Movies: Astronomy
- 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....
- 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...
- 2019
Forbidden Dream (2019)
Forbidden Dream6.92019HD
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....
- 1988
Mystic Pizza (1988)
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Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut....
- 2023
Insomniacs After School (2023)
Insomniacs After School6.52023HD
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....
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 2012
Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory (2012)
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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...
- 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....
- 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, ...
- 2005
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2005)
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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 ...
- 2012
TimeScapes (2012)
TimeScapes7.22012HD
Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West....
- 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...
- 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...
- 2024
Bending Light (2024)
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- 2021
Beyond Hubble: Launching the Telescope of Tomorrow (2021)
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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....
- 1999
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999)
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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...
- 1907
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon6.01907HD
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...