Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
| 13 October 2014 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
WasAnnon

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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Erica Derrick

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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Rosie Searle

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Quiet Muffin

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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Craig A. Bailey

Interesting and informative, but historically incorrect in its title. It was not a purely Russian program, but one based on the people and resources of much of the Soviet Union. Nothing is worse than trying to watch this with a Ukrainian wife who reacts very negatively to the title knowing many heroes came from her country and the bases were in places like Kazakhstan.

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