The Man Who Saved the World

Status:
Released
Production:
Aired:
2012-10-22
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.
Documentary
History
War
Characters

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)