Untitled Russian Space Race Project

This film tells the unsung story of the Soviet Union's impassioned battle for supremacy in the Space Race - the high stakes face-off between Sergei Korolev's Vostok rocket and Werner von Braun's Apollo. The race to send the first man into space played out against the backdrop of the raging cold war with a possible escalation to nuclear war. Told from deep within the Soviet system, the film captures a thrilling period when the whole world was looking to the stars...