Hot Docs ends with a bang and a laugh in "Khrushchev Does America," a straightforward historical doc about a very odd event that has been all-but-forgotten. Before the future of the world rested on a razor blade, before Kennedy, and before the Cold War started as we understand it today, Nikita Khrushchev took a two-week vacation ... in the United States. This visit took place just a few short years after the reign of Stalin, and a few short years before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Narrated and chock-full of incredible news footage, this is a documentary that's easy to follow, and a fascinating memoir.
If you're like me, just hearing the name "Khrushchev" evokes images of a madman, anxiously yelling into a phone with a finger above a big red button that could end the world. Famously misquoted as saying "We will bury you" in the general direction of the west in the mid 1950s,...
If you're like me, just hearing the name "Khrushchev" evokes images of a madman, anxiously yelling into a phone with a finger above a big red button that could end the world. Famously misquoted as saying "We will bury you" in the general direction of the west in the mid 1950s,...
- 5/3/2014
- by Mark Wigmore
- Moviefone
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