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Plot. In 1991, dissident officials in the Soviet Union launch a nuclear missile at Donetsk from a site in NATO member Turkey. Soviet automated defense systems, believing that a NATO attack is in progress, execute a measured launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the United States.
By Dawn’s Early Light is an American television movie, produced by the HBO cable television network and broadcast for the first time in 1990. It stars Powers Boothe as Major Cassidy, Rebecca de Mornay as Captain Moreau and James Earl Jones as their commanding general.
A group of rogue agents in the Soviet military steal a nuclear missile and launch it at Ukraine from Turkey, tricking the USSR into a full-on counterattack against the West. Before the missiles land the mistake is discovered, but the American President's generals urge him to launch a counterattack.
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between...
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- Jack Sholder
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- Powers Boothe
May 19, 1990 · By Dawn's Early Light is a 1990 television film directed by Jack Sholder. The narrative unfolds around a nuclear crisis and the ensuing geopolitical turmoil. Powers Boothe and Rebecca De Mornay star as pilots tasked with a crucial mission in a tense standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. Halle Berry and James Earl Jones also ...
May 19, 1990 · A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust.
By Dawn's Early Light: Directed by Jack Sholder. With Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau. A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates.
