Astronomy for You (1959)
• January 1st, 1959 • 6h 15min
Documentary
Overview
A series of programs designed for the adult layman who has a curiosity about the skies and the makeup of the universe in which we live. The terms used during the series are fully explained and materials from a number of great observatories and institutions of learning are used for visual illustration. It begins with the solar system and works outward, stimulating interest in this area and awakening a desire for further study and investigation.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Questioning City
Released on: 1959-06-25
Documentary
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963...
Riding Giants
Released on: 2004-07-09
Documentary
Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Dir...
Another Side of the Forest
Released on: 1974-05-10
Documentary
Developments in the Canadian forestry industry during the 1970s are shown being carried out both as ...
Rocketmen
Released on: 2009-08-21
Documentary
A documentary about the courage, bravery and triumph of the "Rocket Men" of the U.S. manned space pr...
Reading Signs is Fun
Released on: 1967-08-01
Documentary
Presents an inductive experience in reading readiness. Shows a young boy as he interprets the meanin...
Norimono Daisuki! New Tetsudou Special 50
Released on: 2012-12-07
Family, Documentary
"Tetsudou" version of the series full of popular vehicles for children. Fifty kinds of trains select...
Keeping Clean and Neat
Released on: 1956-08-09
Documentary
Two eighth graders doing an assembly on cleanliness and neatness seek underclassmen. A look into Don...
Cosmic Fireballs
Released on: 2001-10-01
Documentary
214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the im...
Lunar
Released on: 2017-05-11
Documentary
In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...
The Once and Future Griffith Observatory
Released on: 2006-05-31
Documentary
Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
Almost Arcady
Released on:
Documentary
Educational film about Cyprus - landscape, people, work, traditions etc.
2012: Time for Change
Released on: 2010-10-08
Documentary
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable soc...
The Inner Life of the Cell
Released on: 2006-01-01
Documentary, Animation
This short film, commissioned by Harvard University, illustrates the elegant mechanisms by which a w...
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway
Released on: 2017-05-09
Documentary
It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...
My Dead Body
Released on: 2022-12-05
Documentary
The extraordinary moving story of Toni Crews, a young mum with a rare terminal cancer who charted he...
Cielo
Released on: 2017-10-06
Documentary
The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens abov...
Venus: Death of a Planet
Released on: 2021-08-28
Documentary, TV Movie
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...