Vladimir Steklov

Selected from over 3,000 Soviet fighter pilots, cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket on April 12, 1961 and orbited Earth for 108 minutes.

When their plane is hijacked and lands in Libya, 12 Russian students become hostages of a band of terrorists as their fathers scramble to rescue them.

This dramatic series explores the life of enigmatic Russian Czar Ivan IV, and his descent into tyranny that led him to be known as Ivan the Terrible.