In the Shadow of Sakharov

October 15, 1991

Season 1991: Episode 1

Frontline recounts the saga of Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist turned human-rights advocate who became the father of the Soviet democracy movement. With unique access to Sakharov’s family and friends, the film documents Sakharov’s life across seven decades of Communist rule in the USSR and traces his struggle to teach his country and the world important lessons about the moral power of the human spirit.

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