Movies: Astronomy
- 1997
Contact (1997)
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A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the trut...
- 2023
Asteroid City (2023)
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In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events....
- 1988
Mystic Pizza (1988)
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Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut....
- 2019
Forbidden Dream (2019)
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A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist....
- 2023
Insomniacs After School (2023)
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No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when he encounters his carefree classmate, Magari, dozing off in their high school’s abandoned observatory....
- 1991
Bury Me High (1991)
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In a mountainous region in an Asian backwater banana republic, it is said that the descendents of all those buried in its earth will be blessed with fantastic fortune and good health. However, if a special ceremony is not performed on the grounds, th...
- 2023
The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See (2023)
The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See6.52023HD
In an age when misinformation, alternative facts, and conspiracy theories have become mainstream, UFOs have risen to become one of the most-talked about pop culture phenomena. With all of this noise, how can we expect anyone to know how much of this ...
- 2010
Journey to Palomar, America's First Journey Into Space (2010)
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The film traces the story of the Chicago-born astronomer George Ellery Hale, considered the father of astrophysics, as he struggles personally and professionally to build the greatest telescopes of the 20th century at the Yerkes and Mount Wilson Obse...
- 1874
Passage of Venus (1874)
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Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a r...
- 2019
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time8.72019HD
How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, ...
- 2012
TimeScapes (2012)
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Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West....
- 2019
Cosmis Flows: The Cartographers of the Universe (2019)
Cosmis Flows: The Cartographers of the Universe7.82019HD
Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21st century cosmologists today navigate more celestial oceans, with each mission providing an ever-broader and more impressive cartography of our surrou...
- 2010
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
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In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime....
- 2009
400 Years of the Telescope (2009)
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A documentary chronicling the history of the telescope from the time of Galileo. Featuring interviews with leading scientists discussing Galileo's first use of the telescope to the latest discoveries in cosmology....
- 1907
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
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In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an old astronomer begins to teach a class of youn...
- 2022
Searching for Planet 9 (2022)
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At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the Earth. Several international teams of scientists have been competing in a frantic race to detect it, in uncharted territories, far beyond Neptune. Th...
- 2019
Chasing the Equinox (2019)
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The ancients hid the secrets of their incredible knowledge of astronomy in their temples and palaces, built to align with the sun, on the same day, all over the world. Revealing our species' obsession with the sun, across thousands of years and every...
- 2024
Bending Light (2024)
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- 2021
Venus: Death of a Planet (2021)
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Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Earth's twin is a planet knocked upside down and turned inside out. Its burned-out surface is a global fossil of volcanic destruction, shr...
- 2000
Nightfall (2000)
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The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with six suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very first Nightfall. Panic erupts...