rudolfinerhaus Clinic, Vienna, Austria
Boris Berezovsky
as Self - Owner of ORT Television
Leon Trotsky
as Self - Marxist Revolutionary
Wolfgang Schäuble
as Self - West German Federal Minister of the Interior 1989 - 1991
Sam Nunn
as Self - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Richard Lugar
as Self - U.S. Senator, Indiana 1977 - 2013
Boris Yeltsin
as Self - President of Russia 1991 - 1999
Deng Xiaoping
as Self - Leader of China 1978 - 1989
Daniel Ellsberg
as Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964
Timothy Garton Ash
as Self - Author, Homelands
Joseph Stalin
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1924 - 1953
Winston Churchill
as Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945
Joachim von Ribbentrop
as Self - German Foreign Minister 1938 - 1945
Leslie Groves
as Self - Brigadier General, U.S. Army
Zedong Mao
as Self - Leader of China 1943 - 1976
Otto Hahn
as Self - Chemist
John Foster Dulles
as Self - Secretary of State 1953 - 1959
Allen Dulles
as Self - CIA Director 1953 - 1961
Henry L. Stimson
as Self - U.S. Secretary of War 1940 - 1945
Michael McFaul
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2012 - 2014
Angela Merkel
as Self - German Chancellor 2005 - 2021
Dmitry Medvedev
as Self - President of Russia 2008 - 2012
Margaret Thatcher
as Self - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979 - 1990
Nicolae Ceausescu
as Self - Communist Leader of Romanian 1965 - 1989
V.I. Lenin
as Self - Bolshevik Leader
Richard Rhodes
as Self - Author, Arsenals of Folly
Salvador Allende
as Self - President of Chile 1970 - 1973
Peter Kornbluh
as Self - Director, Cuba Documentation Project
Joseph McCarthy
as Self - U.S. Senator, Wisconsin
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self - Attorney General
Claudia Zielke
as Gaby Sayonz
Stephen Kinzer
as Self - Author, Overthrow
Simon Ostrovsky
as Self - Russian-American Journalist
Edward Teller
as Self - U.S. Nuclear Physicist
Brian Latell
as Self - CIA Officer 1962 - 1990
Tim Naftali
as Self - Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University
Willy Brandt
as Self - Governing Mayor of West Berlin 1957 - 1966
J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Self - Physicist
Lech Walesa
as Self - Union Leader
Václav Havel
as Self - Czech Playwright and Dissident
Oleg Gordievsky
as Self - KGB Officer
William J. Perry
as Self - U.S. Defense Secretary 1994 - 1997
Michael Meeropol
as Self - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
Robert Meeropol
as Self - Son of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
Anne Applebaum
as Self - Author, The Twilight of Democracy
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
as Self - Russian Businessman
David E. Hoffman
as Self - Journalist
Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin
as Self - Russian Attorney
Richard Helms
as Self - intelligence Officer, Office of Strategic Services
Lee Grant
as Self - Actress
Tom Nichols
as Self - Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College
Andrei Soldatov
as Self - Russian Investigative Journalist
Gennadi Osipovich
as Self - Soviet Air Defense Pilot
Gary Cooper
as Self - Actor
Mikhail Zygar
as Self - Founding Editor-in-Chief, TV Rain
George Robertson
as Self - NATO Secretary General 1999 - 2003
Susan Glasser
as Self - Co-Author, Kremlin Rising
Mike Pompeo
as Self - U.S. Secretary of State 2018 - 2021
Bob Considine
as Self - Journalist
Larry Tye
as Self - Author, Demagogue
Gregg Herkin
as Self - Author, Brotherhood of the Bomb
Brent Scowcroft
as Self - National Security Advisor 1989 - 1993
Nicholas Meyer
as Self - Director, The Day After
Anatoli Dobrynin
as Self - Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.
