The Man Who Saved the World

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.

Release Date: 2012-10-22

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Official website: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-man-who-saved-the-world-about-this-episode/871/

Casts

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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