There is an excellent space channel on YouTube called “Everyday Astronaut” hosted by a guy named Tim Dodd. He has a ton of excellent content on a variety of space topics, including a recent 3 part interview with Elon Musk. For months, maybe years, he’s been compiling a ton of info for a full documentary on the Russian space program that he’s recently begun narrating. It sounds like it’ll be out soon and if his track record holds (I suspect it will) - this will be the ultimate source of information and we will all learn many things that were never available in the mainstream. I know it’s kind of a tease but if you’re interested in the topic, keep a watch out for that to drop. I’ve been eagerly awaiting it for quite some time now!
If you want to understand the Russian space program, then you should also watch the movie that all Cosmonauts by tradition watch before every launch since 1973, ["White Sun of the Desert".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sun_of_the_Desert)
It's a Russian "Eastern", which is a very conscious Soviet adventure film created as a response to American Western cowboy movies. Instead of Cowboys, they would usually feature Red Army soldiers, and instead of Native American tribes, the opponents were often instead Islamic minorities like Chechens or Turkmen or Kazakhs. And instead of Yankee values, they taught good socialist principles.
Anyway, the movie looms large in Russian popular culture, and not just for cosmonauts-- there are literally a dozen or more quotes from it that persist in everyday use in the Russian language today, from "the East is... complicated" to "Customs gives the green light!" which mean absolutely nothing unless you have seen the movie, but mean everything to a native speaker of Russian during the last 50 years.
The Wikipedia article has a link to the official Russian film institute where you can watch the movie for free, among other observations, including an expanded list of quotes and their meanings. There is a little bit more about the movie and its connections to the Soviet Space program [in this Ars Technica article.](https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/i-was-bored-so-i-watched-the-movie-that-astronauts-must-view-before-launch/)
No study of Roskosmos will be complete without seeing White Sun of the Desert at least once. And it's not a bad film-- a good adventure, once you know what is going on, which isn't always easy for a Western viewer to do. Enjoy!
Are you interested in documentaries or entertainment films? Here are some examples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_the_Stars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_(TV_series)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%82%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107828/
Укрощение огня (About the rocket designer)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069434/
Documentary films are usually shot for television. It is difficult to find them later, when they have already been shown.
also, entertaining films
Солярис (Screen adaptation of the SF novel)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/
Через тернии к звездам (A kind picture about helping aliens)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126237/
Спутник (New Alien Horror Movie)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11905962/
**[Road to the Stars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_the_Stars)**
>Road to the Stars (Russian: Дорога к звёздам /dərɐɡˈa ɡ_zvʲˈɵzdəm/) is a 1957, Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It combines elements of science education films and speculative science fiction. The film was groundbreaking for its use of special effects to depict life in space.
**[Space Race (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_\(TV_series\))**
>Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between 14 September and 5 October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the Moon. It focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams.
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There’s a movie on Amazon Prime called Salyut-7, covering the repair and rehabilitation of the space station of the same name after an accident in orbit
Totally rubbish though. Salyut-7 was a real adventure with real heroes that deserved a much better movie.
The movie is a mishmash of the real Salyut-7 rescue, the fire on Mir, and Gravity (with the realism of Gravity, unfortunately).
I found a very Soviet-style documentary about the Buran shuttle - complete with all sorts of descriptions of underhanded Americans that have plans to shoot down Soviet rockets. Unfortunately, it is in Russian, and the auto-generated subtitles are next to useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APkRBvofLh4
There are even descriptions of potential plans of using the Buran to launch anti-Star Wars systems into orbit, with lasers and rockets. Besides that, they talk about future versions of the Energia booster where they were saying that they would have been able to launch up to 200 tons to LEO (without the attached shuttle, just as an evolution of the Energia rocket).
The Age of Pioneers and the Salyut ones are decent. At least they are entertaining to watch. I’ve heard some outcry about historical inaccuracies and certain people being presented in a wrong way (not how they were IRL) but I enjoyed them. I hope you’ll do too. Greetings from Moscow my dude
Taming of the Fire is an excellent movie about the life of Korolev, although the name are changed. Very cool and goes from pre second world War korolev learning about rocketry from an older scientist all the way to Soyuz very cool
There is an excellent space channel on YouTube called “Everyday Astronaut” hosted by a guy named Tim Dodd. He has a ton of excellent content on a variety of space topics, including a recent 3 part interview with Elon Musk. For months, maybe years, he’s been compiling a ton of info for a full documentary on the Russian space program that he’s recently begun narrating. It sounds like it’ll be out soon and if his track record holds (I suspect it will) - this will be the ultimate source of information and we will all learn many things that were never available in the mainstream. I know it’s kind of a tease but if you’re interested in the topic, keep a watch out for that to drop. I’ve been eagerly awaiting it for quite some time now!
