The Red Stuff

USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.

Set in 1950s and 1960s, general Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda coming back from USA lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb in the Gobi Desert of northwest China.

When his space shuttle flight has an accident, an astronaut remembers the lessons his father taught him growing up.

In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.

A Chinese space scientist shows his loyalty to his career and family.

Every child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, in which one could only dream of traveling far away, he was by far the most widely traveled citizen. Today, the first German in space has a little bit fallen into oblivion. Born in 1937 before World War II and raised as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic, the distinguished fighter pilot and Major General of the People's Army was chosen to participate in the Soviet Interkosmos program and to fly into space in 1978 with a Soyuz rocket. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, this documentary traces the cosmonaut's most important stages of life with a wealth of archive material.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

A mother deals with her son who is so determined to become a cosmonaut that he refuses to ever take of his space suit.

Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

Zoologist professor Steel, his small daughter Christine and captain Green leave Earth in search for rare space animals. The journey turns into adventurous and dangerous mission involving space pirates and a missing captain of a ship.

A schoolboy finds a time machine and he helps Alisa, a scientist of the future, to save a mind-reading device from space pirates. Chased by the pirates and followed by Alisa he saves the device and takes it back to his own time.

Alisa, her father, and archaeologist Gromozeka discover an extinct alien civilization wiped out by a hostility virus they left on Earth 26,000 years ago. To stop it, they time travel to that era where magic coexisted with humans.

In 1946, the Soviet space program is undergoing turmoil. Professor Sedikh, who is planning to lead the first manned exploration to the moon, is denounced by his rival Professor Karin as being too old and too mentally unstable for the mission. Professor Sedikh, aided by his assistant Marina and a youth named Andryusha, disregard Prof. Karin's authority and make a successful landing on the moon. Although a few problems occur at the moon, including the discovery of a damaged oxygen tank and Professor Sedikh's becoming trapped under a fallen boulder, the expedition is a success and the cosmonauts return to Moscow.

By means of archival footage, this mockumentary "reconstructs" how the Russians secretly realised the first manned flight to the moon as early as the 1930s.

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.

Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.

A cellist and a DJ accidentally end up on a sand-filled planet. Animated remake of George Danelia's comedy.

Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it.

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella.

In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. A rare astronomical phenomenon - the parade of planets - has a peculiar effect on several of the men.

Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.

Story of the Moon told by scientists. The prospects of the Moon's future exploration by humans with elements of science fiction dramatization by actors in the final part of the film.