"Peace and profit."
Dark animation examining the thin line between human definitions of war and peace. Part of Sweet Disaster; a 1986 series of short films made for Channel 4. It consists of “animated visions of the apocalypse”.
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The people behind it
Tony Robinson
Speaker (voice)
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