Kids today used to the internet and digital information literally at the ends of their fingertips don't understand the amount of hard work and digging it took to research and put together a movie length documentary back then, especially with film clips. This film shows us so much. How fear (and propaganda) can change the entire way we live our lives and arrange our priorities. Great job on an excellent and enlightening historical film. Great job

One aspect of technology that fascinate me the most is the history of aviation, mankind has gone from Orville and Wilbur Wright perfected the first motorize aircraft in 1903 then on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space then on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the moon all of this took place within a 66-year time span. Thanks David Hoffman.

This is wild. I wasn’t aware there was that much fear. I was born in ‘62, and know that the Cuban missile crises was bad, but….wasn’t aware how Sputnik was making the west so fearful.

I was 4 years old when Sputnik was launched in late '57 but I do remember the Cold War aftermath. I don't think that Sputnik "provoked" the arms race. The arms race was already in full force during the Manhattan Project with Stalin's spies being very active at Los Alamos and certainly the Berlin Airlift in '48 was a step in the arms race. Sputnik did give the arms race impetus, but it didn't provoke it.

We have a nuclear cannon on the grounds of the Rock Island, Illinois defense installation called Arsenal Island. As a child born in the 50’s, the threat of nuclear annihilation was always in mind.

I can't believe the amount of quality work you have produced over the years.

Love the history. Thank you David. ❤️

Lovely music in this documentary

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. David Hoffman Filmmaker

The race for space of the 50's and 60's was an extraordinary time to have lived through it was a time filled mix emotions excitement of one day landing on the moon and fear with the cold war, it's nice to have these documentaries and film clips to look back on. This was great David Hoffman alone with you description write ups.😊👍

Great documentary Mr Hoffman,my country India is doing well in space, I hope we will catch up with America in near future.

Thanks again for posting great content!

A fantastic documentary. I was born in a small village just south of Amsterdam, October 5 1957, a day with fearful newspaper headlines. My mother much later told me that when she sent news to the neighborhood that I was born folks didn’t care; they were interested in only one thing: when will the Russians come..?

Very enjoyable & informative, David. Thank you. I had already realised that Ike was a guy to be respected & now I'm even more impressed by him.

I remember all this in real time.

SPACE 🚀🌌 the final frontier, these are the galaxy, bowley go were no man has gone before. Thanks David. I have a friend that was born January 12, 1958 he's 65. So this thing that happened in 1958 was 65 years ago. Thanks for sharing this.

Thank you! Absolutely stellar job David! This is one of history's greatest feature length documentary films ever made✌

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Jim. I am proud of it. David Hoffman Filmmaker

@JWF99

5 ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Your welcome! Rightfully so David, and It's such a great film to be proud of!👍👍 Heck I'm proud of you too!❤❤✌

Thank you for this. I’ve never heard of this or can’t remember much about it. I’ll most certainly check out as I’m kinda busy. The only problem for me with long videos is that I get too distracted by doing everything else. Thanks again for this piece of history

I was in the 6th grade when Sputnik went up. Our educators were pissing down their leg. Three shop coerces were eliminated from the high school and replaced by Three foreign languages. French, German, and Russian. I was encouraged to take the hard hard coerces. The "bomb" was the least of my fears.

Excellent documentary, David. It's a real resource and a big help in analyzing some current subjects in the world. It fills in some key details for me, which is no surprise given when it was made. 👍

Worth every minute!

A well done documentary David! The stance Eisenhower took regarding the military being involved was very interesting. He had seen the ugliness of war and wanted no part of it anymore. The creation of NASA was needed to calm the world down and was a step in the right direction at the time. Great work again David!

@MicahScottPnD

5 ай бұрын

I second that👍

Mannnnn that was cool. Thank you for sharing❤. *edit* Question: "Told by Liev Schreiber ". The actor? When did you make this Mr. Hoffman?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

10 ай бұрын

2007 - 2008. David Hoffman Filmmaker

Thanks!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the support. David Hoffman Filmmaker

Thanks! Is this part of making sense? Always odd, thinking of the politics now! I was but a tyke when this occurred!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Lucie. David Hartman filmmaker

@luciehanson6250

10 ай бұрын

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Geeze! You're right on this! I got my heart before my bank even called! Bless you, kind sir!

Very interesting looking at this from the point of the US. Space Race really did push both sides to try and one up each other. What did you think about the launch if Sputnik David?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

10 ай бұрын

At the time I was about 14 years old. Standing on the lawn of my parents home in Levittown Long Island looking to see if we could see it. The man and woman across the street were praying outside. As soon as I became a filmmaker in my early 20s, the space program interested me. David Hoffman filmmaker

Hello David! Im a young person currently writing about the Sputnik moment, and all your films have been such a great help. Thank you for this wonderful piece of art. I would however like to ask where you got some of the pictures and videos from, for example, the animation at 33:26. Once again, thankyou!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

3 ай бұрын

Good luck with your writing work. David Hoffman filmmaker

Frightening times wonderful film

the nerve to have a war criminal smiling for the cameras, only in america

if you dont mid me asking, where did you get your sources, im doing a project on Sputnik and im struggling to find them.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

4 ай бұрын

Contact my office at allinaday@aol.com. David Hoffman Filmmaker

...and the great beast rose obove the Earth.

@valpyatigorsky7591

2 күн бұрын

great beast rose in 1945

How did you get Peter Thomas to narrate?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Ай бұрын

Thank you for asking. Peter was a very good friend of mine for almost 50 years. He admired my directing style. He narrated dozens of my films and did them at no cost or low cost to support my work. I miss him every time I have a new project. David Hoffman filmmaker

@bradwooldidge6979

Ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Wow! He was the GOAT! Great documentary by the way.

There was no "Arms Race" more "Arms Chase" Like Cold war did not start 47 but 1920

Plus......how many failures did Russia have launching Sputnik?

🚀🌐 Smiles

beginning of the heroic history of the russian space program

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

Ай бұрын

that is not what my film is about. My films about the American reaction. David Hoffman filmmaker

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10 ай бұрын

It is getting close to 1 million! 🎉

Thanks!

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker

10 ай бұрын

Thank you Tommy. David Hoffman Filmmaker

Thanks!

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10 ай бұрын

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