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Boston Premiere 7 PM Sunday March 30
Stealing the Fire:
The Secret Story of Iraq and the Bomb

 
 







USA. 2002, 95 minutes, color, video
Directors: John Friedman and Eric Nadler






Centerpiece - Human Rights Watch Film Festival--Lincoln Center, New York, 2002

Distinguished Documentary Award--International Documentary Association, 2002

Nominee - Best Documentary--National Film Board of Canada, 2002

This incredible documentary is a real-life espionage thriller which traces Saddam Hussein's nuclear program back to the Nazi atomic bomb project. The film focuses on a German spy who sold secret nuclear blueprints to Iraq and a German corporation that hid Nazi gold and later supplied Iraq and Pakistan with atomic weapons materials.

Guest: Filmmaker John Friedman

Sponsor: Facing History and Ourselves and The American Jewish Committee

 

   

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