Coming Soon to
Alice Springs Cinema
Coming Soon to
Alice Springs Cinema
TWILIGHT TIME is a gripping profile of one of the world's greatest scholars of military strategy and defence, the Australian Professor Desmond Ball - The man who unflinchingly examined cold war nuclear strategy and advocated for the sovereign defence of Australia.
Hailed by President Jimmy Carter as ‘The Man Who Saved The World’ for his work proving the fallacy of ‘Limited Nuclear War’, Des Ball is the ‘Insurgent Intellectual ‘ whose life-long investigation of US Military base Pine Gap enraged Australia’s Defence establishment. Ball’s activism against the war in Vietnam earned him decades of ASIO surveillance. His work on Australia’s complicity with the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 exposed what Governments prefer to keep hidden. TWILIGHT TIME is a rich and timely look at Australia’s involvement in US global strategy, defence policy and mass surveillance.
Veteran Documentarian John Hughes captures the heated atmosphere of late-20th-century geopolitics through a distinctly Australian lens.