Watch Dennis Quaid's “Grid Down, Power Up”

Showings:

2:30am ET Monday, June 16th, 2025

Watch It Now: Available on Newsmax+,

It can happen: you’re lights go out and everyone’s lights go out.

A total and complete failure of the power grid.

It can happen because of natural or accidental events.

It can also happen because of an attack!

A terror attack . . . or an EMP nuclear detonation high over the atmosphere.

Now actor Dennis Quaid reveals the dangerous and imminent threat in the film “Grid Down, Power Up.”

This shocking film premieres on the Newsmax cable channel on Sunday, June 8, at 9 p.m. ET.

You need to watch it.

The program shows how a collapse of the power grid could be deadly -- and lead to life-threatening shortages of heat, food, and water if protective measures aren’t taken.

“This will be the next 9/11. This will be the next Pearl Harbor,” Quaid says, describing the level of catastrophe such an event could cause.

Besides physical and cyberattacks, the documentary addresses how the nation’s electrical infrastructure is susceptible to geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) and electromagnetic pulses (EMPs).

“A nuclear explosion (EMP) in the atmosphere above the United States could unleash a burst of invisible electrical energy that within a fraction of a second could wash over this country and overload all of our most sensitive devices,” Quaid explains.

Countries like Russia, Iran, China and North Korea are believed to be planning such an attack.

“We actually know that the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians have in their war plans the first strike plan to take out our electrical power system with an EMP attack,” a leading Texas official says.

“The power of an EMP is potentially devastating and it’s an open secret among nuclear-capable countries,” adds Quaid.

To illustrate the grid’s fragility, the documentary also examines the severe repercussions of a prolonged power outage.

This could lead to disruptions in heating, transportation, food supply chains, and water systems, while reviewing past blackout events.

Included are insights from Tommy Waller, president and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. Waller manages day-to-day operations of Secure the Grid Coalition.

The film advocates for concrete solutions to this dangerous threat.

President Trump is aware of the threat . . and has himself warned of the dangers.

As comedian George Carlin is quoted in the film, “You ever stop and realize how fragile all this is? It wouldn’t take much to throw us right back into barbaric times. All you’d have to do would be eliminate electricity.”