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.

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

Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known. But what about those who pr...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feat...

Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquietin...

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, ...

Explores achievements of Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft, paving t...

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

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of t...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...

This was the only documentary made in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of 1945. Japanese filmmak...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional...
NUMEC: How Israel Stole the Atomic Bomb and Killed JFK. Terrorists took advantage of the massive we...