Curated playlist
Films about astronauts
- Moonshot (2009 film)Moonshot is a 2009 British television film that sets out to dramatize the events leading up to one of the most closely watched moments of the twentieth century: the landing of Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle on the surface of the Moon on…
- In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film)In the Shadow of the Moon arrived at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival carrying ten first-person accounts of what it felt like to leave Earth behind. The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance, then opened to limited release in…
- When We Left Earth: The NASA MissionsWhen We Left Earth: The NASA Missions arrived on Discovery Channel on the 8th of June 2008, timed precisely to mark fifty years of NASA. Six episodes, three Sunday nights, two hours at a stretch. By the final credits on the 22nd of June,…
- Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3DMagnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D dropped into IMAX theaters on the 23rd of September 2005, inviting audiences to stand on the lunar surface alongside the twelve astronauts who actually walked there. The film is a rare…
- Moonwalk OneMoonwalk One is a 1971 documentary film about Apollo 11 that almost did not exist. Six weeks before the most watched rocket launch in human history, NASA called director Theo Kamecke and asked if he could make a film for $350,000. The…
- Footprints on the Moon (1969 film)Footprints on the Moon: Apollo 11 is a 1969 documentary film that captured one of humanity's most watched events while it was still happening. It followed the flight of Apollo 11 from the moment the vehicle rolled out to the moment the…
- For All Mankind (film)For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film assembled from original footage shot by the astronauts of NASA's Apollo program. It covers missions from Apollo 7 through Apollo 17, the era that carried the first humans to the Moon. But the film…
- 2001: A Space Odyssey2001: A Space Odyssey premiered on the 2nd of April 1968 at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., before an audience that included critics who were, in many cases, baffled. During the New York premiere the following day, 250 people…
- Apollo 11 (2019 film)Apollo 11, the 2019 documentary directed by Todd Douglas Miller, opens not with a narrator's voice but with silence and image: crowds gathering at Launch Complex 39, a Saturn V rocket standing against a Florida sky, and faces of people who…
- Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the Moon. Lovell had already orbited the Moon on Apollo 8. He tells…
- Apollo 18 (film)Apollo 18 is a 2011 found footage horror film built on a single, unsettling premise: what if the cancelled Apollo 18 mission actually landed on the Moon in December 1974 and never came back? Written by Brian Miller and directed by Gonzalo…