Sputnik Mania Appearing a little late -- Sputnik's 50th anniversary was in October -- "Sputnik Mania" probably won't do much theatrically. But the film, which is based on Paul Dickson's book "Sputnik: ...

When independent filmmaker David Hoffman set out to make a documentary on the Sputnik hysteria that swept the US in the 1950s, he styled the piece as an hour-and-a-half feature film. He relied heavily ...

Sputnik Mania is a new film made to coincide with Thursday's 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union's launch of the Sputnik I satellite. Among the many interesting clips available at Sputnik Mania's ...

For Gen-X babies, the Cold War scenario of Sputnik Mania must seem like Bizarro World. The supposedly backward Russkies control the heavens; a war-hero president argues against military overspending ...

The iWBOT is based on per-theater averages reported by Rentrak Theatrical, the complete indieWIRE BOT weekly chart is available at indieWIRE.com. “Sputnik Mania” director David Hoffman’s documentary ...

Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go to space (1963), will be coming to Washington DC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sputnik. She will be participating in tours and a symposium while here ...

When the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into orbit Oct. 4, 1957, the steady, high-pitched signal emitting from Sputnik I was hailed as the beep heard 'round the world. To many, the ...

Through the blurry vision of hindsight, it’s easy to look back at the events of October 1957 and wonder what all the fuss was about. That’s why David Hoffman’s lively documentary “Sputnik Mania” is a ...

The word "Sputnik" is not bandied about much anymore, but when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space on Oct. 4, 1957, it shocked the world. Americans of a certain age remember what ...

An alarming, yet entertaining, examination of the history (and hysteria) surrounding the 1957 launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik, which orbited the Earth every 96 minutes and sent fearful ...