Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War

Turning Point: The Bomb And The Cold War is a 2024 American nine-part docuseries created for Netflix and directed by Brian Knappenberger. It was released on March 12, 2024.

Reception

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of film and television critics' reviews were positive, based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 7.0/10. Dan Einav of The Financial Times states, "Unlike Oppenheimer, the series looks beyond those who actively shaped seismic events to those helplessly caught in history." Ed Power of The Daily Telegraph calls it, "a nine-part documentary series about the Cold War uses Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film as a convenient springboard."
In an aberrant review excluded from Rotten Tomatoes, Noah Rothman of the conservative American magazine National Review, dubs it, "The Worst Cold War Documentary Ever Made".