Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cosmic-ray"

1. High Life (2018)

R | 113 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André 3000, Mia Goth

Votes: 41,238 | Gross: $1.23M

2. The Fantastic Four (1994)

PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Family

When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid explorers are given incredible powers.

Director: Oley Sassone | Stars: Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith

Votes: 7,612

3. Cosmos (1980)

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary

Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.

Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn, Jean Charney

Votes: 44,605

4. Frozen Planet (2011–2012)

TV-PG | 33 min | Documentary

Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.

Stars: David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Michael Kelem

Votes: 33,064

5. Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 11,743

6. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)

119 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô, Mansaku Fuwa

Votes: 2,856 | Gross: $0.06M

7. The Crawling Eye (1958)

Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.

Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro

Votes: 4,836

8. Hawking (2004 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).

Director: Philip Martin | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins, Christian Rubeck

Votes: 6,370

9. Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)

88 min | Documentary

In this comprehensive cosmology series Stephen Hawking looks at the entire universe, from the Big Bang to the end of time.

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Hawking, Melissa Ricci, Christopher Goh

Votes: 5,554

10. Journey to the Edge of the Universe (2008 TV Movie)

91 min | Documentary, Family

A journey through space and time.

Director: Yavar Abbas | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Sean Pertwee, Paul Essiembre

Votes: 4,428

11. Everyone Is Psychic!: The Movie (2015)

114 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mika Akizuki, Tokio Emoto, Motoki Fukami, Mizuki Hoshina

Votes: 1,095

12. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror

A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters.

Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Alec Mango

Votes: 1,367

13. Women in the Night (1948)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

As World War II nears its end, beautiful women forced to serve as sex slaves in a German officer's club, do what they can to destroy the plans of a cosmic death ray.

Director: William Rowland | Stars: Tala Birell, William Henry, Richard Loo, Virginia Christine

Votes: 214

14. Barjo (1992)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Barjo (nutcase, crap artist), the narrator, is an obsessive simpleton who fills his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of ... See full summary »

Director: Jérôme Boivin | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Consuelo De Haviland

Votes: 321

15. Inside Planet Earth (2009 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary

A fantastical - but factual - journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Director: Martin Williams | Stars: Richard Lintern, Patrick Stewart

Votes: 285

16. Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity (2006)

Not Rated | 25 min | Documentary, Short

A visualization and general introduction to the phenomenon of "black holes", including speculation on their origin and contents.

Director: Thomas Lucas | Star: Liam Neeson

Votes: 57

17. Pervye sovetskie sputniki Zemli (1957)

39 min | Documentary, Short

A summary of the soviet air and space achievements as of the end of 1957 culminating in the launch of the world's satellite Sputnik 1 followed by the launch of the heavier Sputnik 2 with world's first animal on board - space dog Laika.

Directors: Nikolai Chigorin, Maria Slavinskaya

Votes: 8

18. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Supernovas (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

Although supernovas are associated with the death of stars they also seed the universe with heavy elements that comprise rocky planets like Earth and living creatures. Due to their ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Papadopoulos | Stars: Erik Thompson, Alex Filippenko, Don Lamb, Stefan Immler

Votes: 93

19. Naked Science (2004– )
Episode: Monster Black Holes (2008)

Documentary, Adventure

Follow a basic explanation of what a black hole is an how it forms, this program explores what happen near and even inside a black hole based on current theories of gravitation. The great ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Lucas | Stars: Paul Davies, Andrew J.S. Hamilton, Kip Thorne, Tiziana Di Matteo

Votes: 34

20. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Africa Today (2014)

TV-G | Documentary, History

When the super continent Gandwana began to break up into the modern day continents, Africa separated from Europe forming the Tethys Ocean. But Africa changed it's mind. It is now traveling ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Jordane Corbeau, Francis Duranthon, Anna Flori-Lamour, Yann Klinger

Votes: 10

21. MinutePhysics (2011– )
Episode: How to Make Muons (2019)

3 min | Documentary, Animation

If you don't know what muons are and what they're good for you're in luck because Henry will explain. Then you will know what to do with them if you want to follow Henry's instructions to ... See full summary »

Star: Henry Reich

22. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: Dawn Spacecraft Buzzes Largest Asteroid - Final Orbits (2018)

6 min | Documentary, News

After firing its xenon ion engines continuously for six years the Dawn spacecraft has arrived at and gone into orbit around Ceres. Scott explains why it was moved into a very low orbit (... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

23. SciShow Space (2014– )
Episode: 4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics (2021)

10 min | Documentary, News

In an effort to provide more opportunities for space research NASA started the Astrophysics Pioneers program for low budget missions. It is supporting only the top four proposals which, as ... See full summary »