Augusto Pinochet
as Self - President of Chile 1974 - 1990
William Paley
as Self - Chief Executive CBS
Alex Wellerstein
as Self - Author, Restricted Data
Fiona Hill
as Self - National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs 2017 - 2019
Milton Bearden
as Self - CIA, Clandestine Services 1964 - 1994
Nikolai Patruchev
as Self - Director of the FSB
Lyudmila Putina
as Self - Former Wife of Vladimir Putin
Oleg Kalugin
as Self - KGB Operative 1974 - 1990
Keiko Ogura
as Self - Hiroshima Resident
Sergei Ivanov
as Self - Putin's Former KGB Colleague
Mikheil Saakashvili
as Self - President of Georgia 2004 - 2013
Rose Gottemoeller
as Self - NATO Deputy Secretary General 2016 - 2019
Helmut Kohl
as Self - Chancellor of West Germany 1982 - 1990
Viktor Yushchenko
as Self - Candidate, 2004 Ukraine Presidential Election
Arkady Ostrovsky
as Self - Author, The Invention of Russia
Jens Stoltenberg
as Self unknown episodes
Donald Ritchie
as Self - Senate Historian Emeritus
Roman Abramovich
as Self - Russian Oligarch & Politician
Garrett Graff
as Self - Author, Raven Rock
Sergio Plohkii
as Self - Author, Atoms and Ashes
Vladimir Zelenskiy
as Self - President of Ukraine
Alex Budin
as Self - Oleksiy Danilov
Nina Khrushcheva
as Self - Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Roy M. Cohn
as Self - Chief Counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy
Andrzej Duda
as Self - President of Poland
Hirohito
as Self - Emperor of Japan 1926 - 1989
Pavel Palazchenko
as Self - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev
Roderic Lyne
as Self - U.K. Ambassador to Russia 2000 - 2004
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1987 - 1991
Katerina Kotrikadze
as Self
Kaja Kallas
as Self - Prime Minister of Estonia
Olga Rudenko
as Self - Editor-in-Chief, Kyiv Independent
Sauli Niinistö
as Self - Prime Minister of Finland
Andy Weber
as Self - U.S. Threat Reduction Policy Advisor 1996 - 2009
Magdalena Andersson
as Self - Prime Minister of Sweden 2021 - 2022
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
as Self - Child in Neighboring Belarus in 1986
Karl Dönitz
as Self - German Grand Admiral
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1953 - 1964
Yoshijirô Umezu
as Self - Japan Chief of the Army General Staff 1944 - 1945
Audra J. Wolfe
as Self - Author, Freedom's Laboratory
Oleksiy Danilov
as Self - Secretary of Ukraine's National Defense and Security Council
Gabrielius Landsbergis
as Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania
Gar Alperovitz
as Self - Author, Atomic Diplomacy
Eva Braun
as Self - Wife of Adolf Hitler
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs
as Self - Host of Tagesthemen
Vladimir Zhirinovskiy
as Self - Leader of Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia
William Taylor
as Self - U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine 2006 - 2009
Lavrenti Beria
as Self - Chief of Soviet Police
Elena Ceausescu
as Self - Wife of Nicolae Ceausescu
Victor Yanukovich
as Self - Candidate, 2004 Ukraine Presidential Election
Joseph N. Welch
as Self - Special Counsel for the Army
Leonid Brezhnev
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1964 - 1982
Yuri Andropov
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1982 - 1984
Julius Rosenberg
as Self - Atomic Spy
Richard M. Bissell Jr.
as Self - CIA Officer 1954 - 1962
Mary Sarotte
as Self - Author, Not One Inch
Tom Z. Collina
as Self - Co-Author, The Button
Masha Lipman
as Self - Russian Journalist
Giorgi Kandelaki
as Self - Georgian Politician & Historian
David Holloway
as Self - Author, Soviet Union and the Arms Race
Kathleen Bailey
as Self - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1985 - 1987
Scott Anderson
as Self - Author, The Quiet Americans
Archie Brown
as Self - Author, The Human Factor
Wolfgang Ischinger
as Self - Assistant to West Germany Foreign Minister 1982 - 1990
Horst Teltschik
as Self - West German National Security Advisor 1982 - 1990
Oleksiy Sorokin
as Self - Journalist, Kyiv Independent
Lori Clune
as Self - Author, Executing the Rosenbergs
Joachim Neumann
as Self - East German Resident
Elisabeth Eaves
as Self - Contributing Editor, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Pavel Litvinov
as Self - Grandson of Maxim Litvinov
Algirdas Kaušpėdas
as Self - Director of Lithuanian National Television 1990 - 1992
Gabi Sajonz
as Self - East German Resident
Siegbert Schefke
as Self - East German Undercover Journalist
Howard Kakita
as Self - Hiroshima Survivor
Kunihiko Iida
as Self - Hiroshima Survivor
Teruko Yahata
as Self - Hiroshima Survivor
Kyrylo Budanov
as Self - Ukraine Intelligence
Mohammed Mossadegh
as Self - Prime Minister of Iran 1951 - 1953
