John Dobson, an 89 year old with a white ponytail and knack for comedy, is the inventor of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which revolutionized astronomy by making large, inexpensive telescopes and deep space observing available to amateur astronomers around the world.

Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césai...

A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...

This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scien...

The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens abov...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotogr...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...

Documentary which uses the latest, most detailed imagery to reveal the monthly life cycle of the moo...

The sun is the miracle that makes everything possible - but also the greatest danger. For the first ...

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the...

A film about astronomy which also happens to show views of the ancient city of Winchester, before fo...

What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetar...

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...

Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...