Watch der sputnik-schock on HDtoday. The news that the Soviet Union had succeeded in launching an artificial moon for the first time in history on October 4, 1957 hit like a bombshell. Sputnik1 is the talk of the town. A metal ball weighing 83 kg with a diameter of 58 cm, hurtling around the globe at cosmic speed.
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From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...
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The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
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Like a visual elegy, My Memory Is Full of Ghosts explores a reality caught between past, present and future in Homs, Syria. Behind the self-portrait...
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Third short documentary made from archival footage that explores the great war, how it started and ended
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Documentary about the struggles of the people of El Sitio del Anís, in the Venezuelan Andes.
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Los Nevados is the first peasant feature film from Venezuela. The magical poetry about humans who endure an almost animal, almost instinctive, almost...
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Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books and their readers? Alan Yentob discusses the...
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Can music overcome borders and walls and bring people together? Prophets of Change tracks musicians, both Israeli and Palestinian, through their...
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Crime writer Ian Rankin invites BBC to follow him as he writes his next novel, and as he ponders what to write about after retiring his most famous...
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On a January night in 1985, music's biggest stars gathered to record "We Are the World." This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic...