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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The man who saved the world / a Bedlam Production for Thirteen in association with WNET and Channel 1 Russia ; director, writer, producer, Nick Green.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : PBS Distribution, [2012]

Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

This film explores the dramatic and little-known events that unfolded inside a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. While politicians sought a solution to the stand-off, Vasili Arkhipov, an officer aboard the submarine, refused to fire a nuclear torpedo, thus averting disaster.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Series:

WGBY DVD Collection

Subjects:

Arkhipov, Vasili, 1926-1998.

Submariners -- Russia.

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Nuclear submarines -- Soviet Union.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Historical television programs.

Other Author:

Green, Nick (Director), director, producer, screenwriter.

Sanders, Jay O., 1953- narrator.

PBS Distribution (Firm)

Bedlam Productions.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Channel 1 (Russia)

Other Title:

Secrets of the dead (Television program)

Notes:

Executive producers, Simon Breen, Steve Burns, Stephen Segaller ; editors, Matt Lowe, Edward Goldberg, Mark Sutton ; director of photography, Paul Jenkins ; cast, Leon Ockenden, Martin McDougall, Lachlan McCall, Simon Jones, Shonn Gregory, Michael Koltes.

Narrator, Jay O. Sanders.

Originally broadcast by PBS Oct. 23, 2012.

DVD; widescreen; stereo.; region 1.

Closed-captioned in English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

9781608837885

1608837882

9786314863876 : DVD

6314863872 : DVD

Publisher Number:

SEDE6121

Other Number: