Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-yuri-gagarin"

1. Hidden Figures (2016)

PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner

Votes: 255,577 | Gross: $169.61M

2. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill

Votes: 214,930 | Gross: $122.01M

3. First Man (2018)

PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler

Votes: 202,414 | Gross: $44.94M

4. The Right Stuff (1983)

PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid

Votes: 65,397 | Gross: $21.50M

5. From the Earth to the Moon (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, History

Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program.

Stars: Tom Hanks, Nick Searcy, Lane Smith, David Andrews

Votes: 13,234

6. Compartment Number 6 (2021)

R | 107 min | Drama, Romance

As a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.

Director: Juho Kuosmanen | Stars: Seidi Haarla, Yura Borisov, Dinara Drukarova, Yuliya Aug

Votes: 15,490

7. Things to Come (2016)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama

A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob

Votes: 14,756 | Gross: $0.28M

8. Gagarine (2020)

98 min | Drama, Fantasy

Yuri fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition.

Directors: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | Stars: Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield

Votes: 2,701

9. Mondays in the Sun (2002)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina

Votes: 15,411 | Gross: $0.15M

10. Death to 2021 (2021 TV Special)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy

This comedic retrospective mixes archival footage and scripted sketches as it revisits all the dread and occasional delight that 2021 had to offer.

Directors: Jack Clough, Josh Ruben | Stars: Hugh Grant, Joe Keery, William Jackson Harper, Lucy Liu

Votes: 15,761

11. The History of Time Travel (2014)

PG-13 | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.

Director: Ricky Kennedy | Stars: Stephen Adami, Krista Ales, Valerie Black, Ryan Blackburn

Votes: 1,650

12. The Creatures (1966)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy

A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Eva Dahlbeck, Marie-France Mignal

Votes: 1,280

13. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon (2005)

Unrated | 40 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

This program strives to give the viewer an impression of what it is like to actually be on the moon. It provides a romantic, inspirational depiction of the Apollo astronauts travels on the ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Cowen | Stars: Tom Hanks, John Corbett, Andrew Husmann, Bryan Cranston

Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $34.14M

14. Eolomea (1972)

82 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station "Margot" has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist ... See full summary »

Director: Herrmann Zschoche | Stars: Cox Habbema, Ivan Andonov, Rolf Hoppe, Vsevolod Sanaev

Votes: 635

15. Lajka (2017)

88 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a ... See full summary »

Director: Aurel Klimt | Stars: Jan Budar, Petr Ctvrtnícek, Helena Dvoráková, Cenek Koliás

Votes: 100

16. 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi

The geniality of the mythical Kubrick's masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" is explored and debated here by scholars, author Arthur C. Clarke and some members of the cast and crew who were ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: James Cameron, Arthur C. Clarke, Con Pederson, Douglas Trumbull

Votes: 682

17. Mercury 13 (2018)

TV-PG | 78 min | Documentary

After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for the spaceflight.

Directors: David Sington, Heather Walsh | Stars: Wally Funk, Rhea Woltman, Sarah Ratley, Bob Steadman

Votes: 1,292

18. The Saturn V Story (2014)

52 min | Documentary, History

With the accolade of flying 24 men to the Moon, the Saturn V will always be considered one of Mankind's greatest technological achievements. This inspirational film reveals the colossal challenges NASA faced to make it fly.

Directors: Elliot Weaver, Zander Weaver | Stars: David Baker, Nigel Bannister, Mike Cruise, Anu Ojha

Votes: 425

19. One Under the Sun (2017)

TV-14 | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Astronaut Kathryn Voss, sole survivor of a disastrous space mission, is desperate to reunite with her terminally ill daughter but becomes a fugitive when the government discovers she's returned to earth with an extraordinary gift.

Directors: Riyaana Hartley, Vincent Tran | Stars: Pooja Batra, Gene Farber, Michael Keeley, Ava Cantrell

Votes: 699

20. Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014 TV Movie)

89 min | Documentary

A documentary which maintains that the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts, telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age.

Director: Michael Lachmann | Stars: Paul McGann, Yuri Gagarin, Wernher von Braun, Gerard J. DeGroot

Votes: 171

21. Kosmos kak predchuvstvie (2005)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time of changes, time of waiting for something big to happen.

Director: Aleksey Uchitel | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Irina Pegova, Elena Lyadova

Votes: 737

22. The Landing (2013)

18 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960.

Director: Josh Tanner | Stars: Henry Nixon, David Roberts, Tom Usher, James Kearney

Votes: 529

23. Pet Shop Boys: Go West (1993 Music Video)

5 min | Music

Music video for "Go West" by Pet Shop Boys.

Director: Howard Greenhalgh | Stars: Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant

Votes: 131

24. Tengri (2008)

96 min | Drama, Romance

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers ... See full summary »

Director: Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville | Stars: Albina Imasheva, Elim Kalmouratov, Hélène Patarot, Taalai Abazova

Votes: 162

25. Mieletön elokuu (2013)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

August Fools is a romantic comedy set against the political background of the Cold War. Elsa (Kati Outinen), a middle-aged hat maker and part-time clairvoyant, is apparently in total ... See full summary »

Director: Taru Mäkelä | Stars: Kati Outinen, Miroslav Etzler, Elena Leeve, Krystof Hádek

Votes: 295

26. Dressirovshchiki (1961)

36 min | Short

About schoolchildren Grisha and Irisha, who decided to raise a dog for the border guards.

Director: Vsevolod Tsvetkov | Stars: Gennadiy Biryukov, Yelena Cheremshanova, Vladimir Emelyanov, Nina Ivanova

Votes: 8

27. Pervyy reys k zvyozdam (1961)

55 min | Documentary

The film tells about the history of the Soviet space program and the April 12, 1961 orbital flight of the world's first manned spacecraft-satellite "Vostok" with pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.

Directors: Dmitriy Bogolepov, Ilya Kopalin, Grigory Kosenko | Star: Yuri Gagarin

Votes: 10

28. Kouzelná zeme (2021 Video)

107 min | Drama

Add a Plot

Director: Jan Mikulásek | Stars: Johana Tesarová, Lucie Juricková, Eva Stanislavova, Tereza Vilisová

29. Vladimir Ilyushin: The Real First Man in Space (2000 Video)

Documentary

Profiling the real first man in space, who could not be presented to the world by the former Soviet Union as the returning, conquering hero, due to the fact that he crash landed and was ... See full summary »

Director: Elliott Haimoff

30. Monkey's Playtime (1978)

87 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The fisherman Fuksa fishes in the creek an old bottle and he sells it to innkeeper Merta. When Merta opens it, a genie appears, who can fulfill all his wishes.

Director: Milan Muchna | Stars: Josef Kemr, Josef Vinklár, Vladimír Dlouhý, Otakar Brousek

Votes: 88

31. Rencontres de septembre (1961)

33 min | Documentary, Short

Add a Plot

Director: Jean Lods | Star: Georges Aubert

32. Podvodnaya lodka (1962)

36 min | Short, Adventure

American submarine goes on position for missile attack of the USSR. All crew is tired and nervous. Moscow radio announce a special newscast, and captain commands ship combat readiness.

Director: Yuri Vyshinsky | Stars: Vsevolod Yakut, Nikolai Prokopovich, Ants Eskola, Valentin Gaft

33. Televise, která mela nebýt (2017 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary

Add a Plot

Director: Michal Najbrt | Stars: Magdalena Dietlová, Norbert Lichý

Votes: 12

34. Pavel Cadek: Nelajkla mi status (2017 Music Video)

4 min | Comedy, Music

Young man shares his traumatic experience: A woman of his heart didn't like his Facebook status.

Director: Pavel Cadek | Stars: Pavel Cadek, Petr Mikulka, Adam Saha, Jakub Spirík

Votes: 15

35. Laika, Lada, Marx ja mä (2019)
Episode: Suomalainen kosmonautti (2019)

27 min | Documentary, History

Add a Plot

Director: Harri Alanne | Stars: Jussi Nygren, Eva Polttila, Ulla Anttila, Lauri Anttila

36. For All Mankind (2019– )
Episode: Don't Be Cruel (2021)

TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Ellen is challenged by her new role. Margo's allegiances are put to the test. Karen explores new opportunities - personally and professionally.

Director: Dennie Gordon | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten

Votes: 1,595

37. When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)
Episode: Mercury: Ordinary Supermen (2008)

TV-G | 44 min | Documentary, History

When We Left Earth examines the history of American spaceflight starting with the X-15 rocket plane and the Mercury program.

