Movies: Astronomy

  • 2023
    Asteroid City

    Asteroid City (2023)

    Asteroid City

    6.52023HD

    In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events....

    Asteroid City
  • 1997
    Contact

    Contact (1997)

    Contact

    7.41997HD

    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...

    Contact
  • 2019
    Forbidden Dream

    Forbidden Dream (2019)

    Forbidden Dream

    6.92019HD

    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....

    Forbidden Dream
  • 1988
    Mystic Pizza

    Mystic Pizza (1988)

    Mystic Pizza

    6.21988HD

    Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut....

    Mystic Pizza
  • 2023
    Insomniacs After School

    Insomniacs After School (2023)

    Insomniacs After School

    6.52023HD

    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....

    Insomniacs After School
  • 2010
    Journey to Palomar, America's First Journey Into Space

    Journey to Palomar, America's First Journey Into Space (2010)

    Journey to Palomar, America's First Journey Into Space

    02010HD

    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...

    Journey to Palomar, America's First Journey Into Space
  • 1874
    Passage of Venus

    Passage of Venus (1874)

    Passage of Venus

    6.31874HD

    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...

    Passage of Venus
  • 2023
    The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See

    The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See (2023)

    The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See

    6.52023HD

    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 ...

    The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See
  • 1991
    Bury Me High

    Bury Me High (1991)

    Bury Me High

    5.71991HD

    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...

    Bury Me High
  • 2012
    Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory

    Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory (2012)

    Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory

    02012HD

    This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s. Self-educated, and often facing unrelenting hardships, the people associated with the Allegheny Observatory defie...

    Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory
  • 2010
    Nostalgia for the Light

    Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

    Nostalgia for the Light

    7.32010HD

    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....

    Nostalgia for the Light
  • 2019
    Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

    Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)

    Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time

    8.72019HD

    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, ...

    Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
  • 2005
    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege

    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2005)

    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege

    02005HD

    Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4,000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred ...

    Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege
  • 2012
    TimeScapes

    TimeScapes (2012)

    TimeScapes

    7.22012HD

    Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West....

    TimeScapes
  • 2022
    Searching for Planet 9

    Searching for Planet 9 (2022)

    Searching for Planet 9

    7.22022HD

    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...

    Searching for Planet 9
  • 2021
    Venus: Death of a Planet

    Venus: Death of a Planet (2021)

    Venus: Death of a Planet

    7.22021HD

    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...

    Venus: Death of a Planet
  • 2024
    Bending Light

    Bending Light (2024)

    Bending Light

    82024HD

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    Bending Light
  • 2021
    Beyond Hubble: Launching the Telescope of Tomorrow

    Beyond Hubble: Launching the Telescope of Tomorrow (2021)

    Beyond Hubble: Launching the Telescope of Tomorrow

    72021HD

    Following engineers and scientists on a groundbreaking mission as they build, test and launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory ever constructed, and discovers the astonishing cosmological mysteries it will investigate....

    Beyond Hubble: Launching the Telescope of Tomorrow
  • 1999
    The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

    The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999)

    The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

    81999HD

    Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern that mirrors the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year cycle of the moon. How did an ancient civilization, with no known writte...

    The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
  • 1907
    The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

    The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)

    The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon

    6.01907HD

    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...

    The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon