If You Love This Planet

198225 min 50 secFilm: Documentary

G

Direction: Terre Nash

Production: Edward Le LorrainKathleen Shannon

This film records a lecture given to students by outspoken nuclear critic, Dr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility in the United States. Her message is clear: disarmament cannot be postponed. Archival film footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and images of its survivors seven months after the attack heighten the urgency of her message: namely, that unless we shake off our indifference and work to prevent nuclear war, we stand a slim chance of surviving the 20th century.

Subject categories


  • Women - Portraits > Health and IllnessSciencesSocial Issues
  • War, Conflict and Peace > Nuclear Age and the Cold WarPortraits
  • Social Studies > Canada in the World TodayContemporary Issues
  • Civics/Citizenship > Citizen ResponsibilitiesIdeologies
  • Science > Environmental Science
  • History > World War II

Credits


director
Terre Nash
editing
Terre Nash
producer
Edward Le Lorrain
executive producer
Kathleen Shannon
camera
André-Luc Dupont
Susan Trow
Don Virgo
sound
Jacques Drouin
sound editing
Jackie Newell
re-recording
Jean-Pierre Joutel
music
Karl Duplessis

Awards


  • Best Communications PrizeInternational Scientific Film Festival
  • Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Nuclear IssuesItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
  • Oscar - Category: Documentary Short SubjectsAnnual Academy Awards / OSCARS
  • Second Prize - Silver Boomerang accompanied with a Cash Awrd of $2,500AUSTInternational Film Festival
  • Certificate of MeritYorkton Film Festival
  • Highly commended by the Australian Teachers of Media AssociationA.T.O.M. Awards for Short Educational Films & Videos
  • Special Award given by the World Peace CouncilInternational Festival for Documentary and Animated Film