Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

Name: Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
Genre: Biography
Duration: 1 h 56 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Joan Allen, Michael Stewart Allen, Joel Briel

2014
TV-PG
1h 56m

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6.1/10

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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)

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Combative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the... Read allCombative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose t... Read allCombative, provocative, and searingly blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s. Later, R... Read all

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- Michael Pack
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10/10

Better than any Hollywood Movie

I was not expecting a 'Docu-Drama'... (I was hoping for a straight documentary).

But this is pretty close.. there is plenty of real footage of Admiral Rickover, whom I have never met... He resigned a year or 2 before I interviewed with Admiral McKee in Washington DC, to qualify for the Navy Nuclear Power Program.

Luckily, I was Accepted.

I hated the Navy, but I Am Proud to have Served Our Country by keeping Navy Nuclear Power Safe... USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

Admiral Rickover's experience with the US Navy and Beauracracy only vindicates my view that it truly takes a Maverick or iconoclast to buck the system and make things happen in this world, to make things Right.