Special Bulletin (1983)
1h 43m | PG-13
An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.
Director: Edward Zwick
Studio: NBC
Genre: TV Movie, Drama
Video: 720p
Cast
Ed Flanders
as John Woodley
Kathryn Walker
as Susan Myles
Roxanne Hart
as Megan 'Meg' Barclay
Christopher Allport
as Steven Levitt
David Clennon
as Dr. Bruce Lyman
David Rasche
as Dr. David McKeeson
Reviews
A worryingly realistic docudrama about a group of terrorists who want to force Nuclear weapons to be disarmed by threatening to explode one themselves.