1960.

On May 1st, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured. It was the year's main event. Powers was extensively interrogated and convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union. Sentenced to 10 years, he was exchanged for a So...

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Bibliographic Details
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Geelong, Australia : World Wide Entertainment, [between 1999 and 2009?]
Series:	World history in video.
Subjects:	Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969. Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, > 1894-1971. Powers, Francis Gary, > 1929-1977. U-2 Incident, 1960. Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States. United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union. Incident du U-2, 1960. URSS > Relations extérieures > États-Unis. États-Unis > Relations extérieures > URSS. Diplomatic relations. Soviet Union. United States. 1960 Documentary. Alexander Street Video. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Documentaires. Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	On May 1st, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured. It was the year's main event. Powers was extensively interrogated and convicted of espionage against the Soviet Union. Sentenced to 10 years, he was exchanged for a Soviet spy just two years later on Berlin's famous Bridge of Spies.
Item Description:	Previously released on DVD. Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (6 min.).