Movies: Astronomy

  • 2009
    400 Years of the Telescope

    400 Years of the Telescope (2009)

    400 Years of the Telescope

    5.82009HD

    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....

    400 Years of the Telescope
  • 1962
    Splendour of the Heavens

    Splendour of the Heavens (1962)

    Splendour of the Heavens

    01962HD

    A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before focussing on a particular house in the suburbs with its own observatory....

    Splendour of the Heavens
  • 2015
    Riding Light

    Riding Light (2015)

    Riding Light

    82015HD

    In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of ligh...

    Riding Light
  • 2021
    The Silent Pulse of the Universe

    The Silent Pulse of the Universe (2021)

    The Silent Pulse of the Universe

    02021HD

    Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by th...

    The Silent Pulse of the Universe
  • 2016
    Pluto encounter

    Pluto encounter (2016)

    Pluto encounter

    02016HD

    Three billion miles away a grand-piano-sized spacecraft is speeding through the outer solar system at nearly 1,000 miles per minute. After nearly a decade in space, the New Horizons space probe will have just 86 seconds to complete its primary missio...

    Pluto encounter
  • 2003
    The Great Year

    The Great Year (2003)

    The Great Year

    92003HD

    The Great Year is a compelling documentary that explores the possibility that the fall of ancient civilizations around the globe, and the rise of modern civilization, might be related to our Sun’s motion around a companion star. The film examines evi...

    The Great Year
  • 2005
    A Sidewalk Astronomer

    A Sidewalk Astronomer (2005)

    A Sidewalk Astronomer

    02005HD

    John Dobson, an 89 year old with a white ponytail and knack for comedy, is the inventor of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which revolutionized astronomy by making large, inexpensive telescopes and deep space observing available to amateur astronomers...

    A Sidewalk Astronomer
  • 2016
    Telescope

    Telescope (2016)

    Telescope

    8.22016HD

    A history of the telescope and a look at the James Webb telescope, and at the universe through the eyes of scientists and telescopes since the beginning....

    Telescope
  • 2000
    Shadow Chasers

    Shadow Chasers (2000)

    Shadow Chasers

    02000HD

    This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - among nature's more spectacular phenomena – are a veritable obsession. The film follows 4 of them as they travel incredible distances to witness the la...

    Shadow Chasers
  • 2008
    Twinkl

    Twinkl (2008)

    Twinkl

    02008HD

    Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert Saint-Rose, known as Zétwall (Star in Creole), aspires to be the first Frenchman to step on the lunar surface....

    Twinkl
  • 2015
    Star Men

    Star Men (2015)

    Star Men

    7.22015HD

    Four exceptional astronomers celebrate 50 years of work and friendship on a return road trip in the southwestern United States, recapturing youthful adventures and recounting each other's influences on the most exciting period in astronomy’s history....

    Star Men
  • 2017
    Black Holes: Messages from the Edge of the Universe

    Black Holes: Messages from the Edge of the Universe (2017)

    Black Holes: Messages from the Edge of the Universe

    52017HD

    It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestrial neutrinos in ice on the South Pole. The fundamental questions of science remain unanswered., how did the universe come to be? What keeps our world...

    Black Holes: Messages from the Edge of the Universe
  • 2019
    Great Pyramid K 2019

    Great Pyramid K 2019 (2019)

    Great Pyramid K 2019

    82019HD

    Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was them, have achieved those shapes in the sculpture sphinx of Sénousret made of Migmatite material, whic...

    Great Pyramid K 2019
  • 2022
    Margherita. La voce delle stelle

    Margherita. La voce delle stelle (2022)

    Margherita. La voce delle stelle

    02022HD

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    Margherita. La voce delle stelle
  • 1985
    Загадки звёздного неба: Наша круглая Земля

    Загадки звёздного неба: Наша круглая Земля (1985)

    Загадки звёздного неба: Наша круглая Земля

    91985HD

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    Загадки звёздного неба: Наша круглая Земля
  • 2022
    ROT54: Armenia's Forgotten Space Giant

    ROT54: Armenia's Forgotten Space Giant (2022)

    ROT54: Armenia's Forgotten Space Giant

    02022HD

    Armenian radio-engineer Arevik Sargsyan has struggled throughout her life to preserve ROT54, a giant telescope built by her uncle in the 1980s. But the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that ROT54 was left abandoned for 30 years. Now, Arevik is atte...

    ROT54: Armenia's Forgotten Space Giant
  • 2021
    Living Worlds

    Living Worlds (2021)

    Living Worlds

    02021HD

    What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetarium show, see how a deeper understanding of Earth might help us locate other living worlds, light years away....

    Living Worlds
  • 2002
    The Real Death Star

    The Real Death Star (2002)

    The Real Death Star

    72002HD

    This documentary examines theories behind the creation of gamma ray bursts, destructive explosions in space that can wipe out entire star systems....

    The Real Death Star
  • 2021
    A Message to the Stars

    A Message to the Stars (2021)

    A Message to the Stars

    72021HD

    For more than 50 years, we’ve been unsuccessfully searching for any evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets has meant the hope of finding them is higher than ever. If any messages could eventually ...

    A Message to the Stars
  • 1959
    Astronomy for You

    Astronomy for You (1959)

    Astronomy for You

    01959HD

    A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms used during the series are fully explained and materials from a number of great observatories and instit...

    Astronomy for You