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Eight Minutes to Midnight (DVD) Email This Page
Filmmaker: Mary Benjamin
DVD - $ 95.00
Price listed includes Public Performance License.
This award-winning film tells the story of pediatrician, author, and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott and her struggle to inform and awaken the public to the medical dangers posed by nuclear power. It is also an inspiring drama of how one woman meets the demands of being wife, mother, physician and involved citizen. Filmed between 1978 and 1980, during a critical period of debate about the future of nuclear energy, this film presents a vivid portrait of a woman who became a key international figure in the movement for nuclear disarmament.

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Running time: 60 min, Year released: 2008
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: dvd
ISBN: 1-55974-236-4
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up

Academy Award Nomination
This title can also be found in: Academy Award Nominees, Biology & Biologists, Cold War, Ecology, Environmental, Feminism, Government, Health, History, Laws and Legal Issues, Medical Issues, Medicine & Medical Professionals, Motherhood, Nuclear Power & Nuclear War, Parenting, Politics, Pollution, U.S. Government, U.S. History, U.S.A., Women's Studies, Writers
 

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