Yuri Gagarin

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

Spain, 1519. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator in the service of King Charles I, undertakes, at the command of five ships, a commercial...

In the first hour of the new year 1965, a holiday program with the participation of Pavel Rudakov and Sergei Lavrov, Larisa Mondrus, Tatiana Shmyga,...

Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the...

Short film about astronauts in the GDR

A story about four British scientists who have created a probe which will take a seven year long trip to the largest moon orbiting Saturn, Titan....

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the...

In Ivry sur Seine, in the Parisian suburbs, the Gagarin housing estate was a symbol. Destroyed in 2020, this film brings it back to life, through the...

Personal view of the era that left its mark on an entire generation of Soviet people, a look at euphoria and hero worship.

July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually it...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north...

Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by...

1961 - the year when Swedish UN soldiers are in the crisis-ridden Congo and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash. Swedish film's...

Footage of Yuri Gagarin's visit to Brazil in 1961.

On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to journey into outer space.

A documentary portrait of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, revisiting his flight and public life ten years later through training footage,...

The history of the Soviet space program and the flight of the world's first manned spacecraft "Vostok" piloted by Yuri Gagarin.

The film tells about the visit to Japan of the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin. Japan became the twentieth country visited by Gagarin...

A feature on Soviet space exploration on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Socialist Revolution.

On the achievements of Soviet science and technology in the field of space exploration.

For three decades the Soviet Union's obsession with space stirred the soul of the nation like a secular religion - from the first space star Yuri...