TWILIGHT TIME (G) 89mins

TWILIGHT TIME: DESMOND BALL – THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD

Nominated ‘Best Documentary Broadcast and Exhibition’, Australian Writers Guild, 2025

Twilight Time looks at the life and work of Desmond Ball, (1947-2016), a barefooted academic from ‘down under’ who was hailed by Jimmy Carter as “the man who saved the world”, as he proved the fallacy of the doctrine of limited nuclear war.

Des gazed at spy bases around the world and worked out what they did and why.

His investigation of the controversial US military base Pine Gap during the ’80s enraged ASIO—which kept a security file on him.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ball offered guidance on signals intelligence in Burma and Thailand, and his work in East Timor revealed secrets the government would have preferred to keep hidden.

An important though under-acknowledged Australian, Des Ball died in October 2016.

He is remembered as the ‘Insurgent Intellectual’.

TWILIGHTTIMETHEFILM.COM.AU

In English.

(CTC) 89 mins.

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