If You Love This Planet

If You Love This Planet

Infobox Film
name = If You Love This Planet


caption =
director = Terre Nash
producer = Edward Le Lorrain
writer =
narrator =
starring =
music = Karl du Plessis
cinematography = André-Luc Dupont
Susan Trow
Don Virgo
editing =
distributor = National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
released = 1982
runtime = 26 min.
country = Canada
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/if-you-love-this-planet/
amg_id = 1:300477
imdb_id = 0084118

"If You Love This Planet" is a 1982 short documentary film recording a lecture given to SUNY Plattsburgh students by physician and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.

Released during the Reagan administration at the height of Cold War nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, the film was officially designated as "foreign political propaganda" by the U.S. Department of Justice. [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/censored/film.html] The subsequent uproar over that action gave the film a publicity boost; it went on to win the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.It is understood that the first cinema showing of the film in Britain was on the thirteenth April 2008 by the London Socialist Film Co-op at the Renior Cinema WC1. [http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1997/032097/film1.html] "If You Love This Planet" was directed by Terre Nash and produced by Edward Le Lorrain for Studio D, the women's studio of the National Film Board of Canada. "Studio D" head Kathleen Shannon was executive producer.

Book and radio program

Helen Caldicott later authored a book of the same name, "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth" (1992). In addition, Caldicott hosts a weekly radio program called "If You Love This Planet". Originating at Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM in New York City, the program focuses on the threats to human survival posed by nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and global warming.

External links

*imdb title|id=0084118|title=If You Love This Planet
*amg title|id=1:300477|title=If You Love This Planet
* [http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/if-you-love-this-planet/ Watch online at NFB site]
* [http://www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org If You Love This Planet Radio Program]


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