Director and co-writer Robert Kenner’s account of a narrowly avoided — through sheer good luck — nuclear missile disaster on U.S. soil in 1980. But while there is genuine tragedy and just frustration at the military’s behavior before, during, and after the crisis caused by a dropped wrench and a subsequent fuel leak, it gets overshadowed by an overemphasis on the explosions that did and did not quite happen, and by an attachment to dramatic re-creation that fuzzes up the factual narrative. And also, alas, by a preference for doomful proclamations and atmospheric utterances over particulars, details, facts. There’s an important story to tell here, one about the risks created by the very people and things we employ to keep us secure, but not enough to fill the 92-minute runtime. (2016) — Matthew Lickona