Английский online: BBC Documentary: "Space Race" (2005) (English subtitles) / Документально-художественный сериал: "Битва за космос" (2005) (английские субтитры)

понедельник, 15 марта 2021 г.

BBC Documentary: "Space Race" (2005) (English subtitles) / Документально-художественный сериал: "Битва за космос" (2005) (английские субтитры)

Четырёхсерийный фильм рассказывает о соревновании между блестящими научными умами в космической гонке двух супердержав: СССР и США. В центре противостояния двух систем - двое ученых: главный конструктор в американской ракетно-космической программе Вернер фон Браун и Сергей Королёв - главный конструктор, руководитель советской группы разработчиков космической программы. Два последних фильма - другая, более краткая версия с английскими субтирами. Все фильмы активны, несмотря на их "странные" серые иконки.

"Space Race" tells the story of the struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States's most powerful rocket design and thus to control the world during the Cold War. Central to the competition between two driven, but also reckless scientists: the charismatic ex-Nazi Wernher von Braun on the American side, and the mysterious leader of the Soviets that they only knew as 'The Chief Designer'.

"Race For Rockets (1944-1949)" (English subtitles)

"Race For Satellites (1953-1958)" (English subtitles)

As the Cold War intensifies, Korolev is asked to build a rocket capable of carrying a five-ton warhead to America - he designs and constructs the R-7 Semyorka, the first ICBM, and is later allowed to use it to launch the first satellite, Sputnik 1, quickly following up with the rushed Sputnik 2. Meanwhile, von Braun struggles to persuade the US government to allow him to launch his own satellite - after Sputnik's launch and the failure of the US Navy to launch a Vanguard satellite, he is finally allowed to launch the first American satellite, Explorer 1.

"Race For Survival (1959-1961)" (English subtitles)

Both the Americans and Soviets are planning manned space flight, and we see both sides preparing to do so with the development of the Vostok programme (USSR) and Project Mercury (USA). As well as basic details about the capsules and their delivery vehicles, we also see some of the selection and training of the Russian cosmonauts, and rather less of that of their counterparts in the US. After difficulties and failures on both sides including a catastrophic failure that killed nearly half of the Soviet rocket team, the Soviets succeed in putting Yuri Gagarin into space first, with the Americans putting Alan Shepard up shortly afterwards.

"Race For The Moon (1964-1969)" (English subtitles)

Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. Meanwhile, despite a few notable successes such as the first space walk by Alexei Leonov, the Soviet space programme struggles to keep up amid internal strife.