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The Man Who Saved the World (2012)

7 | Oct 22, 2012 (US) | Documentary, History, War | 00:53
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-man-who-saved-the-world-about-this-episode/871/
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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. Sanders
Narrator (voice)
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Alisdair Simpson
Narrator (voice)
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Leon Ockenden
Vasily Arkhipov
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Martin McDougall
Submarine Captain
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Vasili Arkhipov
Self (archive footage)
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Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
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John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
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Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)

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