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1. Men in Black (1997)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
James, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 614,090 | Gross: $250.69M
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 70,051 | Gross: $24.95M
3. Jungle (I) (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Thomas Kretschmann, Alex Russell, Joel Jackson
Votes: 63,774
4. Fantasia (1940)
G | 124 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Corey Burton
Votes: 104,154 | Gross: $76.41M
5. Cosmos (1980)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.
Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn, Jean Charney
Votes: 44,380
6. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,907
7. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.
Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr.
Votes: 13,853 | Gross: $10.94M
8. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)
PG | 156 min | Documentary, Drama
Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.
Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman, Armin Shimerman
Votes: 2,931 | Gross: $0.14M
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: 5,550
10. Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,462
11. 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: 4,423
12. The 400 Tricks of the Devil (1906)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,370
13. Egon & Dönci (2007)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Egon and Dönci are two lonely inhabitants on a distant solar-system's tiny planetary. Egon is an amateur "space-exploratory" trying to seem very moderate, but his deeds are dogged by ... See full summary »
Director: Ádám Magyar
Votes: 741
14. Little Buck Cheeser (1937)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Little Cheeser and his friends, inspired by Buck Rogers (and visions of cheese), build a rocket ship and fly to the moon.
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Jeanne Dunne, Bernice Hansen, Leone Le Doux, Shirley Reed
Votes: 265
15. Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia (2007)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short
If it weren't for a series of cataclysmic events, a comet impact being first on the list, our planet could well still be the domain of dinosaurs. Following Pr Rodolfo Coria, a world-reknown... See full summary »
Director: Marc Fafard | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rodolfo Coria
Votes: 468
16. Journey of the Universe (2011)
TV-G | 56 min | Documentary
The Emmy Award winning JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE tells an epic story of cosmic, Earth and human transformation from The Big Bang to today. Evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and ... See full summary »
Directors: David Kennard, Patsy Northcutt | Star: Brian Thomas Swimme
Votes: 247
17. The Milky Way (1940)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Three Little Kittens tie helium balloons to a basket and travel up to the Milky Way, which is filled with all the milk they can drink.
Director: Rudolf Ising | Stars: Geneva Hall, Jeanne Dunne, Bernice Hansen, The Rhythmettes
Votes: 858
18. Our Heavenly Bodies (1920)
70 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Documentary on physics and astronomy.
Director: Hanns Walter Kornblum | Stars: Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion
Votes: 171
19. The Powers of the Universe (2004 Video)
Documentary
Brian Swimme, the mathematical cosmologist, discusses eleven powers of the universe: seamlessness, centration, allurement, emergence, homeostasis, cataclysm, synergy, transmutation, transformation, interrelatedness and radiance.
20. In the Night Kitchen (1987)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
Sendak's classic comic fantasy of Mickey's adventures in the night kitchen tells us how we get our morning cake.
Director: Gene Deitch | Star: Peter Schickele
Votes: 84
21. The Stork Market (1931)
Animation, Short
On a cloud, the storks that deliver babies also manufacture them with a machine. We see it stamp out several. The noon whistle sounds in the dispatch room, and only clerk Krazy is still on ... See full summary »
Directors: Manny Gould, Ben Harrison
Votes: 19
22. The Stork Market (1949)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The audience takes a tour through a baby factory run by storks. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Pretty Baby".
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Al Eugster | Stars: Sid Raymond, Jack Mercer
Votes: 30
23. Living Scilly (2021)
8 min | Documentary, Short
In Living Scilly, filmmaker Octavia Sanger explores the lives of Scillonian entrepreneurs and visionaries, from dramatic changes in income generation at Troytown Farm, to a leap into space ... See full summary »
Director: Octavia Sanger
24. Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way (2014)
7 min | Documentary, Short
For 20 years, ESO's Very Large Telescope and the Keck telescopes have observed the centre of our Galaxy, looking at the motion of more than a hundred stars and identifying the position of the super-massive black hole at its centre.
