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The Man Who Saved the World
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The Man Who Saved the World

2012
Directed byNick Green
0h 53m

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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Jay O. SandersNarrator (voice)Alisdair SimpsonNarrator (voice)Leon OckendenVasily Arkhipov

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Vasili ArkhipovSelf (archive footage)
Fidel CastroSelf (archive footage)
John F. KennedySelf (archive footage)
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