Sputnik Mania Launches for Classrooms
David Hoffman's Sputnik Mania!
Status: Launched
Description: SPUTNIK MANIA is a fascinating, award-winning film by David Hoffman, based on Paul Dickson’s bestselling book Sputnik: The Shock of the Century. The film is being released to theatre and tv audiences by History (Channel) Films. Hoffman, has 40 years of movie-making experience, including over one hundred television specials and four feature documentaries. Actor Liev Schreiber narrates the film with his dramatic and instantly recognizable style of storytelling. The film leads us through the first year following the launch of Sputnik. In 1958, a nuclear weapon was tested in the atmosphere by either Russia or the United States every three days. By the end of that year, nothing was the same. Sputnik spurred us into an arms and space race, necessitating the creation of an academic army of scientists and engineers.
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