Movies: Astronomy

  • 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
  • 2023
    Asteroid City

    Asteroid City (2023)

    Asteroid City

    6.42023HD

    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
  • 1988
    Mystic Pizza

    Mystic Pizza (1988)

    Mystic Pizza

    6.31988HD

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

    Mystic Pizza
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2021
    FAST: The Celestial Eye

    FAST: The Celestial Eye (2021)

    FAST: The Celestial Eye

    02021HD

    China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) can detect radio signals emitted tens of thousands of light-years away, and engineers have faced unprecedented challenges in constructing a giant radio receptor nestled amid mountains. Fr...

    FAST: The Celestial Eye
  • 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
  • 2022
    Oliver's Universe

    Oliver's Universe (2022)

    Oliver's Universe

    5.92022HD

    The year is 1985. Oliver, a boy with an overflowing imagination, moves with his family to the southernmost corner of Europe, just as Halley's Comet is about to pass by. These events will mark a before and after in the emotional life of Óliver, who wi...

    Oliver's Universe
  • 1874
    Passage of Venus

    Passage of Venus (1874)

    Passage of Venus

    6.41874HD

    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
  • 2012
    TimeScapes

    TimeScapes (2012)

    TimeScapes

    7.32012HD

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

    TimeScapes
  • 1991
    Bury Me High

    Bury Me High (1991)

    Bury Me High

    5.41991HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Max Minsky and Me

    Max Minsky and Me (2007)

    Max Minsky and Me

    5.82007HD

    Nerdy Jewish Nelly Sue Edelmeister, daughter of a New York mother and Berlin musician in Berlin gets straight A's, except for gym. When she hears her dream prince, actual royal Edouard, a fellow astronomy buff who studies in Luxemburg, patronizes the...

    Max Minsky and Me
  • 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
    Nostalgia for the Light

    Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

    Nostalgia for the Light

    7.42010HD

    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
  • 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
  • 2022
    Searching for Planet 9

    Searching for Planet 9 (2022)

    Searching for Planet 9

    7.62022HD

    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
  • 2009
    400 Years of the Telescope

    400 Years of the Telescope (2009)

    400 Years of the Telescope

    52009HD

    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
  • 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