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"By Dawn's Early Light" is a 1990 made-for-television movie directed by Jack Sholder. The film portrays a fictional scenario in which a group of rogue Soviet military officers launch a nuclear attack. The story follows the efforts of the American president (played by Martin Landau) and his advisors to prevent an all-out nuclear war, while a group of US Air Force officers aboard a nuclear-armed bomber attempt to carry out a retaliatory strike against the Soviet Union. The movie stars Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, and Rip Torn. "By Dawn's Early Light" explores the dangers of nuclear war and the devastating consequences it could have on both nations.