The Jump
Šuolis
The Jump Free Online HD on Lookmovie. 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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: France, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany
- Director: Giedrė Žickytė
- Cast: Henry Kissinger, Ralph W. Eustis, Daiva Kezys, Simas Kudirka, Grazina Paegle,
Comment
Related Movies
- 2019
Rich Hall's Red Menace
Rich Hall's Red Menace02019HD
2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall examines the relationship between the West and the...
![Rich Hall's Red Menace]()
- 2020
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice7.52020HD
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north...
![Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice]()
- 1997
Mission to Mir
Mission to Mir7.21997HD
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russians were our "enemies". And to them the Americans...
![Mission to Mir]()
- 1960
Land of White Alice
Land of White Alice01960HD
Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications...
![Land of White Alice]()
- 2016
Stealing the Superfortress
Stealing the Superfortress72016HD
How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.
![Stealing the Superfortress]()
- 1972
Tragedy or Hope
Tragedy or Hope01972HD
Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing and innovation, this film celebrates the concept...
![Tragedy or Hope]()
- 2021
Tunnel to Freedom
Tunnel to Freedom7.22021HD
13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape to the West becomes more dangerous every day. But...
![Tunnel to Freedom]()
- 1962
The Hole In The Ground
The Hole In The Ground01962HD
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included...
![The Hole In The Ground]()
- 1999
Nukes in Space
Nukes in Space6.11999HD
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
![Nukes in Space]()
- 2001
Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years
Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years102001HD
These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywood movie star to a legendary force in American...
![Ronald Reagan: The Hollywood Years, the Presidential Years]()
- 2020
McCarthy
McCarthy82020HD
"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power after a stunning victory in an election no one...
![McCarthy]()
- 2017
President; Actor of Cinema
President; Actor of Cinema102017HD
Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the Soviet Union continued with the Western...
![President; Actor of Cinema]()
