The Man Who Saved the World

8.0 2012 53 min
Documentary History War

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.

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Director
Nick Green
Writer
Nick Green

Cast

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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)

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