Gennadiy Zyuganov
as Self - Leader of the Russian Communist Party Faction
Dmitry Yazov
as Self - Soviet Minister of Defense 1987 - 1991
Vladimir Kryuchkov
as Self - Head of the KGB 1988 - 1991
Raisa Gorbacheva
as Self - Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
Felix Dzerzhinsky
as Self - Founder of the Soviet Secret Police
Gennady Yanayev
as Self - Deputy Chairman of the Trade Unions 1989
Johan Kartus
as Self - Kaja Kallas' Grandfather
Veera Kartus
as Self - Kaja Kallas' Grandmother
German Galushchenko
as Self - Minister of Energy, Ukraine
Rita
as Self - Ukrainian Citizen
Vytautas Landsbergis
as Self - Co-Founder of Lithuanian Reform Movement
Arnold Sinisalu
as Self - Director General, Estonian Internal Security Service
Mark Pomar
as Self - Author, Cold War Radio
Ricardas Daunoravicius
as Self - Lithuanian Activist
Brian Morra
as Self - U.S. Military Intelligence Officer 1979 - 1994
Terumi Tanaka
as Self - Nagasaki Survivor, Anti-Nuclear Advocate
Peter Sichel
as Self - OSS Officer 1942 - 1947
Vladimir Ashurkov
as Self - Executive Director, Anti-Corruption Foundation
Lesley M.M. Blume
as Self - Author, Fallout
Ervand Abrahamian
as Self - Author, The Coup
Jim Lawler
as Self - Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency 1980 - 2005
Joe Detrani
as Self - CIA Chief of East Asia Operations 1984 - 1986
Miles Yu
as Self - Professor of East Asia Military History, U.S. Naval Academy
Wang Dan
as Self - Student Leader, Tiananmen Square Protests
Hans Schulze
as Self - Former Stasi Prisoner
Akira Yamada
as Self - Professor of History, Meiji University
Rafael Montalvo
as Self - Cuban Exile
Ada Ferrer
as Self - Author, Cuba: An American History
J. Samuel Walker
as Self - Author, Prompt and Utter Destruction
Humberto Arguelles
as Self - Cuban Exile
Bill Ober
as Self - U.S. Marine 1962 - 1968
Kazuhiko Togo
as Self - Grandson of Shigenori Tôgô
Becky Jenkins
as Self - Daughter of American Communists
Ukeru Magosaki
as Self - Head of Japan's Intelligence & Analysis Bureau 1997 - 1999
Daniel Biskup
as Self - West German Photographer
Rolf-Michael Turek
as Self - Leipzig Pastor 1984 - 1997
Howard A. Rodman
as Self - Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Gitanas Nauseda
as Self - President of Lithuania
Illia Ponomarenko
as Self - Ukrainian Journalist
Kingo Kawahara
as Self - Hiroshima Resident
Masaaki Takano
as Self - Hiroshima Resident
James L. Nolan Jr.
as Self - Author, Atomic Doctors
Fumio Kishida
as Self - Prime Minister of Japan
Dalton Trumbo
as Self - Screenwriter
Fred Trump
as Self - New York Real Estate Developer
J. Edward Bromberg
as Self - Actor
Herbert J. Biberman
as Self - Director & Screenwriter
Erich Honecker
as Self - East German Leader 1971 - 1989
Kim Philby
as Self - Head of British Intelligence in Washington, Soviet Double Agent
Stanislav Petrov
as Self - Soviet Air Defense Forces
Karl Marx
as Self - Political Theorist
Konstantin Chernenko
as Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1984 - 1985
Todor Zhivkov
as Self - Communist Leader of Bulgaria 1954 - 1989
Ethel Rosenberg
as Self - Atomic Spy
Klaus Fuchs
as Self - German Theoretical Physicist & Atomic Spy
Maxim Litvinov
as Self - Founding Member of the Bolsheviks
William Casey
as Self - CIA Director 1981 - 1987
James Forrestal
as Self - First Secretary of Defense 1947
Sabrina Singh
as Self - Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary
Vitaliy Rudenko
as Self - Ukrainian National Guard
John Hersey
as Self - Journalist
Jacobo Árbenz
as Self - President of Guatemala
David Greenglass
as Self - U.S. Machinist & Atomic Spy for Soviet Union
Vladimir Gusinsky
as Self - Owner of NTV
Anatoliy Chubays
as Self - Deputy Prime Minister of Russia 1994 - 1996
Nursultan Nazarbayev
as Self - President of Kazakhstan
John McCone
as Self - CIA Director
Friedrich Engels
as Self - Political Theorist
Yuri Shchekochikhin
as Self - Commissioner, 2002 Independent Bombing Investigation
Edward Gierek
as Self - Communist Leader of Poland 1970 - 1980
Wojciech Jaruzelski
as Self - Communist Leader of Poland 1981 - 1989
Anatoliy Sobchak
as Self - Mayor of St. Petersburg 1991 -1996
Joseph Alsop
as Self - New York Herald Tribune
Rene Schneider
as Self - Commander-In-Chief of the Chilean Army, Assassinated 1970
Ruth Greenglass
as Self - Wife of David Greenglass
Valentin Pavlov
as Self - Soviet Prime Minister
Kusti Salm
as Self - Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defense
Valeriy Gerasimov
as Self - Chief of General Staff of Russia
Leonid Kravchuk
as Self - President of Ukraine 1991 - 1994
Günter Schabowski
as Self - GDR Government Spokesman
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