A chilling look into the US’s nuclear program and the mental states of those directly in control of these weapons.

| Aug 1, 2023

Meticulously crafted and deeply disturbing, Command and Control is as riveting as any fictional thriller - more so because of its chilling implications for the future.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2019

These are the things of which nightmares are made.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 28, 2018

A film that's as close to a white-knuckle thrill ride as talking head documentaries will probably ever get.

| Aug 28, 2018

Survivors give gripping accounts of events, while journalist Eric Schlosser (on whose book the documentary is based) explains that the risks of an accidental nuclear-weapon explosion have always been much higher than we imagined.

| Aug 2, 2018

(PODCAST) This well researched and expertly executed documentary is essential viewing for understanding a potentially world-ending pervasive threat facing America.

| Original Score: A+ | Aug 17, 2017

Command and Control is one heck of a deadly doomsday scenario.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2017

Robert Kenner's compelling and tense documentary Command and Control... looks at the danger arguably more basic and constant than that of nuclear war in the mere deployment of nuclear weapons in supposedly safe stateside locations.

| Dec 9, 2016

Command and Control is a gripping account of what happens when things don't "work perfect" at a nuclear-weapons site.

| Oct 24, 2016

The film uses a minute-by-minute account to the Damascus incident as the backbone of a story about what can happen when human beings are expected to perform even simple tasks perfectly 100 percent of the time.

| Original Score: 88/100 | Oct 23, 2016

A suitable subject for a nail-biter fictional thriller, but it's a documentary.

| Oct 14, 2016

Sleep well, America!

| Oct 13, 2016

As a child, I worried about nuclear war. It never occurred to me that I should have been worried about a nuclear accident.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2016

Morbid, apocalyptic yet enthralling.

| Oct 12, 2016

The statistical probability of a nuclear accident increases every moment. Humankind has been lucky so far, which Command and Control makes poignantly clear.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2016

"Command and Control" may not be overwhelming work, but as a critical reminder of the fallibility of men around doomsday devices, it's terrifying.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 6, 2016

The inescapable conclusion is that we have more to fear from our own human error than from our enemies' malevolence.

| Oct 6, 2016

There's an important story to tell here, one about the risks created by the very people and things we employ to keep us secure, but not enough to fill the 92-minute runtime.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 5, 2016

The meat of Kenner's story is the heroics of the Air Force technicians who risked their lives. It adds a personal touch that immensely humanizes a story that could easily get lost in the minutia.

| Original Score: B | Sep 30, 2016

A terrifying documentary that'll have your heart racing as fast as any Hollywood thriller, Kenner's film reveals that, due to a range of errors and accidents, we were very close, more than once, to detonating a nuke on our own soil.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2016