Ascension (2009)
• May 2nd, 2009 • 0h 49min
Documentary, Science Fiction
Overview
Definitively proving that all the "B" Science Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s do not hold a candle to the 'real thing,' Pavel Medvedev's surreal 45 minute documentary Ascension is certainly one to look for. Composed entirely out of archival footage, much of it from the Soviet science and space archives, delicately scored and building to an undeniable mood of surreal (perhaps even ominous) energy, it charts (and re-purposed) the progress of man into to the unknown area of space exploration with a flair for creating art out film that was shot by scientists and engineers as a mundane record.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Soviet Hippies
Released on: 2017-06-01
Documentary
The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...
Rich Hall's Red Menace
Released on: 2019-11-05
Documentary, History
2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...
Little Potato
Released on: 2017-03-11
Documentary
Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...
Solaris
Released on: 1972-03-20
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
Dark Side of the Moon
Released on: 2002-10-16
Documentary
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...
Soviet Bus Stops
Released on: 2024-05-24
Documentary
“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film...
Watchmen
Released on: 2009-03-04
Mystery, Action, Science Fiction
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close b...
First on the Moon
Released on: 2005-09-29
Mystery, Science Fiction
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fe...
The Bamboo Saucer
Released on: 1968-10-23
Science Fiction
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States an...
Conquest of Space
Released on: 1955-04-20
Science Fiction
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captai...
Space Master X-7
Released on: 1958-06-01
Science Fiction
A fungus dubbed "Blood Rust" from outer space threatens to destroy the Earth.
Man with a Movie Camera
Released on: 1929-05-12
Documentary
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
For All Mankind
Released on: 1989-11-01
Documentary, History
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...
The Quatermass Xperiment
Released on: 1955-08-26
Science Fiction, Horror
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars b...
The Arrow of Time
Released on: 2017-10-03
Documentary
President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
Kin-dza-dza!
Released on: 1986-12-01
Comedy, Science Fiction
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dz...
Michael Jackson: Moscow Case 1993
Released on: 2011-01-01
Documentary
The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...
Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
Released on: 2020-01-08
Documentary, History, TV Movie
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
The Paper Brigade
Released on: 2018-03-15
Documentary, History
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Released on: 1958-07-31
Science Fiction, Horror
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the resc...