Full Cast & Crew
Directed by
| Tessa Coombs | ||
Cast (in credits order)
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
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Harold Agnew | ... | Self |
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Jean Asam | ... | Self |
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Arkadi Brish | ... | Self |
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Boris Chertok | ... | Self |
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Sergei Davydov | ... | Self |
| Andrew Goodpaster | ... | Self (as Gen. Andrew Goodpaster) | |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Senator Hubert Humphrey) | |
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Marty Knutson | ... | Self |
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Khionia Kraskina | ... | Self |
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Valentin Larionov | ... | Self (as Maj. Gen. Valentin Larionov) |
| Robert McNamara | ... | Self | |
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Georgi Mikhajlov | ... | Self (as Lt. Gen. Georgi Mikhailov) |
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Galina Mishina | ... | Self |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Joseph Rotblat | ... | Self |
| Bertrand Russell | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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German Titov | ... | Self (as Gierman Titov) |
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Oleg Troyanovski | ... | Self |
| Harry S. Truman | ... | Self (archive footage) (as President Harry S. Truman) | |
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Roy Welch | ... | Self |
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Lincoln White | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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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) | |
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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) | |
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Igor Kurchatov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Laika | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Georgi Malenkov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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Mitrofan Nedelin | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Richard Nixon | ... | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
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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 |
