Movies: Rocket

Discover how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in this half-hour KQED Science documentary. From space tourism to mining the moon to companies ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wav...

Jack's life (and kitchen) is turned upside down when his fridge begins to talk to him....

A 107-minute long message that will be sent by a rocket to aliens who were detected from outside our solar system. The film is about the making of this message, and it follows the building of the space capsule from the signals received until the laun...

A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions....

Three friends are stranded on a road trip and discover untold secrets about one another....

Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting documentary....

"Explorer 1" is the second episode of "Beginnings Of The Space Age". The 60-minute documentary reveals how JPL and the U.S. Army could have been the first to place a satellite into Earth orbit, had they only been given the chance. That opportunity wa...

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"The American Rocketeer" tells the controversial story of aviation engineer Frank Malina, whose fundamental role in the evolution of American rocketry is largely forgotten. Malina, along with a motley crew of amateur rocket enthusiasts and fellow Cal...

Two sad vandals and an unemployed loner await a fabled rocket launch as they roam the wasted spaces and unused corners of a North Carolina river town....

The naughty boy Ott, who spends his school hours lazing and fighting, gets into a launching spaceship and flies into space. This is how exciting and even dangerous adventures begin, during which Ott experiences a long-known truth: you can't go throug...

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philos...

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the fir...

Dangerous climate changes are ravaging Earth and the U.S. government requests an investigation by masked super-scientist Commando Cody. He discovers that the disasters are being caused by space-alien forces from unknown planetary origins....

Animation by Ayano Yamazawa. Music by Keiichi Yasui....

A collection of NASA films, from Project Mercury to the Space Shuttle....

There are times when we face a limitation that seems impossible to solve; just like an astronaut on Earth trying to achieve his dreams of going to the moon. This film tells a story about a countryside kid who dreamed of becoming a filmmaker despite h...