Space Exploration Movies

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...

A virtual visit aboard the International Space Station, making the dreams of millions of people around the world come true.

A 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system.

In just a few years, Elon Musk has become one of the most influential and wealthy men on the planet. Although the Tesla brand has revolutionized the...

Discover the story of humanity and space exploration as witnessed in the interrelated events of 1968 and 2020.

An exploration of the rise of the modern commercial space industry, tracing how private ambition and public funding reshaped launch, satellite...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the...

A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions.

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that culminated with groundbreaking discoveries in 2015....

For two and a half years we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System and...

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter...

As a new space age dawns, have women come far enough to go farther than they ever have before? This film tells the story of the role women have...

A film in the style of 1950's b-pictures: "X: The Fiend from Beyond Space" and "The Wall People"

NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first...

Nostalgic excerpts of fiction, fairytales and vintage science fiction from a child’s room to way out into the galaxy.

Travel to the edges of our solar system with this unique blend of photographic images, video and computer animation. Hosted by renowned scientist and...