The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically, socially and politically. All these factors gave birth to one of the most prolific film genres in the history of cinema: science fiction, which delighted the audience. Only a few years later, these same spectators saw on their television screens how the Russians launched the Sputnik into space.

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...
An educational film that instructs people on how to survive atomic bombs and the radiation they emit...

How are the sex scenes filmed? What tricks are used to fake the desire? How do the interpreters prep...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...
Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feat...

Discover the meteoric rise of Elon Musk, the man who is transforming the way we think about travel t...

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

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

A featurette detailing NASA's plans for putting humans on Mars over the next twenty or thirty years,...

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

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