Sputnik Not rated. In Russian, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 53 minutes. Rent or buy on Google Play, iTunes and other streaming platforms and pay TV operators. Sputnik. Find Tickets.

Sputnik may have been a compromise, but in the eyes of the world it was a large feat. The beeping noise it played from space echoed in worldwide radio broadcasts, as well as on television sets.

Few people actually saw Sputnik and its rocket take off — and when they did, they feared at first that the launch was a failure. The world's first-ever orbital liftoff provided a new perspective ...