Wernher von Braun
Acting
Born: 1912-03-22 · Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
Died: 1977-06-16
Biography
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles,
🎬 Movies (15)
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
2025
Self
Beyond Tomorrow
2022
Himself
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
2019
Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
The Saturn V Story
2014
Self (archive footage)
Sirius
2013
Self (archive footage)
Dark Side of the Moon
2002
Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995
Self (archive footage)
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
1973
Footprints on the Moon
1969
Narrator
The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
1966
Moon Mission
1963
Mars and Beyond
1957
Himself
Man and the Moon
1955
Self
Man in Space
1955
Self
The Challenge of Outer Space
1955
