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1. For All Mankind (2019– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.
Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall
Votes: 69,280
2. Hidden Figures (2016)
PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Votes: 255,364 | Gross: $169.61M
3. Apollo 13 (I) (1995)
PG | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, History
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Votes: 315,691 | Gross: $173.84M
4. The Shape of Water (2017)
R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones
Votes: 447,770 | Gross: $63.86M
5. First Man (2018)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 202,306 | Gross: $44.94M
6. Dr. No (1962)
PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 179,452 | Gross: $16.07M
7. The Right Stuff (1983)
PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 65,363 | Gross: $21.50M
8. October Sky (1999)
PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen
Votes: 98,076 | Gross: $32.48M
9. From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, History
Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Nick Searcy, Lane Smith, David Andrews
Votes: 13,229
10. The Right Stuff (2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History
U.S. fighter pilots are recruited to test experimental aircraft and rockets to become first Mercury astronauts. TV adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book, 'The Right Stuff'.
Stars: Patrick J. Adams, Jake McDorman, Colin O'Donoghue, Patrick Fischler
Votes: 4,208
11. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001 Video)
47 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on the evidence which shows that the Apollo 11 astronauts never actually landed on the moon.
Director: Bart Sibrel | Stars: Anne Tonelson, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins
Votes: 706
12. Apollo 11 (I) (2019)
G | 93 min | Documentary, History
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Deke Slayton
Votes: 27,221 | Gross: $9.04M
13. Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington (1987 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A friend of Miss Marple's sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists professional housekeeper, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to go undercover.
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Joan Hickson, Juliette Mole, David Beames, Mona Bruce
Votes: 2,472
14. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
TV-14 | 118 min | Documentary, History
Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg, Oliver Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Votes: 4,236
15. Summer of Rockets (2019)
60 min | Drama
Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.
Stars: Toby Stephens, Keeley Hawes, Lily Sacofsky, Linus Roache
Votes: 2,162
16. Operation Avalanche (2016)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andrew Appelle, Jared Raab
Votes: 7,967 | Gross: $0.06M
17. Artists and Models (1955)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 4,384 | Gross: $9.35M
18. Totems (2021– )
52 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1965, in the midst of the Cold War, a French rocket scientist is thrown in the field for a nearly impossible spy mission and falls for a Soviet woman secretly working for the KGB.
Stars: Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 968
19. Destination Moon (1950)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
"Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson
Votes: 4,694 | Gross: $5.00M
20. Countdown (1967)
Approved | 101 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore, Barbara Baxley
Votes: 2,585
21. G.O.R.A. (2004)
127 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
Director: Ömer Faruk Sorak | Stars: Cem Yilmaz, Özge Özberk, Ozan Güven, Safak Sezer
Votes: 66,927
22. Spacewalk (2017)
137 min | Drama, History
Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
Director: Dmitriy Kiselev | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov
Votes: 8,082
23. Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Gurgen Tonunts
Votes: 1,100
24. Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
R | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."
Director: Nick Moran | Stars: Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild
Votes: 1,934
25. Fly Me to the Moon 3D (2007)
G | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
Directors: Ben Stassen, Mimi Maynard | Stars: Trevor Gagnon, Philip Bolden, David Gore, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 4,793 | Gross: $14.53M
26. Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Unrated | 121 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
In an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.
Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga | Stars: Leo Morimoto, David Thomas, Mitsuki Yayoi, Heidi Lenhart
Votes: 5,761 | Gross: $0.06M
27. Race to Space (2001)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Family
In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.
Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Alex D. Linz, William Atherton, James Woods, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 982
28. The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.
Director: Norman Panama | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Robert Morley
Votes: 2,781
29. The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff
Votes: 1,920
30. Mercury 13 (2018)
TV-PG | 78 min | Documentary
After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for the spaceflight.
Directors: David Sington, Heather Walsh | Stars: Wally Funk, Rhea Woltman, Sarah Ratley, Bob Steadman
Votes: 1,290
31. I Aim at the Stars (1960)
Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama
The story of rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun's career, from the 1920s until the late 1950s.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala
Votes: 251
32. Apollo: Missions to the Moon (2019)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, History
The Apollo space program: 12 manned-missions, one impossible goal. With rare archival footage and audio, this remarkable documentary sheds new light on an incredible time in human history.
Director: Tom Jennings | Stars: Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Wernher von Braun, Joseph Shea
Votes: 658
33. Space (1985)
780 min | Drama
A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970s.
