When a technical fault sends bombers to Moscow, the president must convince an enemy the attack was a mistake.

Longer logline

When an electronic failure sends a wing of nuclear bombers past their fail-safe point with orders they cannot be talked out of, in a world where the crews are trained to ignore any voice recalling them as an enemy trick, a president alone in a basement with a translator must persuade the Soviet premier that it is an accident, before he has to offer something unthinkable to prove it.

Film: Fail Safe · Writer(s): Walter Bernstein · Director: Sidney Lumet · Year: 1964