National Geographic: American Blackout

This is a great movie although chances are if there’s a emp we would realistically be with out power for multiple months but the scenarios they have are really interesting . Worth the purchase .

Great product, will help the viewer to be more prepared for what is coming to not just our country, but world wide!We could have an EMP and we would never recover from it, we should all read the book"one Second After" and realize that we have so little time to prepare for what is just around the corner.Keep the DVD'S coming, they are a God send. [email protected]

Fairly realistic to show how quickly people would turn into animals if they didn't have access to things we take for granted like groceries, water, power etc. Also shows how un-prepared some people are these days. An excellent watch if you want to see what COULD happen and maybe open your eyes to some things that you are not ready for.And for God's sake no one should buy $17 an ounce swordfish...... bloody rich whiners :)

Excellent movie. Government knows about EMPand cyber attack but refuses to do anything to prepare for it. Refuses to inform citizens! Only thing that wasn’t realistic was other nations coming to our rescue. We will be on our own for quite a while.

It's worth a look for educational purposes and it drives home the point of assuming some personal responsibility for one's own safety and security. I can't remember how many times I've turned on the news and some unfortunate family is talking to a news reporter about how suddenly the (insert natural disaster here) had taken them by surprise and how unprepared they were to deal with it's aftermath. What always strikes me as odd is the disasters are usually the ones that come around every year on the east coast, they're periodic, fairly common and anyone who watches the news on a fairly regular basis would know about these things days, hours or minutes in advance.Power outages are pretty common, you would think people would prepare ahead of time for the occasional outage. Emergency light sources, keeping extra canned goods on hand (many other storage methods), storing extra water and not just relying on the tap, keeping a comprehensive first aid kit and any specialty medicines in good supply. As for personal security, it's up to you (your choice). Finally, communications other than your smart phone which becomes pretty dumb very fast in such times, again many different choices here also, HAM radio comes to mind.American Blackout is a call to action for personal preparedness in the event of a cyber attack against the American power grid, it's educational, thought provoking and tries to wake people up to their need to take a little responsibility for there own safety in such events. Four stars!

My favorite line in the movie was when a NY couple who was stranded in their high rise apt voiced her appeal by saying "Why aren't they helping us?" It clearly is the mindset that govt or other entities will always exits in a crisis. Something of this magnitude, when the whole nation is dark, spells disaster for those unprepared for the duration. People always think we will have police protection 24/7 or that food banks, grocery stores and pharmacies have limitless supplies on hand. The way people think in this day and age with all the entitlements and false belief in their own self- importance will suffer the most. History and human nature never change not matter how civilized we think we have become. Get this movie, show it to you family and friends and then think of ways to endure through a crisis, because it is not far fetched. Think of the collapse of the financial system in this country, which is very likely considering what we have done with out of control spending. It is more than likely going to happen--what are you going to do???

I bought this because my husband was not home when they aired it on the Nat GEO channel, and I was unable to record it. I told him about it and he wanted to see it. It is an interesting fictionalized depiction of what might happen if the entire power grid went down in the USA for ten days. It really makes you think about making some preparations in case of such an event.

The movie is great for what the subject is, but my biggest criticism is in the realism and how everyone acts in this. How smart do you have to be to realize the ATM and gas pump don't work without power? Why does a doomsday prepper have a normal farmhouse and single barbed wire fence (with neighbors!)? How does a guy (whose 6 ft) not tell the difference between 5 ft and 20 ft?! And how does a parent not smell smoke nor see a fire ten feet from them and it requires a child to alert them to the danger??!! You see the irony? This movie could convince me if the acting was better!