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January 1981 (USA) morePlot:
Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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All you sheep can march yourselves into the abyss... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Orson Welles | ... | Presenter / Narrator | |
| Philip L. Clarke | ... | Nostradamus (voice) | |
| Ray Laska | ... | The Warlord | |
| Bob Ruggiero | ... | French Soldier | |
| Roy Edmonds | ... | French Soldier | |
| Ray Chubb | ... | French Soldier | |
| Richard Butler | ... | Nostradamus | |
| Jason Nesmith | ... | Nostradamus, as a child | |
| Howard Ackerman | ... | Nostradamus, as a youth | |
| Brass Adams | ... | The Grandfather | |
| Terry Clotiaux | ... | Nostradamus' Father | |
| David Burke | ... | The Friar | |
| Bob Bigelow | ... | The Dinner Host | |
| Marji Martin | ... | The Maid | |
| Thor Nielsen | ... | The Cook |
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Although the movie gets many of its predictions of the future wrong (Ted Kennedy winning the 1984 Presidential election) some are very close, especially the speculation about a massive earthquake in California which the movie predicts will happen in 1988 but in fact happened in 1989. Also the movie predicts that America would be at war with the middle east and that the war would begin early in the 1990s and in fact, at the beginning of the decade the country was in the Persian Gulf War. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: Psychic Jeane Dixon's name is misspelled onscreen as "Jeanne Dixon". moreQuotes:
Presenter: [following World War III] After a peace for a thousand years, Nostradamus tells us next to nothing. He does, however, tell us in what year the world will finally come to an end - the year 3797. moreFAQ
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I saw this "documentary" on HBO in the early '80s when I was an impressionable youth. It, too, scared the hell out of me. But then I grew up, and realized that though history DOES repeat itself; it's only because blind human nature and ignorance leaves the steering-wheel to chance all too often...and the side-show master, Mr. N, was intelligent enough to realize this. It's far easier to open your ass to prophesy than to assert your will.
The fact that The History Channel deigned this hour of tripe as being worthy of airing astounds me. I would never imagine that a reputable outlet of education would broadcast this fantasy within a couple of months of the horrors of September 11, 2001. Perhaps the Jihadi have it right when they condemned us to death for being Godless (or is it Allahless?): we readily consume this freakish "entertainment" instead of respecting the sanctity of our dead. Hooray! I have something to pontificate about at the water-cooler on Monday! As if I had an education and some social bearing.
Then we have other morons who will spout the quatrains as fact. Like that idiot reporter in NYC on the DAY of the 9/11 attacks; with the smoldering wreckage of the WTC in the background, he quoted the fiction of Mr. N. I imagine this ass-lick was attempting to improve his career. Congratulations! I hear Santa and the Easter Bunny are plotting Apocalypse too. Next time, try to respect the slaughtered before manufacturing drama. I suppose it was all `inevitable' though.right?
If you have any respect in yourself, your fellow man, and free will; view this fiction for entertainment purposes only.
And please, PLEASE, shun the ignorant. In your heart, you know what need be done.