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Remote Control War

Item number (ISN):

475460

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2011

Item number (ISN):

475460

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN TELEVISION FUND

Accession:

2012-0039

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2011

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

Director/writer, Leif Kaldor; producer/writer, Leslea Mair; photography, Ian Rogers; editing, Dean Evans; music, Jack Semple

Current distributor:

cn

Description:

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Robots that kill. In the movies, this scenario is presented as a future in which things have gone terribly wrong. But, as revealed in the new Zoot Pictures documentary Remote Control War, such robots are no longer science fiction. From today's CIA drone strikes to the next generation of armed autonomous robot swarms, killer robots are about to change our world. The question chillingly posed in Remote Control War is how this shift will affect not only warfare.but mankind. Robotic war is already here. Every evening in Indian Springs, Nevada, an hour outside of Las Vegas, a group of ordinary-looking men and women say goodbye to their families and go to war. They fight insurgents in Afghanistan and on the mountainous borders of Pakistan. They watch, they bomb, and they kill. Sometimes their vehicles crash, but the pilots always go home to their families in the morning. They are remote control warriors. Remote Control War illustrates how warfare is being revolutionized in a monumental shift unlike anything in our human history. The current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan exemplify the world's first Robotic War. The American robotic fleet, almost non-existent when the US and its allies invaded Iraq in 2003, has today grown to number 7,000 robots in the air and 12,000 others on the ground. Some 43 other countries, including Canada, are now using robots in combat. Military robots are appealing: they save soldiers' lives avoiding the negative publicity of planes repeatedly returning home with flag-shrouded coffins. But, as Remote Control War shows us, today's drones and robot tanks are like "the first horseless carriage" compared to new generations of robots already being developed. Robot warriors will soon move beyond taking directions - they will become autonomous, acting independently. Surveillance and other non-lethal tools will be turned into attack weapons, as the military reconfigures today's R2-D2 and C-3PO into RoboCop and Terminator. We see in the film how thisis already happening. <43mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Developed with the participation of SaskFilm and Video Development Corporation and the CBC.~2. Produced with the participation of the Canada Media Fund.~3. Produced with the participation of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.~4. Produced with the participation of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit.~5. Produced by Zoot Pictures in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.~6. Synopsis taken from the CBC website at URL: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/remote-control-war

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

864947

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

36162AV

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

43:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1125944

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

475460.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

36162AV

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1125945

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

475460.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

36162AV

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Docbot Films Inc., 2011

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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