When I was a kid in 1983,
The Day After was a made-for-TV movie that portrayed the advent of a nuclear World War III. It scared the crap out of literally everyone I knew and it seemed like a turning point. Where we had once talked about nuclear weapons as strategic negotiating chits, we began speaking of them as "never to be used" armaments that the world must eventually move away from. Maybe the changing public sentiment was reflected by the film, or maybe the film influenced the public sentiment. Either way, it was impactful.
Perhaps this documentary will have the impact that
An Inconvenient Truth was meant to have a decade ago, but for which we were just not yet prepared as a society. Hopefully we now are.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/tv/before-the-flood/