From Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning director Robert Kenner, comes Command and Control, the long-hidden story of a deadly accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas in 1980. Based on the critically-acclaimed book by Eric Schlosser, this chilling documentary exposes the terrifying truth about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal and shows what can happen when the weapons built to protect us threaten to destroy us.

Filmed in a decommissioned Titan II missile silo in Arizona, the documentary features the minute-by-minute accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were on the scene that night. Command and Control reveals the unlikely chain of events that caused the accident and the feverish efforts to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States – a warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

In addition to his work as an assistant editor on the creative side of the editorial team, Ryan used his cinematography skills and extensive knowledge of post-production workflows to aid an extensive week-long reenactment shoot that relied heavily on unique camera systems and shooting styles to seamlessly integrate these reenactments with archival footage. The result is a gripping experience that provides the viewer with the sense of an extremely close proximity to the events.