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If You Love This Planet is a canadien film of genre Documentary released in USA on 1 october 1982

If You Love This Planet (1982)

If You Love This Planet
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Released in USA 1 october 1982
Length 26minutes
OriginCanada
Rating71% 3.5983353.5983353.5983353.5983353.598335

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. The movie 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.

Released during the term of the Reagan administration and at the height of Cold War nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, If You Love This Planet was officially designated as "foreign political propaganda" by the U.S. Department of Justice and suppressed in the United States. 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 appears that the first cinema showing of the film in Britain did not occur until April 2008, when it was screened by the London Socialist Film Co-op.



^ "CENSORED: Wielding the Red Pen (Online Exhibit)". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved 23 November 2013.

^ Verbinski, Jane (April 1983). "If You Love This Planet Gov't censors pick best short". Jump Cut (28): 64. Retrieved 23 November 2013.

^ "If You Love This Planet". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-12-01.

^ Matthew Hays, "Montreal Oscar Stories: Two of the city's award-winners reminisce" Montreal Mirror, March 21, 1997. Accessed 2008.12.18.
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