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Baiting the Bear (1996)

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Film details

Featuring

Michael Pennington Joel Cutrara
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1996
Type

Television
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

Investigation into how close the world came to a nuclear war in the 1960s. Looks at evidence that between 1948 and 1964 Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power, who controlled the nuclear bombers of US Strategic Air Command, built up a huge nuclear arsenal and made plans for a US first strike called "preventative action" without presidential knowledge. It claims they tried to provoke the USSR into a nuclear strike with over-flights of US spy planes. Also considers the war mentality and state of minds of LeMay and other top American generals of the time and the Cuban missile crisis.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - narrator
    
    Michael Pennington
  - Voices
    
    Joel Cutrara
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Michael Stewart
  - Production Company
    
    Brook Associates
  - Commissioning Company
    
    BBC
  - Commissioning Company
    
    Arts and Entertainment Network
  - Executive Producer
    
    Phillip Whitehead
  - Producer
    
    Paul Lashmar
  - Assistant Producer
    
    Paul Cole
  - Series Editor
    
    Laurence Rees
  - Production Manager
    
    Jayne Rowe
  - Production Assistant
    
    Elaine Goodwin
  - Archive Research
    
    Alf Penn
  - Japan Research
    
    Reiko Sakuma
  - Moscow Research
    
    Tanya Rachmanova
  - Researcher
    
    James Oliver
  - Camera
    
    Mark Molesworth
  - Camera
    
    Ray Brislin
  - Editor
    
    Gerry Branigan
  - On-line Editor
    
    Peter Neil
  - Music
    
    Howard Davidson
  - Sound
    
    Andrew Yarme
  - Dubbing mixer
    
    Matt Skilton

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