Fifty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Sputnik into space, the reverberations of that historical event are still echoing around the world. Produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of this defining moment in human history, this documentary from filmmaker David Hoffman ...more
MPAA Rating: G | Year: 2007 | Running Time: 87 minutes
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$22.99SPUTNIK MANIA (2PC) / (AMAR)
At first glance, Sputnik Mania seems somewhat similar to The Atomic Cafe (1982), offering a frequently humorous, eye-opening, and sobering look at 1950s America, its fears, and its political delusions. But that earlier movie -- fine as it was -- at some level functioned as a snarky and highly ideological laugh-fest over '50s Americana, with some more-than-implied barbs at the contemporary Reagan administration's confrontational nuclear policy; and as a consequence, it is as dated today as the ...more
- David Hoffman - Director
- Jay Walker - Executive Producer
- David McKillop - Executive Producer
- John Vincent Barrett - Producer
- David Hoffman - Producer
- Eric A. Reid - Producer
- Paul Dickson - Screenwriter
- Lindsey Palatino - Screenwriter
- David Hoffman - Screenwriter
- Paul Dickson - Book Author
- John Vincent Barrett - Editor
- Greg Ephraim - Cinematographer
- Shaun Varney - Sound Effects Editor
- Irina Sanchez - Translator








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