A dizzying shot of cold war rocket fuel. Excellently told, marvelous stock footage, more than enough propaganda parallels to today. Tied with Cloverfield as best new movie of ’08, and a rare case of the movie being better than the book.
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I wonder if this is the same thing I saw today. I’m at a convention in Boston, and they had a pavilion showing a doc about Sputnik, along with the centerpiece of the exhibit: one of the actual Sputnik satellites. It was actually larger than I expected. (I assume this particular one was not shot into space.)
I’m definitely going to see this film when I get back in town.
And the answer is yes, they are currently here at the National Science Teacher’s convention. (Don’t ask why I’m here… suffice to say it’s work-related.)