Astronomy Movies

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

How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of...

It is the birth of neutrino astronomy. For the first time, astrophysicists can detect extra-terrestrial neutrinos in ice on the South Pole. The...

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian...

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...

The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with six suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - among nature's more spectacular phenomena –...

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...

Cleo, a 43-year-old astronomer who is pregnant and emotionally fragile, is surprised by a visit from Nalu, her half-sister of Indigenous descent. The...

An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.

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

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...

A short documentary of filmmaker Patricio Guzmán interviewing local astronomers.

Richard, an astronomy-obsessed worrier spends his time fantasizing about outer-space and the cosmos, an activity which antagonizes friends and...

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

Reviews the evidence supporting the assertion of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Reveals some research techniques in this field.

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...

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