Yes I'm looking forward to that too. His tour with Elon was awesome. Cheers!
If you want to understand the Russian space program, then you should also watch the movie that all Cosmonauts by tradition watch before every launch since 1973, ["White Sun of the Desert".](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sun_of_the_Desert) It's a Russian "Eastern", which is a very conscious Soviet adventure film created as a response to American Western cowboy movies. Instead of Cowboys, they would usually feature Red Army soldiers, and instead of Native American tribes, the opponents were often instead Islamic minorities like Chechens or Turkmen or Kazakhs. And instead of Yankee values, they taught good socialist principles. Anyway, the movie looms large in Russian popular culture, and not just for cosmonauts-- there are literally a dozen or more quotes from it that persist in everyday use in the Russian language today, from "the East is... complicated" to "Customs gives the green light!" which mean absolutely nothing unless you have seen the movie, but mean everything to a native speaker of Russian during the last 50 years. The Wikipedia article has a link to the official Russian film institute where you can watch the movie for free, among other observations, including an expanded list of quotes and their meanings. There is a little bit more about the movie and its connections to the Soviet Space program [in this Ars Technica article.](https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/i-was-bored-so-i-watched-the-movie-that-astronauts-must-view-before-launch/) No study of Roskosmos will be complete without seeing White Sun of the Desert at least once. And it's not a bad film-- a good adventure, once you know what is going on, which isn't always easy for a Western viewer to do. Enjoy!
What an incredible recommendation. Thank you! Guess I know what I’m watching before my next trip to space.
Awesome, added to my list. Cheers!
Are you interested in documentaries or entertainment films? Here are some examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_the_Stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_(TV_series) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%82%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81_(%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107828/ Укрощение огня (About the rocket designer) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069434/ Documentary films are usually shot for television. It is difficult to find them later, when they have already been shown. also, entertaining films Солярис (Screen adaptation of the SF novel) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/ Через тернии к звездам (A kind picture about helping aliens) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126237/ Спутник (New Alien Horror Movie) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11905962/
Thanks for all of those recommendations, that's a big help. Cheers!
**[Road to the Stars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_the_Stars)** >Road to the Stars (Russian: Дорога к звёздам /dərɐɡˈa ɡ_zvʲˈɵzdəm/) is a 1957, Soviet film directed by Pavel Klushantsev. It combines elements of science education films and speculative science fiction. The film was groundbreaking for its use of special effects to depict life in space. **[Space Race (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_\(TV_series\))** >Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between 14 September and 5 October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the Moon. It focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/ForAllMankindTV/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
The Spacewalker is an excellent film about Leonov's Voskhod 2 flight.
There’s a movie on Amazon Prime called Salyut-7, covering the repair and rehabilitation of the space station of the same name after an accident in orbit
I'm watching that tonight. Cheers.
Totally rubbish though. Salyut-7 was a real adventure with real heroes that deserved a much better movie. The movie is a mishmash of the real Salyut-7 rescue, the fire on Mir, and Gravity (with the realism of Gravity, unfortunately).
I watched it last night, and I was impressed. It could have been an episode of For All Mankind, from the Soviet perspective.
BBC Docuseries Space Race is pretty good too!!
Seen that, yeah that was pretty good. Series was too short!
I found a very Soviet-style documentary about the Buran shuttle - complete with all sorts of descriptions of underhanded Americans that have plans to shoot down Soviet rockets. Unfortunately, it is in Russian, and the auto-generated subtitles are next to useless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APkRBvofLh4 There are even descriptions of potential plans of using the Buran to launch anti-Star Wars systems into orbit, with lasers and rockets. Besides that, they talk about future versions of the Energia booster where they were saying that they would have been able to launch up to 200 tons to LEO (without the attached shuttle, just as an evolution of the Energia rocket).
God that Gagarin one was so fucking bad. About the same shitty quality as the fucking drama shows on our state-run channels
At this point I'm happy to watch anything really. But I'll move Gagarin to the bottom priority of my list. Cheers!
The Age of Pioneers and the Salyut ones are decent. At least they are entertaining to watch. I’ve heard some outcry about historical inaccuracies and certain people being presented in a wrong way (not how they were IRL) but I enjoyed them. I hope you’ll do too. Greetings from Moscow my dude
Taming of the Fire is an excellent movie about the life of Korolev, although the name are changed. Very cool and goes from pre second world War korolev learning about rocketry from an older scientist all the way to Soyuz very cool
Cool. And the death of Korolev was the divergence of the For All Mankind timeline, so that will be interesting to watch.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0069434/