Directors: Mary Crisp, Nick Green | Stars: Gary Sinise, Neil Armstrong, Gene Kranz, John Glenn

Votes: 82

38. Debris (2021)
Episode: Supernova (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When the team investigates a group of teenagers who are using Debris to kill the elderly, Bryan faces increasing pressure from Maddox to get answers out of Finola.

Director: Steven A. Adelson | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele, Norbert Leo Butz, Scroobius Pip

Votes: 444

39. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: The Torch Has Passed (January 1961 - December 1961) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

The youngest President ever elected, Kennedy faces the height of the Cold War and a national civil rights crisis.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Conan O'Brien, Chris Matthews, Charles K. Ross

Votes: 29

40. Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time (2021)
Episode: Space: How Far Can We Go? (2021)

59 min | Documentary

Professor Cox uses a combination of the latest science and footage from his previous television programmes to explore if mankind is on the verge of a new age of space travel and asks how far can we go in our exploration of the cosmos?

Directors: Tom Beard, Gideon Bradshaw, Stephen Cooter, Alex Hemingway, Chris Holt, Martin Johnson, Michael Lachmann, Rob Liddell, Nat Sharman, Alastair Duncan | Stars: Brian Cox, Charles Duke, Robert Zubrin, A.J. Nick

Votes: 42

41. SciShow Space (2014– )
Episode: The Unsung Mission That Made Apollo Possible (2021)

5 min | Documentary, News

In the early 1960s little was know about the surface of the moon at small scales. It could have been solid rock or perhaps covered with boulders or gravel or dust. Since some of these ... See full summary »

Star: Hank Green

42. Joe Scott (2006– )
Episode: The Aldrin Cycler: A Conveyor Belt to Mars: Answers with Joe (2021)

15 min | Documentary, Short

In the movie 'Stowaway' the crew of a spacecraft traveled to Mars using an orbit known as the Aldrin Cycler developed by renowned astronaut and moon walker Buzz Aldrin. Joe explains how the... See full summary »

Star: Joe Scott

43. Curious Droid (2016– )
Episode: How the First Spacewalk Nearly Ended in Disaster - Alexei Leonov Voskhod 2 (2017)

8 min | Documentary

Voskhod was a Vostok spacecraft modified to carry two cosmonauts. It was barely capable of carrying a crew of two and proved to be an inadequate design. While its two missions were ... See full summary »

Star: Paul Shillito

44. Today I Found Out (2013– )
Episode: The Most Disastrous Space Mission Ever Executed (2021)

19 min | Documentary

Hoping to once again one up the American space program the Soviets elected to prematurely launch the first Soyuz spacecraft in 1967. Although the spacecraft would become the work horse of ... See full summary »

Star: Simon Whistler

45. Wonderful Times (2009–2013)
Episode: Od zacátku (2009)

Comedy, Drama

Add a Plot

Director: Biser A. Arichtev | Stars: Svatopluk Skopal, Veronika Freimanová, Andrea Ruzicková, Roman Vojtek

Votes: 8

46. Mad Love (2011)
Episode: Pub Quiz (2011)

21 min | Comedy, Romance

Ben (Jason Biggs) and Larry (Tyler Labine) are excited to defend their pub quiz championship title, until a prospective client (guest star Eric Artell) threatens to keep them from getting ... See full summary »

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel | Stars: Jason Biggs, Sarah Chalke, Judy Greer, Tyler Labine

Votes: 71

47. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Episode: Hero City Chernihiv 3: 47 Souls (2022)

Documentary, Drama, War

On 3 March 2022 Russian air strikes kill 47 civilians by 'dumb bombs', another brutal war crime.

Votes: 14

48. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Cold War: Inside the K.G.B. (2000)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War

Untold stories behind the headlines in the unseen Cold War battles between Western intelligence agencies and the KGB. Features exclusive interviews and new revelations about the KGB's missions and tactics.

Director: Aleksandr Ivankin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Oleg Gordievsky, Pavel Sudoplatov, Vladimir Grushko

Votes: 20

49. Newsthink (2020– )
Episode: How China Plans to Dominate in Space (2020)

Documentary

Here is a brief overview of China's progress in creating a space program and some of their near term objectives.

Star: Cindy Pom

50. Brief History of Disbelief (2004– )
Episode: Noughts and Crosses (2004)

60 min | Documentary

Add a Plot

Director: Richard Denton | Stars: Bernard Hill, Jonathan Miller, Simon Schaffer

Votes: 11