The Jump

In 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.

The Jump is a 2020 history documentary movie directed by Giedre Zickyte, starring Walter Cronkite, Richard Nixon, Ralph W. Eustis. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.3/10 from 1,156 votes and runs 1h 24m.