Yuri Gagarin's April 1961 flight, the first time a human left Earth's atmosphere, gets a real-time recreation built entirely from footage shot aboard the International Space Station. The film matches the length and pacing of Gagarin's actual 108-minute orbit, syncing new Earth-orbit imagery with the original mission audio recorded in Vostok 1's cabin, so the Russian voices coordinating the flight play under views of the same clouds, coastlines, and sunrises he would have seen. There is no narrator and no reenactment footage of Gagarin himself; the film substitutes the ISS's vantage point for his, letting composer Philip Sheppard's score carry the transitions between radio exchanges. The effect is closer to a flight log than a biography: mission control chatter, orbital sunrise, re-entry, all timed to the minute. It works as a companion piece to the written history of the space race more than a replacement for it, offering the one thing archival photographs from 1961 cannot, motion and duration matched to what Gagarin actually experienced in real time.