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Special Bulletin (1983)
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
Style:
bad ending, psychological, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
found footage, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, nuclear, nuclear war, nuclear explosion, terrorism, president, disaster, u.s. president, nuclear bomb, witch, cold war, world war three, atomic bomb, nuclear threat, news report, post nuclear, bombing, world war, anti war, journalism, heroes, hostage, hijacking ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south carolina, usa, charleston south carolina, american
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Duration: 82 min.
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Duration: 86 min.
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Audience:
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Place:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA, UK
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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