The film is based on Hoover research fellow Bertrand Patenaude's The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921. The world barely remembers the terrible famine in the Soviet Russia–or the American charity that relieved it. Patenaude tells how Herbert Hoover saved more lives than any person who has ever lived.

Two English-language films produced by RFE/RL in the 1960s can be viewed on Hoover’s RFE/RL website. The films, which were used to promote RFE/RL operations in the United States, are part of the RFE/RL corporate records held by the Hoover Institution Archives.

A select group of television broadcasts from the Firing Line collection held in the Hoover Archives is now available as DVDs.