I was alive when this happened but a little too young to appreciate its significance. Today, fifty years later, the significance is evident to all (except perhaps a two-year old). The video is well worth experiencing, not so much for plot or content (photography from space has become old hat by now, so much so that more than an hour of it seems excruciating) but for the sheer experience of reliving Gagarin's first flight. As you spend 108 minutes with the video - the actual duration of the flight - imagine how that fraction of a human life would define Gagarin (who never flew in space again) and humanity.
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