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1) Contact
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jeff Lipsky creates a funny and beautifully idiosyncratic portrait of a 28-year-old unemployed astrophysicist about to make the most reckless decision of her life. The family and friends that surround her - some real, dead, and possibly imaginary, come and go as Molly observes the unbreakable bonds of family while deciding what really matters in her life and learning that death is merely a relative thing.
3) Contact
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
4) Galileo
Series
Language
English
Description
Galileo was the extraordinary astronomer and inventor who re-discovered that the Earth travels around the sun, at the risk of his reputation and freedom. For refusing to support a false view of the Universe, he spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.
5) Clara
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a race to find intelligent life in the universe, an astronomer and his free-thinking research partner make an inexplicable discovery that changes how they see the world, and each other.
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this program, learn all about famous astronomers and astrophysicists who have significantly advanced our understanding of the universe. Who were Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Edwin Hubble, Vera Rubin, Stephen Hawking, and Neil De Grasse Tyson? What were their major discoveries, theories, and contributions to astronomy and astrophysics? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with exciting videos and dynamic graphics...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on a story by acclaimed writer Ray Bradbury, It Came From Outer Space starring Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush is a science fiction classic that is as thought-provoking and tantalizing today as it was when it first "landed" on the silver screen. When amateur astronomer John Putnam (Carlson) and his fiancée Ellen Fields (Rush) are stargazing in the desert, a spaceship bursts from the sky and crashes to the ground. Just before a landslide buries...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of Galileo Galilei's life, including his scientific achievements and his defense of his controversial theory that the earth revolves around the sun. Also includes how letters from his illegitimate daughter, Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, have shed new light on Galileo's discoveries and his trial for heresy.
9) Galileo
Series
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the brilliant Italian astronomer and mathematician who dared to challenge the accepted teachings of his day. Galileo's work brought him to the attention of the Inquisition and one of history's greatest minds was forced to work his last years under house arrest. Featuring atmospheric specially-filmed dramatised depictions and rare contemporary images, this program vividly recreates Galileo's life and work. It also includes expert...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the Arrival, radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Contact: After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
Lost in space: The year is 2058. With the Earth's resources severely depleted human survival depends upon "The Jupiter Mission." This daring plan will launch an entire family--the Robinsons--into the farthest reaches of hyperspace to colonize "Alpha Prime"...
12) Contact: Sphere
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Contact: Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away. Sphere: Officials find a spaceship that plunged into the Pacific 300 years ago.
13) The arrival
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear...
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