Windscale 1957: The Nuclear Winter

January. 01,1996      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In October 1957, one of the Windscale nuclear reactors caught fire. It was the world's first nuclear accident, attributed to the rush to build atomic weapons. This programme highlights the mistakes leading to a nuclear event which, 40 years on, still takes second place only to Chernobyl.

Tim Pigott-Smith as  Self - Narrator (voice)

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Reviews

Comwayon
1996/01/01

A Disappointing Continuation

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Huievest
1996/01/02

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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FirstWitch
1996/01/03

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Stephan Hammond
1996/01/04

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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