The Last Saturday Of October: The Declassified Secrets of Black Saturday

The new breed of submarine thriller - based on a true story. A reenactment of the most pivotal moment in human history about a hero’s sacrifice, courage, and actions during the Cold War. Russia, 1962. Vasili Arkhipov is assigned to a Soviet diesel submarine above the Arctic Circle. From childhood, he’s dreamed of escaping his bleak peasant farm life to become someone important. With the Americans threatening to invade Cuba, he is called on to sail on an attack submarine carrying a nuclear torpedo and special forces on a Top-Secret mission to an unknown location during the most dangerous days of human history. Night sweats from PTSD and the seaborne suffering of the arduous submarine voyage cannot dissuade him from standing up to his captain in the crisis.
After living under Stalin’s brutal social experiment of farm collectivization and surviving the Soviet navy’s nuclear disaster known as “Chernobyl at sea,” Vasili Arkhipov is assigned to the 69th Torpedo Submarine Brigade. Americans discover Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba and deploy the largest antisubmarine fleet in history to block their passage. Depth charge attacks leave the Russians with unbreathable air and little water in extreme heat to decide—surrender or counterattack with nuclear weaponry.