Seventeen apparently healthy adults (23 to 42 years of age) watched 30 minutes of a comedy or a documentary (control) on separate days (crossover design).
Eric Schlosser is the author of "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety," from 2013, and a producer of the documentary "Command and Control," from 2016.
Sturman died in a Kentucky prison in 1997... View Article Eric Schlosser is the author of "Command and Control Nuclear Weaponss, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety," from 2013, and a producer of the documentary "Command and Control," from 2016.
In a new documentary Command and Control, filmmakers Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser make a compelling case about a potential disaster that few are talking about, illustrated by the story of the Titan II near miss in 1980 in Damascus, Arkansas.
The documentary or Control?
If possible, view the documentary "The Control Room" by Jehane Noujaim, and include references to the documentary in your comparison of Al Jazeera and the Fox Network.
Directed by Jehane Noujaim, the documentary, "The Control Room," not only won the top prize in the festival, co-sponsored by The New York Times; it also took the Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award and second prize in the Seeds of War category, The Associated Press reported.
That event also inspired Gus Van Sant's film Elephant, the Palme d'Or winner in 2002, and sparked Michael Moore's gun control documentary Bowling for Columbine.
Last week, nearly 200 people came to Saint Sabina, a church in Auburn Gresham, for the Chicago premiere of a new gun control documentary, Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA.
Dutiful in outlook and utterly conventional in format, this film is an Academy Award contender despite its clear inferiority to such non-nominees as "East Side Story" and "Sick," not to mention Errol Morris's visionary "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control". Documentary filmmaking loses the respect it deserves when such a pedantic specimen is rewarded at the expense of truly imaginative work.
This conversation, though more familiar in terms of violence, is not new: "Neighbors," nor any film that's not a gun-control documentary, certainly doesn't work to remedy the prevalence of mass shootings.
