In the Shadow of Sakharov

1991 · Sherry Jones, Foster Wiley, Wil Lyman, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Washington Media A

Profile of the life of the nuclear physicist who became a human-rights advocate and the father of the Soviet democracy movement. With access to Sakharov's family and friends, the film documents his life, which spanned seven decades of Communist rule in the U.S.S.R., and traces his struggle to teach his country and the world important lessons about the moral power of the human spirit.