Young Franz resides in East Berlin but works in the West division. He is content but his aunt and uncle beg him to help them escape from the repression. Franz undertakes life threatening chances to bring his relatives to freedom.
A recreation of events on Oct. 5, 1960, when a missile barrage coming from the U.S.S.R. appeared on NORAD's radar screens, and the boys in the back room were thinking of using the "hot line" telephone to advise Washington to retaliate.
In Poland in 1942, Abraham Rothstein is locked in a freight car en route to the Nazi extermination camp at Treblinka. Yussel, a fellow prisoner, finds an iron pipe on the floor of the car, and Rothstein breaks open the window and jumps.
The story of the X-15, the fastest plane ever built, streaking through the lower reaches of outer space even before the first space capsules reached orbit. It proved to be a crucial testing ground for both astronauts and hardware.