
Watch Sputnik Mania
- NR
- 2007
- 1 hr 32 min
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7.4 (124)
Fifty Years ago, the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union started the great space race. It also almost started World War III and global nuclear disaster. This documentary explores, through recently released documents of the former Soviet Union government, how a private agreement between two ex-generals stopped a potential catastrophe of global scale, and shows just how close we came to the end of the world.