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The Real Hunt for Red October

  • TV Special
  • 20212021
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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The Real Hunt for Red October (2021)
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The docu-drama The Real Hunt for Red October reveals, for the first time, the astonishing secret events behind the Russian submarine K-129 that went missing on March 8, 1968, taking the Sovi... Read allThe docu-drama The Real Hunt for Red October reveals, for the first time, the astonishing secret events behind the Russian submarine K-129 that went missing on March 8, 1968, taking the Soviet Union and the U.S. to the brink of war.The docu-drama The Real Hunt for Red October reveals, for the first time, the astonishing secret events behind the Russian submarine K-129 that went missing on March 8, 1968, taking the Soviet Union and the U.S. to the brink of war.
IMDb RATING
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    • Gary Lang(uncredited)
    • Cameron Rothery
  • Stars
    • Mark Lapointe(voice)
    • Alec Baldwin(archive footage)
    • Tom Clancy(archive footage)
    • Gary Lang(uncredited)
    • Cameron Rothery
  • Stars
    • Mark Lapointe(voice)
    • Alec Baldwin(archive footage)
    • Tom Clancy(archive footage)
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    Mark Lapointe
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Alec Baldwin
    Alec Baldwin
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Tom Clancy
    Tom Clancy
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Sean Connery
    Sean Connery
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    John McTiernan
    John McTiernan
    • Self
    Deborah Grosvenor
    • Self
    Sam Neill
    Sam Neill
    • Self
    Kenneth R. Sewell
    • Self
    David O'Keefe
    • Self
    Nikolai Serkashin
    • Self, Russian military historian
    Irina Zhuravina
    • Self
    Josh Dean
    • Self, author of 'The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History'
    James Reeb
    • Self
    Larry King
    Larry King
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Tom Clancy III
    • Self
    John Lehman
    John Lehman
    • Self, United States Secretary of the Navy (1981-1987)
    Scott Glenn
    Scott Glenn
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    John Craven
    • Self, former Chief Scientist of the Special Projects Office of the U.S. Navy
    • (archive footage)
      • Gary Lang(uncredited)
      • Cameron Rothery
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    • Trivia
      The Global Marine (often abbreviated GloMar) Explorer - the ship built to recover the K-129 - utilized the largest gimbal (a mechanism that swivels in 2 directions) ever built, with bearings over 6 feet diameter, and capable of supporting 20,000 tons.
    • Goofs
      About 30 minutes in, the narrator says that no one knew where K-129 sank. But the British & the US knew its exact location, within 50 square miles - a VERY small area within the Pacific Ocean. And they knew that location within hours of it sinking. It was later photographed by the USS Halibut in 1968, as described later in this film.
    • Connections
      Features The Hunt for Red October (1990)

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    6/10
    A stretch...
    This comparison of the movie to the actual story of the K129 (better told in "Azorian: The Raising of the K-129 (2010)") is fairly entertaining, and well-done with many interesting details about the film, the actors, the writer, the director, and the K-129. But it's long-winded at about 2 hours, and there's a very-obvious effort to make it all fit the narrative of another book with a wild theory about what K-129 might have been doing (not based in any facts offered in this film) when it sank. This story would have been better if that fantasy had been omitted, but it's still worth watching.
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      • June 24, 2021 (United States)
      • Canada
      • official producer's page with trailer video & description
      • English
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      • Bristow Global Media (BGM)
      • Ontario Creates
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    • 1 hour 25 minutes
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