01 Jan 2021
Shadow in the Cloud
A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
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.
Top Billed Cast
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)
Никита Хрущёв Self (archive footage)
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