George Kennan: A Critical Voice

Streaming video - 1982

Drawing on a political career that began in the years leading up to WWII and spanned four decades after, the esteemed George Kennan speaks with earnest articulation about the mounting tensions of the Cold War. Kennan’s impressive credentials - he was a Pulitzer Prize winning diplomatic historian and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union - established him as the most respected American scholar of Soviet strategic policies. Filmed at the height of the US-Soviet arms race, this film highlights Kennan’s soft-spoken yet fervent opposition to US involvement in nuclear arms development and conveys his acute, globally versed sense of Soviet history and relations.