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.

214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the im...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

A GCSE short film project studying depictions of outer space in movies.

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...

The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...
A humorous story of a non-humorous national identity question. In globalizing Russia, the spiritual ...

Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...

The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...