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1. Salyut-7 (2017)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 12,286
2. Closer to the Moon (2014)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser
Votes: 4,342
3. Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose (2013)
108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.
Director: Pavel Parkhomenko | Stars: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir Steklov, Vadim Michman
Votes: 3,583
4. Chasing the Moon (2019)
342 min | Documentary, History
Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the moon landing, blending scientific innovation, political maneuvering, media frenzy, visionary zeal, and personal stories in the space race.
Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Ed Dwight Jr., Mike Collins, Frank Borman
Votes: 802
5. Ukroshcheniye ognya (1972)
166 min | Biography, Drama, History
About Soviet space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
Director: Daniil Khrabrovitsky | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Igor Gorbachyov, Andrei Popov
Votes: 404
6. The Eagle Has Landed: The Lunar Module Story (1989)
29 min | Documentary, Short
The conception, design, and manufacture of the Lunar Module spacecraft, and its pivotal role in landing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
Stars: Sam Avati, Manning Dandridge, Joe Gavin, Robert Gilruth
7. Sigmund Jähn - Der erste Deutsche im All (2017 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Every child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, ... See full summary »
Director: Rene Römer | Stars: Carsten Linke, Sigmund Jähn, Eberhard Köllner, Romy Mothes
8. Govorit sputnik (1959)
54 min | Documentary
Directors: Venyamin Dorman, Sergey Gerasimov, Genrikh Oganisyan, Eduard Volk
9. Pervyy reys k zvyozdam (1961)
55 min | Documentary
The film tells about the history of the Soviet space program and the April 12, 1961 orbital flight of the world's first manned spacecraft-satellite "Vostok" with pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
Directors: Dmitriy Bogolepov, Ilya Kopalin, Grigory Kosenko | Star: Yuri Gagarin
Votes: 10
10. Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary
A documentary which maintains that the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts, telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age.
Director: Michael Lachmann | Stars: Paul McGann, Yuri Gagarin, Wernher von Braun, Gerard J. DeGroot
Votes: 171
11. A Man Has Returned from Space (1961)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Film about flight of Yuriy Gagarin in space of April, 12, 1961.
Director: Yekaterina Vermishyova | Star: Yuri Gagarin
Votes: 24
12. Die Schneider Krankheit (2008)
10 min | Short, Sci-Fi
The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.
Director: Javier Chillon | Stars: Franz Leisdon, Berta Abad, Nieves Aguilar, Daniel Alcoba
Votes: 40
13.
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives (1998– )
Episode:
Stolen Glory: The Cover-up of Cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin
(1998)
45 min | Documentary
In 1961, the Soviet Union successfully launched the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. Recent access to documents in the Kremlin archives reveal a story intended to remain buried forever-Gagarin may not be the first man in space.
Stars: Dean Stockwell, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gordon Feller, Yuri Gagarin
Votes: 7
14.
Today I Found Out (2013– )
Episode:
The Most Disastrous Space Mission Ever Executed
(2021)
19 min | Documentary
Hoping to once again one up the American space program the Soviets elected to prematurely launch the first Soyuz spacecraft in 1967. Although the spacecraft would become the work horse of ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
15.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Red Star in Orbit: The Dark Side of the Moon
(1990)
Documentary
History of the early Soviet space program, with emphasis on the "space race" with the United States to land a man on the moon, the Soviet unmanned lunar probes, the ill-fated N1 moon rocket, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Stars: Joss Ackland, James E. Oberg
16.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Red Star in Orbit: The Invisible Spaceman
(1990)
Documentary
History of the early Soviet space program, emphasizing the role of the enigmatic "Chief Designer", Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.
Stars: Joss Ackland, James E. Oberg
17.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Red Star in Orbit: The Mission
(1990)
Documentary
History of the Soviet space program, focusing on a 6-month-long mission in 1990 to the Mir space station. We observe the training of the two cosmonauts, the effects of their long absences ... See full summary »
Stars: Joss Ackland, Alexei Leonov, James E. Oberg
18.
Spaceflight (1985– )
Episode:
The Wings of Mercury
(1985)
Documentary
Director: Blaine Baggett | Stars: Martin Sheen, Frank Borman, Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr
19.
Spaceflight (1985– )
Episode:
One Giant Leap
(1986)
Documentary
Director: Blaine Baggett | Stars: Martin Sheen, Frank Borman, Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr
20.
Spaceflight (1985– )
Episode:
The Territory Ahead
(1987)
Documentary
Director: Blaine Baggett | Stars: Martin Sheen, Frank Borman, Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr
21.
American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Episode:
Brothers in Arms
(2018)
42 min | Documentary, History
A confident, popular John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest ever elected American president, but he will have to rely on his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, to help him navigate the disasters of 1961.
Director: Tim Dunn | Stars: Martin Sheen, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Patrick J. Kennedy, Richard Mahoney
Votes: 56