Astronomy Movies

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...

China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) can detect radio signals emitted tens of thousands of light-years away, and engineers...

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied recently. What if Prehistoric Man were clever enough...

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,...

A group of renowned cosmologists and astrophysicist are in search of a realistic picture of the universe. Their research and observational...

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

Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert...

Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of...

THE CITY DARK is a feature documentary about the loss of night. After moving to NYC from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney asks a simple question -...

A short documentary about an engineer in a Chilean observatory.

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater

Faced with the risk of collision with the Earth, space agencies are refining their observations on the course of asteroids in our galaxy. A...

Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground,...

Shortfilm based on released by ESA over 400000 images from Rosettas comet mission.

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...

A short documentary of filmmaker Patricio Guzmán interviewing local astronomers.

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

Armenian radio-engineer Arevik Sargsyan has struggled throughout her life to preserve ROT54, a giant telescope built by her uncle in the 1980s. But...