Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Sputnik declassified [videorecording] / a Nova production by Lone Wolf Documentary Group for WGBH/Boston ; produced by Rushmore DeNooyer and Kirk Wolfinger ; written and directed by Rushmore DeNooyer.

Publisher, Date:

[Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, [2008]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

On October 4, 1957, the space age dawned with the red hue of the Communist flag when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite. Sputnik stunned the world and spurred the U.S. into massive spending on science education and innovation. Fierce political and personal rivalries collided over how and when the U.S. should enter space. President Eisenhower wanted a satellite to spy on the Russians but feared their response to an overtly military program. That led him to sideline the plans of Wernher von Braun, the leader of the U.S. Army's pioneering rocket team.

Subjects:

Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.

Space race -- Soviet Union.

Space race -- United States.

Artificial satellites.

Television programs.

Documentary television programs.

Television programs for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

United States -- History -- 1953-1961.

Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985.