Stars: James Garner, Susan Anspach, Blair Brown, Bruce Dern
Votes: 259
34. Gagarin. Pervyy v kosmose (2013)
108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Gagarin blasted off in a Vostok rocket and he orbited Earth for 106 minutes. He was the cosmonaut who was selected from over three thousand fighter pilots throughout the Soviet Union.
Director: Pavel Parkhomenko | Stars: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Mikhail Filippov, Vladimir Steklov, Vadim Michman
Votes: 3,578
35. Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut (2021)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
In an alternate 1960s, a space program recruits a vampire to serve as an astronaut and go into space.
Stars: Kôki Uchiyama, Megumi Hayashibara, Hina Kino, Takaya Hashi
Votes: 393
36. Cold War (1998)
47 min | Documentary, History
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev
Votes: 1,038
37. The Cosmonaut (2013)
TV-MA | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Stas, the cosmonaut, gets lost in space. When he comes back he finds Earth completely empty of human life. Yulia and Andrei wait for him on the other side of a collapsing world. How far would you go for love?
Director: Nicolás Alcalá | Stars: Katrine De Candole, Leon Ockenden, Max Wrottesley, David Barrass
Votes: 825
38. Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
88 min | Documentary, History
Explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
Director: Ziga Virc | Stars: Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Votes: 3,651
39. Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis (2021)
PG-13 | 36 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
At the height of WWII, a group of young Jewish refugees are sent to a secret POW camp near Washington, D.C. The recent refugees soon discover that the prisoners are no other than Hitler's top scientists.
Directors: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan | Stars: Alfred Bomberg, Arno Mayer, Rudolph Pins, Peter Wiess
Votes: 1,098
40. The Planets (1999)
49 min | Documentary
The Planets is a made for television documentary series that explores in depth the planets that make up our solar system.
Stars: Mark Halliley, Sasa Vasilievski, Jerry Soften, Donald Black
Votes: 1,531
41. Last Exit: Space (2022)
80 min | Documentary
Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.
Director: Rudolph Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Lucianne Walkowicz
Votes: 209
42. Earthworm Jim (1994 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a spacesuit falls on Jim, it mutates him into an earthworm hero thus Earthworm Jim is born. He must now defeat the evil Queen Slug-for-a-butt and rescue her sister, Princess What's Her Name.
Director: David Perry | Star: Doug TenNapel
Votes: 932
43. It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)
54 min | Documentary, History, Music
The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959; it uses archive footage and American pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.
Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: H. Rap Brown, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon
Votes: 930
44. What Happened on the Moon? - An Investigation Into Apollo (2000 Video)
225 min | Documentary
An in-depth British breakdown of how NASA never had the technology to overcome putting a man on on the moon or anywhere further than low orbit from the Apollo moon missions even today with ... See full summary »
Director: David S. Percy | Stars: Ronnie Stronge, H.J.P. Arnold, Mary Bennett, Ian Crawford
Votes: 88
45. Mouse Into Space (1962)
TV-G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Jerry reads that there are no cats in outer space, so he signs up for a trip but Tom ends up stowing away anyhow.
Director: Gene Deitch | Star: Allen Swift
Votes: 451
46. Moon Shot (1994 TV Movie)
188 min | Documentary
This mini-series is a documentary that chronicles the NASA space program from its inception up through the final moon mission of Apollo 17 with historical, archived NASA film footage.
Director: Kirk Wolfinger | Stars: Barry Corbin, Buzz Aldrin, Jay Barbree, Sam Beddingfield
Votes: 242
47. Sputnik Fever (2007)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
Documentary looking back at the USSR's Sputnik satellite and its effects at the time and over the last 50 years.
Director: David Hoffman | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Gene Banucci, Jay Barbree, Paul Dickson
Votes: 129 | Gross: $0.01M
48. Ukroshcheniye ognya (1972)
166 min | Biography, Drama, History
About Soviet space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
Director: Daniil Khrabrovitsky | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Igor Gorbachyov, Andrei Popov
Votes: 402
49. Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary
A documentary which maintains that the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts, telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age.
Director: Michael Lachmann | Stars: Paul McGann, Yuri Gagarin, Wernher von Braun, Gerard J. DeGroot
Votes: 170
50. Space Race to SpaceX (2021)
Documentary, Adventure
Out of the necessity of war, out of humanities darkest hours came the birth of technology that would carry us into the future, into space and beyond. The Space Race will always be a ... See full summary »
Director: Danielle Winter | Stars: Jim Bridenstine, Chris Carberry, Monica Grady, James L. Green
Votes: 13