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Combative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s. Later, Rickover built the world's ...
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a unique American hero. He created the first nuclear-powered submarine, aircraft carrier, and power plant. He transformed the Navy, helped win the Cold War, and changed the course of America s technological development. [text adapted from PBS.org]
Admiral Rickover – 60 Minutes interview by Diane Sawyer (1984) with an excerpt from a 1957 interview with Edward R. Murrow; Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power by Michael Pack – documentary screened at the GI Film Festival in the District of Columbia on May 24, 2014, and broadcast on December 9, 2014, on PBS. Further reading
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power Unafraid to buck the system, he alienated Navy brass in his quest to create the first nuclear-powered submarine, aircraft carrier and power plant. However, few contested that he transformed the Navy, helped win the Cold War and changed the course of America’s technological development.
Rickover Trailer. Watch on. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was one of the most fascinating characters of the 20th century – a maverick who infuriated his bosses while managing to transform the Navy, develop a new energy source and help win the Cold War. In order to portray this exceptional man, the filmmaker combines archival footage and personal ...
Had to watch this while doing research on nuclear energy, and didn't expect to love the film and admire Rickover by the end as much as I did. Tim Blake Nelson is excellent in it, total commitment. One of the better docu-dramas I've seen, and it's so refreshing to watch a modern documentary that's not done the way every other cookie-cutter netflix documentary has decided to uniformly look now.
