Directed by
Tessa Coombs |
Cast (in credits order)
Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Harold Agnew | ... | Self | |
Jean Asam | ... | Self | |
Arkadi Brish | ... | Self | |
Boris Chertok | ... | Self | |
Sergei Davydov | ... | Self | |
Andrew Goodpaster | ... | Self (as Gen. Andrew Goodpaster) | |
Hubert H. Humphrey | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Senator Hubert Humphrey) | |
Marty Knutson | ... | Self | |
Khionia Kraskina | ... | Self | |
Valentin Larionov | ... | Self (as Maj. Gen. Valentin Larionov) | |
Robert McNamara | ... | Self | |
Georgi Mikhajlov | ... | Self (as Lt. Gen. Georgi Mikhailov) | |
Galina Mishina | ... | Self | |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Joseph Rotblat | ... | Self | |
Bertrand Russell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
German Titov | ... | Self (as Gierman Titov) | |
Oleg Troyanovski | ... | Self | |
Harry S. Truman | ... | Self (archive footage) (as President Harry S. Truman) | |
Roy Welch | ... | Self | |
Lincoln White | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Herbert York | ... | Self | |
Nikolai Bulganin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
John Foster Dulles | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Mamie Eisenhower | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Klaus Fuchs | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Yuri Gagarin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Andrei Gromyko | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Jacqueline Kennedy | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
John F. Kennedy | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Nikita Khrushchev | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Igor Kurchatov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Laika | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Georgi Malenkov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Vyacheslav Molotov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Mitrofan Nedelin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Richard Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Francis Gary Powers | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
Wernher von Braun | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Produced by
Jody Gottlieb | ... | line producer |
Isobel Hinshelwood | ... | associate producer |
Jeremy Isaacs | ... | executive producer |
Richard Melman | ... | producer |
Pat Mitchell | ... | executive producer |
Martin Smith | ... | series producer |
Sound Department
Mark Owen | ... | sound editor |
Camera and Electrical Department
Ian Murray | ... | sparks rigger (as Ian Vincent Murray) |
Additional Crew
Milica Budimir | ... | production coordinator |
Svetlana Palmer | ... | researcher |
Miriam Walsh | ... | archive research |