Star: Caitlin Hofmeister

24. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: How Magnetism Shapes the Universe (2021)

19 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Add a Plot

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

25. Launch Pad Astronomy (2011– )
Episode: Oumuamua's mystery is finally solved! (2021)

20 min | Documentary, News

Astronomers think they have narrowed down what the interstellar object Oumuamua is. Based on its behavior as it interacted with the Sun it is probably a fragment of nitrogen ice ejected ... See full summary »

Star: Christian Ready

26. History of the Earth (2020– )
Episode: What Was the "Boring Billion" Really Like? (2021)

36 min | Documentary

For a billion years before plants, insects, fish or any multi-cellular creatures existed life consisted of single celled organisms in the vast oceans. And for that billion years the earth ... See full summary »

27. Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
Episode: The Story of Everything (2010)

TV-PG | 88 min | Documentary

In two mind-blowing hours, Hawking reveals the wonders of the cosmos to a new generation. Delve into the mind of the world's most famous living scientist and reveal the splendor and majesty... See full summary »

Director: Iain Riddick | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Melissa Ricci, Phoebe Haines, Simon Haines

Votes: 349

28. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Everest (2010)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History

The convergence of processes that resulted in the extreme height of Mt. Everest and the other Himalayan mountains is explained in conjunction with the supporting geological evidence.

Director: Louise Astbury | Stars: Corey Johnson, Kenton Cool, Mike Searle, Rowan Whittle

Votes: 30

29. Nova ScienceNow (2005– )
Episode: Can We Make It to Mars? (2011)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary

Nova ScienceNow looks at possible solutions to some of the problems and dangers facing a trip to Mars. It looks at space dangers, space suits, space food, plasma rockets, and profiles Mars rover specialist Vandi Verma.

Directors: Vandi Verma, Sarah Holt, Joshua Seftel | Stars: Clayton Anderson, Edgar Bering, John Callas, Franklin Chang-Diaz

Votes: 63

30. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Worst Days on Planet Earth (2011)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, History

Earth may seem like the most hospitable planet in the solar system. But look again. Startling new discoveries reveal the blue planet has been plagued by more chaos and destruction than ... See full summary »

Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Erik Thompson, Michael Mischna, Laura Danly, Dan Durda

Votes: 60

31. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Is Interstellar Travel Impossible? (2022)

21 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Travel to another star is certainly an ambition objective from an engineering perspective. Given that engineers are incredibly innovative and can engineer anything will physics step up and ... See full summary »

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

32. Anton Petrov (2012– )
Episode: 1000 of Unexplained Radio Filaments Found in Milky Way's Center (2022)

12 min | Documentary, Animation, News

Astronomers have seen strange filament like structures in the Milky Way and other galaxies for about four decades. More recently they have been observed in the x-ray spectrum. Having ruled ... See full summary »

Star: Anton Petrov

33. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Our Place in the Milky Way (2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

Now that the Voyagers have visited the outer planets of the solar system they are heading for new adventures in places astronomers call the Oort Cloud, the heliopause, heliosheath and ... See full summary »

Director: James Grant Goldin | Stars: Erik Thompson, Laura Danly, Alex Filippenko, Clifford V. Johnson

Votes: 55

34. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond the Periodic Table? (2022)

21 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Let's take a deep dive into stability of atomic nuclei and see where it take us toward finding unknown elements.

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

35. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction? (2023)

17 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

A supernova 2.7 million years ago may have caused a minor mass extinction and started the ice age of the Pleistocene. Suppose it was closer. At the present time there is one candidate that could effect life on Earth.

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

36. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Space Men (2016)

TV-PG | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History

U.S. Air Force pilots and scientists lay the groundwork for the U.S. space program through project "Man High".

Director: Amanda Pollak | Stars: Burkhard Bilger, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Francis French

Votes: 112

37. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Scanning the Pyramids (2018)

Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary, History, War

Scientists perform a non-invasive internal scan of the Great Pyramid of Giza using radiation no one can see and most have never heard of. They find there's something big and as yet undiscovered inside.

Stars: Paul Bandey, Geoffrey Bateman, Martin Bommas, Andy Chase

Votes: 79

38. One Strange Rock (2018)
Episode: Escape (2018)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary

Astronaut Chris Hadfield believes the only chance for human survival is to escape from Earth and build a space colony, but there are real barriers.

Director: Graham Booth | Stars: Will Smith, Chris Hadfield, Ty Bowen, Iain Kerr

Votes: 300