Over the centuries only few caravans dared to cross the northern route of the silk road that today lies in the territory of Kazakhstan. In this portion of Asian desert there was no place to build a majestic city nor anything else worth fighting for. Until in 1955 the Soviet government realised that those lands, far as they may be from the rest of the World, were just one step away from the Universe.

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

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...

Top Gear presenter James May presents this informative program that examines the historic moon missi...

The Wonder of it All focuses on the human side of the men behind the Apollo missions through candid ...

In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the univ...

Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...

Told through the tales of love of a retiring film projectionist and a late-blooming actress, the sho...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the Moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years late...

The show tells a thrilling story of the most remarkable space mission in human history.

Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on t...

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

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Hor...

Join our host on the International Space Station of the year 2050. Marvel at the three-dimensional s...