Gagarin: First in Space

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.

Gagarin: First in Space is a 2013 drama biography movie directed by Pavel Parkhomenko, starring Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir Steklov, Yaroslav Zhalnin. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.5/10 from 3,874 votes and runs 1h 48m.