The Man Who Saved the World

53m
DocumentaryHistoryWar
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction.

Cast

Jay O. Sanders
Narrator (voice)
Alisdair Simpson
Narrator (voice)
Leon Ockenden
Vasily Arkhipov
Martin McDougall
Submarine Captain
Vasili Arkhipov
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)

Crew

Nick Green
Director, Writer

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