The Survivalists

United Kingdom, 1982

TV show
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Episode of Series “Tuesday Documentary”.
Over two million Americans are preparing themselves for some form of major disaster - nuclear war, imminent social breakdown, unavailability of food or even world wide cataclysm. This program, filmed all over the U.S., looks at the ‘survivalists’ who are leaving the cities for the country and the desert.

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Credits

producer

Paul Hamann

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1982

Appears in

Tuesday Documentary

Group of items

Tuesday Documentary

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015768

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Survival skills

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Disasters

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Disasters

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Survival skills

History → Disasters

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Survival skills

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Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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