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If You Love This Planet
198225 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
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.
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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