k19 true story

Sometimes you should let fact get in the way of a good story because its an even better story. The Widowmaker tells of the Soviet Unions attempt in 1961 to not fall behind the United States in the Cold War.

Soviet Submarine K 129 1960 Wikipedia

Overall Huchthausen rates K-19 a pretty good submarine movie.

. Why was K-19 called the Widowmaker. The Widowmaker is based on the true story of a near-disaster aboard the Soviet Unions first nuclear ballistic submarine. Based on a true story K-19. As the LA.

The United States had just launched the. A huge explosion sank the giant nuclear-powered submarine Kursk killing most of its crew and stranding nearly two dozen survivors hundreds of feet underwater. It was commonplace for the Soviet government. Times points out until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 very little was known about the K-19 incident.