Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014) is a Documentary film that follows when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk. The real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts. This remarkable feature-length documentary combines rare and unseen archive footage with interviews with the surviving cosmonauts to tell the fascinating and at times terrifying story of how the Russians led us into the space age. A particular highlight is Alexei Leonov, the man who performed the first spacewalk, explaining how he found himself trapped outside his spacecraft 500 miles above the Earth. Scary stuff. Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race is not currently listed with streaming providers in your selected region, but availability can change over time. It has a user rating of 7.4 out of 10 from 6 votes. Fans of documentary movies may also want to explore similar titles below.