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 ...

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 first man-made object to orbit the Earth looks impudently inconsequential 50 years later: a drab metal ball with four tapered, antenna-like spikes and no snazzy gizmos. But as “Sputnik Mania,” a ...

When a renowned indie documentarian went to make a film on Sputnik, he spent years collecting original footage from people he met through eBay and YouTube. But the real shock came when he licensed the ...

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 ...