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1) Apollo 11
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE MAGIC OF FLIGHT brings the thrill of flight and jet aircraft technology to the big screen with a film that balances the excitement of a Blue Angels air show with the science and history of flight. The film begins by examining how birds fly and reviews the success of the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903. Steering from earlier flight ventures to modern aviation, audiences are introduced to high-performance jets. The variety and versatility...
3) Armstrong
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatic, moving and insightful, this documentary tells the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in rural Ohio, through aerial combat in Korea, to his first steps on the Moon, and the unwanted celebrity status that ensued.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the next decade, NASA will send astronauts to Mars for the first time. Separated from Earth, and unable to communicate with the ground in real-time, crew members will experience extreme isolation that could gravely affect their three-year journey. This Sundance-premiering documentary follows a savvy NASA psychologist tasked with protecting daring space explorers.
5) Roving Mars
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Join the Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet and discover what no human has ever seen or known before.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped on the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughters' initials in the lunar dust. Only now, over forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss. Cernan's burning ambition carried him from a quiet Chicago suburb to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and ultimately, to the moon.
7) Space men
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon twenty miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. The little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On September 11, 2001, 184 people lost their lives when American Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon. Today, people are surprised to hear that the Pentagon was ever a target. Few know about those who escaped, many terrifyingly close to the impact zone. This is the most complete telling of what happened at the Pentagon on a day that forever changed the world.
9) Space Dogs
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Laika, a stray dog picked up by the Soviet space program on the streets of Moscow, became the first living being to orbit the earth when she was launched into space on Sputnik 2. Although Laika would not survive the journey, directors Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter trace the persistence of her memory and legacy into the present day. As the capsule containing Laika re-entered Earth’s orbit and began to burn up, the narrator announces “What had been...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. Now, for the 50th anniversary, high-quality NASA footage and extensive news broadcasts bring this sensational moment in history bursting back into life. Witness the drama, the excitement, and the triumph as if it was unfolding right before the eyes.
11) Flight 93
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The heartbreaking true story of the heroic passengers and crew aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Trapped onboard a hijacked flight, these ordinary citizens disregarded their own personal safety to bond together and overthrow their terrorist captors.
Language
English
Description
In the Shadow of the Moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first time, and very possibly the last, In the...
13) Apollo 11
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From director, Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA₂s most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
State-of-the-art technology and innovative techniques show the world from an amazing aerial perspective. Viewers can fly along with snow geese dashing through Monument Valley and New York City. Watch Macaws racing through the rainforest, vultures soaring miles above the earth, and more.
16) Journey to space
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping overview of past space accomplishments, current activities and future plans. Using the most spectacular space footage; including unique views of Earth and operations in space; such as deploying and repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. Then goes on to show how the Shuttle launched and assembled the International Space Station (ISS).
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Transports you to the lunar surface, where you can walk alongside the 12 extraordinary astronauts who have been there, experiencing what they saw, heard, and felt. Features rarely seen NASA footage, newly released photographs, CGI and actual live-action renditions of the lunar landscape.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Understand Apollo Thirteen's legacy and lessons for future moon missions. Be inspired by this timely message of hope and perseverance. Features interviews with Apollo Thirteen Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise, as well as Flight Directors Gene Kranz and Glynn Lunney, with engineer Hank Rotter. Parts of their interviews take place in the restored Apollo mission control room. The documentary also features original NASA footage and newly synchronized...
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