Astronomy Movies

For more than 50 years, we’ve been unsuccessfully searching for any evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But, the discovery of...

The Faraway Nearby follows the tragic life of pioneer physicist Joseph Weber, whose pursuit of gravitational waves takes him on a dizzying journey...

For thirty years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered new alien worlds, black holes, and the age of the universe itself; NASA astronauts...

A look at the Sun, the star that revolves at the center of the Solar System, and its representation in art throughout history.

A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

Based on more than two decades of systematic research and cross-cultural comparison by comparative mythologist David Talbott, Remembering the End of...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors...

A short documentary about an engineer in a Chilean observatory.

A half-century after American astronauts walked on the Moon, NASA and its international partners are taking the dream of Apollo a giant step further....

Canada is leading the way when it comes to dark sky preservation and the fight against light pollution. See how dark sky preserves in Wood Buffalo,...

A short documentary interviewing an astronomer.

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...