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Survivalists

Millions of Americans aim to live through what they foresee as an inevitable disaster be that nuclear war, earthquake or social collapse. (1982)

Millions of Americans are determined to live through what they foresee as an inevitable nuclear war. Others are heading for camps in the remote back-country to escape the chaos of an impending political or economic cataclysm.

They sing hymns, chant psalms of war, preach the survival of the fittest and arm themselves to the teeth. They are the Survivalists....

This film talks to women training with machine guns, to undergraduates taking courses in How to Stay Alive, to retired generals who run schools for mercenary killers, and to self-appointed clergy who say their native America has 'gone soft on the Devil and the Reds' and has become a 'Disneyland for Dummies'. (1982)

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50 minutes

大象传媒 Four's Culture Shockers Collection

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Writer Paul Hamann
Producer Paul Hamann

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