A Glimpse of Hell is a drama film originally made for TV and was initially shown on the FX TV network. It was released in the United States on March 18, 2001. It was filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and stars James Caan, Robert Sean Leonard, and Daniel Roebuck. It was directed by Mikael Salomon. The film is based on the book A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up by Charles C. Thompson II about the 1989 turret exp...
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A Glimpse of Hell
Film
Directed by
Mikael Salomon
Mikael Salomon (born February 24, 1945 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish filmmaker, Oscar-nominated as cinematographer of The Abyss (1989) and Backdraft (1991), Emmy Award-winner as director of Band of Brothers (2001).
After a long cinematography career in Danish cinema, he went to Hollywood in...
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