<Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> Denmark </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English and Russian </Td> </Tr> <P> The Man Who Saved the World is a 2014 feature - length Danish documentary film by film maker Peter Anthony about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces and his role in preventing the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident from leading to nuclear holocaust . </P> <P> The film premiered in October 2014 at the Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, New York, winning; "Honorable Mention: Audience Award Winner for Best Narrative Feature" and "Honorable Mention: James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Narrative Feature ." </P>

Who was the man who saved the world