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Sean Smith - The Hunt for Red October: The True Story (2009)

In 1984 Tom Clancy published his bestseller, The Hunt for Red
October. The book, and the 1989 film starring Sean Connery, depicted the hijacking of a Russian nuclear submarine by a Soviet captain determined to defect to the West. Clancy's book had its roots in an uprising on the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy, or Sentry, in November 1975. Unlike the movie captain portrayed by Sean Connery, this maverick sought to cause a revolution in his own land and almost sparked a war in the process.

The mutiny was instigated by Political Officer Valery Sablin, a
disgruntled second-in-command, who had grown unhappy with corruption in the Soviet state. He saw the party elite line their pockets with oil contracts and diamond mines. Infuriated by a state of affairs that saw workers living in poverty, Sablin, a committed communist, decided to spark a new revolution.

Sablin's plan was to seize the Sentry in Riga and sail it up the
Baltic Sea to Leningrad, where he would launch an uprising. He began by locking the captain in a compartment and calling the ship's 16 officers to a meeting. With impassioned rhetoric, Sablin tried to persuade them to back the mutiny. It really was the speech of his life.

Treachery, division and double-cross among the mutineers, as well as the weather, technology and Swedens fears it was being invaded all play a part in this tale. As this documentary reveals, the story that inspired Clancy's fiction was just as dramatic.

Language        English with some Russian and other languages of the former Soviet Union
Subtitles       included: Hard coded English where appropriate
Source  tvrip
Rip Specs       Duration: 45:17.280 (67932 fr)
File Size: 366,211,072 bytes
Video Codec: XVID
Video Bitrate: 935
Resolution: 640x352 (1.818:1)
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 130 kbps VBR 2 channel
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