Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "faster-than-light"

1. Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

Stars: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis

Votes: 175,761

2. Battlestar Galactica (2003)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons, a rag-tag fugitive fleet of the last remnants of mankind flees the pursuing Cylons while simultaneously searching for their true home: Earth.

Stars: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber

Votes: 80,273

3. Supernova (I) (2000)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A deep space rescue and recovery spaceship with a crew of 6 receives a distress call from a mining operation 3432 light years away. A rescue operation via dimension jump is made. Bad idea.

Directors: Walter Hill, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Sholder | Stars: James Spader, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, Angela Bassett

Votes: 19,434 | Gross: $14.22M

4. K-PAX (2001)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 193,140 | Gross: $50.34M

5. Space Battleship Yamato (2010)

TV-14 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 2199, the crew of the space battleship Yamato embark on a dangerous journey to the planet Iskandar to acquire a device that will rejuvenate the war-ravaged Earth.

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki, Toshirô Yanagiba, Naoto Ogata

Votes: 6,387

6. Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2012–2013)

TV-14 | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the year 2199, the space battleship Yamato embarks on a voyage to the planet Iscandar, to retrieve a device that will rejuvenate a war-ravaged Earth.

Stars: Mallorie Rodak, Monica Rial, Jamie Marchi, Mike McFarland

Votes: 1,181

7. Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)

Not Rated | 115 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him.

Director: Shinji Aramaki | Stars: Shun Oguri, Haruma Miura, Yû Aoi, Arata Furuta

Votes: 12,889

8. Faster Than Light (2017)

15 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther than he imagined possible.

Director: Adam Stern | Stars: Ty Olsson, Karin Konoval, Aliyah O'Brien, John Torrance

Votes: 1,093

9. Ticking Clock (2011 Video)

R | 101 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.

Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough, Nicki Aycox, Austin Abrams

Votes: 3,531

10. Hyperlight (2018)

17 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

Two elite astronauts wake up in the abyss of space before managing to return to their stranded ship, where they discover the reason behind their mission's catastrophic failure.

Director: Nguyen-Anh Nguyen | Stars: Jeananne Goossen, Peter Shinkoda, Caroline Dhavernas

Votes: 405

11. Food for the Gods (2007)

10 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

On a world light-years from Earth, a beautiful mystic warrior must choose between her people's future and the life of an American astronaut with whom she is in love.

Director: H. Scott Hughes | Stars: Yvette Lu, Danny Dorosh, Takahiro Inoue, Beverly Wu

Votes: 14

12. Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far (2006 TV Movie)

Documentary, Drama

Battlestar Galactica: Told from the perspective of President Laura Roslin, the special tells the story of a refugee fleet of survivors as they flee the destruction of their Twelve Colonies ... See full summary »

Stars: Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Aaron Douglas

Votes: 206

13. Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode: Within the Serpent's Grasp (1998)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

General Hammond has tried everything to get the Senate's decision to shut down his Stargate program undone, but the President personally refuses to 'commit political suicide': the Stargate ... See full summary »

Director: David Warry-Smith | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

Votes: 1,498

14. Fireball XL5 (1962–1963)
Episode: Faster Than Light (1963)

TV-PG | 26 min | Animation, Action, Drama

The supply line to Space City is placed in jeopardy when Fireball XL-5's stabilisers break down.

Director: Bill Harris | Stars: David Graham, Sylvia Anderson, Paul Maxwell, John Bluthal

Votes: 17

15. Flash Gordon (1954–1955)
Episode: The Lure of Light (1955)

Action, Adventure, Family

Over the Commissioner's objections, the Galactic Counsel has released Queen Tridentia, the ruler who started the last galactic war, from prison. The president of the counsel believes the ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Worsley Jr. | Stars: Steve Holland, Irene Champlin, Joseph Nash

Votes: 26

16. The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek (2021–2022)
Episode: Starships A-Z (2022)

48 min | Documentary, History

Kirk, Spock, Picard, Data - the list of great Trek characters is incomplete without the Enterprise, Starfleet's flagship vessel. But Enterprise isn't alone - there's a whole list of ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Volk-Weiss | Stars: André Bormanis, Marc Cushman, Rob Klein, Gates McFadden

Votes: 64

17. Eureka (2006–2012)
Episode: Clash of the Titans (2011)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Preparations for the Titan mission have the unintended consequence of turning the local Eureka environment into Titan's. Meanwhile, Eureka couples struggle to come to terms with each other ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Joe Morton, Erica Cerra

Votes: 378

18. Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky (2011– )
Episode: Quantum Physics - list of Philosophical Interpretations (2020)

23 min | Documentary, Animation

The reality of quantum mechanics is that it is a jumble of mathematical. If you find that unsatisfying, so do physicists. So they put great effort into coming up with an everyday ... See full summary »

Star: Kira Vincent

19. Sixty Symbols (2009– )
Episode: Neutrinos faster than light - Sixty Symbols (2011)

10 min | Documentary

A recent (2011) experiment measuring the speed of neutrinos created at CERN seems to show they are traveling faster than the speed of light. Skeptecism prevails.

Stars: Edmund J. Copeland, Antonio Padilla

20. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: First Second of the Big Bang (2014)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

The first second of the Universe, the creation of everything when space, time, matter and energy burst into existence. It is the most important second in history, which seals the Universe's... See full summary »

Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku

Votes: 117

21. Dark Matter (2015–2017)
Episode: Pilot - Part 1 (2015)

TV-14 | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Six strangers awake amnesic on a marooned and damaged spacecraft. Quickly however they discover their personal talents and from there struggle to understand who they are and what has happened to them.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Marc Bendavid, Melissa O'Neil, Anthony Lemke, Alex Mallari Jr.

Votes: 1,414