No Place to Hide is made up of the vintage films, newsreels, cartoons and television programmes (many featuring celebrities) which attempted to sell Americans on family (and later public) fallout shelters. Russia had the atomic bomb and schoolchildren were told by classroom films that they could save themselves from annihilation by ducking beneath their desks. The narration, spoken by Martin Sheen, recreates the nightmares of a child growing up in those Cold War times from Hiroshima to Cuban Missile Crisis.