In the Cold War years of the 1970s, an American patrol boat meets a Soviet ship off the east coast of the United States for talks about fishing rights in the Atlantic. In the midst of this, while Russian commanders are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard vessel where the talks are being held, a Lithuanian sailor jumps across the ten feet of icy water separating the boats. Crash-landing on the deck of the American ship, he desperately begs for asylum. Though they try, the Americans ultimately fail to provide protection and the Soviets are allowed to capture him and brutally return him to their vessel. Thus begins a stranger-than-fiction story of imprisonment, discovery, fame, and freedom. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic first-person re-enactment of that fateful day by Simas Kudirka, the would-be defector himself, this tale of one of the biggest Cold War muddles takes us on a journey of uncanny twists of fate, and the emotional sacrifices of becoming a universal symbol of freedom.
107 Mothers
Drama, Documentary
6.1
The Man with the Golden Gun
Adventure, Action, Thriller
6.4
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Western
8.5
GoodFellas
Drama, Crime
8.5
My Friends Act II
Comedy
7.6
Sunset Boulevard
Drama
8.3
For Your Eyes Only
Adventure, Action, Thriller
6.5
Amadeus
History, Music, Drama
8.0
Florence Fight Club
Comedy, Drama
7.5
Reservoir Dogs
Crime, Thriller
8.1
Double Indemnity
Crime, Thriller
8.1
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Comedy, War
8.1
The Little Devil
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
6.7
This Is Spinal Tap
Music, Comedy
7.4
Cape Fear
Crime, Thriller
7.3
Fight Club
Drama
8.4
North by Northwest
Mystery, Thriller, Adventure
8.0
Casino
Crime, Drama, History
8.0
Saving Private Ryan
Drama, History, War
8.2
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
8.1
My Favorite War
Animation, Documentary, History
6.7
Risk
Documentary
0.0
Die kalten Ringe
Documentary, TV Movie
0.0
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française
Documentary, TV Movie, History
8.0
Theatre of Hope
Documentary
0.0
Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Documentary, History, War, TV Movie
7.7
Täuschung - Die Methode Reagan
Documentary
9.0
K-19: Doomsday Submarine
Documentary
0.0
The Wall
Documentary
7.0
Ubåt! En till sannolikhet gränsande visshet
Documentary
0.0
MK Ultra
Music, Documentary, History
10.0
Ice-Breaker: The '72 Summit Series
Documentary, History
0.0
Your Neighbour's Son
Documentary
0.0
Borderless
Documentary
6.9
The Real Losers Of The US-China Trade War
Documentary
0.0
Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin
Documentary
8.7
Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte
Documentary
0.0
Gander International: The Airport in the Middle of Nowhere
Documentary
10.0
The Atomic Cafe
Documentary, History
7.3
CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
Documentary
0.0