George Kennan: A Critical Voice (1982)

Drawing on a political career that began in the years leading up to WWII and spanned four decades after, the esteemed George Kennan speaks with earnest articulation about the mounting tensions of the Cold War. Kennan's impressive credentials, he was a Pulitzer Prize winning diplomatic historian and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union - established him as the most respected American scholar of Soviet strategic policies, a distinction which becomes quickly validated as he shares thoughts on a moment in World history that he felt left us perched on a "razor's edge of precariousness." Filmed at the height of the US-Soviet arms race, "George Kennan: A Critical Voice", highlights Kennan's soft-spoken yet fervent opposition to US involvement in nuclear arms development and conveys his acute, globally versed sense of Soviet history and relations. This hour-long feature concisely captures the insights of a man whose informed critical lens on his country, is as apparent as his deep patriotic love for it.