CinemaOSMovie · 2014 · 1h 30m

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

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When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk. The real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts. This remarkable feature-length documentary combines rare and unseen archive footage with interviews with the surviving cosmonauts to tell the fascinating and at times terrifying story of how the Russians led us into the space age. A particular highlight is Alexei Leonov, the man who performed the first spacewalk, explaining how he found himself trapped outside his spacecraft 500 miles above the Earth. Scary stuff.

Directed byMichael Lachmann

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
EN
Released
October 13, 2014
Studios
BBC

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring
Paul McGann

Paul McGann

Narrator (Voice)

Creative team
Directed by
Michael Lachmann
Michael Lachmann
Written by
Michael Lachmann
Michael Lachmann

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