Thursday, Oct 25, 2012 - 12:00 AM
"The Man Who Saved The World"
This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians and other officials desperately seek a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, averting disaster. The program combines tense drama with eyewitness accounts and expert testimony about this critical event during the Cold War. G
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