- HD 1080
- Runtime: 103m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Edward Zwick
- Stars: Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart, Christopher Allport, David Clennon
- keywords: terrorism, nuclear, found footage
- Production_studio: NBC, Ohlmeyer Communications Company
- The Special Bulletin is featured in the top rankings of 1983
- #32 in Top Drama Movies of 1983
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.