Director: Lars Lindberg Christensen
25. Seeing the Beginning of Time (2017)
47 min | Documentary
Astronomers have begun one of the most far-reaching efforts to study the cosmos. They are forging giant new telescopes, while marshaling vast computational power. These technologies are ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Lucas
Votes: 76
26. Swiss Starlight Express (2016)
5 min | Documentary, Short
A Journey by train through the beautiful landscape of Switzerland with scenes of the starry night skies of some of the most beautiful Alpine regions.
Director: Markus Eichenberger | Star: Model Sabrina
27. Alien Planet Earths (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Scientists use different means to locate other "earths" throughout space and tell how they do it and what they have found or haven't found.
Director: Mark Bridge | Star: Mike Rowe
Votes: 30
28. Aria Kalsan: Pearls Before Swine (2009)
43 min | Short, Drama
Two hired Kalsan investigate the murder of a despised mining boss and the disappearance of a charismatic political revolutionary on the desolate but mineral rich planet of Mari.
Director: Jon E. Wilhelm | Stars: Christina Capadona, Michelle McCluggage, Chuck Cavanaugh, Michael Reddy
Votes: 22
30. Could Human Civilization Spread Across the Whole Galaxy? (2016)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Star: Addison Anderson
32. MTJP: Olympic (2014)
4 min | Documentary, Short
First of a projected 59 short nature films created by Jim and Will Pattiz to celebrate the beauty and diversity of America's national parks. The brothers spent 30 days hiking, camping and ... See full summary »
Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz
33. MTJP: Joshua Tree (2015)
5 min | Documentary, Short
This short nature film explores the boulder piles, cactus fields, twisted Joshua trees and desert vistas protected by Joshua Tree National Park.
Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz
34. MTJP: Acadia (2015)
5 min | Documentary, Short
Jim and Will Pattiz spent 15 days exploring Acadia National Park in Maine to film it at the peak of the fall foliage's brilliance. The park consists of mountains that loom above the rugged ... See full summary »
Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz
35. MTJP: Smoky Mountains (2014)
4 min | Documentary, Short
Short nature film with music but no dialogue providing beautiful images of fall foliage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from numerous vantage points within its borders along the North Carolina/Tennessee Border.
Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz
36. Martin & Ketil på Mælkevejen 3D (2006)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure, Family
Martin & Ketil on adventure in the Milky Way.
Stars: Martin Keller, Ketil Teisen
37. How Many Universes Are There? (2012)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Andrew Park | Star: Chris Anderson
39. N-Truders (2016 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
A space armada moving unchallenged from system to system in search of unexploited life poses a threat to a new world, your home planet.
Stars: Melanie Smith, Vincent van Ommen
40.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Mars and Beyond
(1957)
Unrated | 53 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
With help of technical advisers Dr. Wernher von Braun, Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, and Dr. E. C. Slipher. Walt presents a humorous look at what man might find on Mars, with predictions for exploration of the planet with an atomic spaceship.
Director: Ward Kimball | Stars: Paul Frees, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, E.C. Slipher
Votes: 282
41.
Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996–2009)
Episode:
Honesty
(1996)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Zach is sorely tempted to touch his dad's beautiful antique camera, despite promising not to - and when he does, he breaks it and lies that it fell off its display table naturally. Plato ... See full summary »
Director: Joanna Romersa | Stars: Irene Bedard, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Jennifer Hale
Votes: 39
42.
Cosmos (1980)
Episode:
The Backbone of Night
(1980)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Carl Sagan looks at the work of ancient Greek scientists and astronomers including Thales, Anaximander, Democritus, and Pythagoras.
Directors: Adrian Malone, David Kennard | Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík
Votes: 548
43.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Enlightenment: Part Two
(1983)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Captain Striker and his officers reveal themselves to be Eternals, mind-reading creatures who live outside of time and who require Ephemerals (humans and other "time dwellers") to relieve ... See full summary »
Director: Fiona Cumming | Stars: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Keith Barron
Votes: 438
44.
Muppet Babies (1984–1991)
Episode:
Where No Muppet Has Gone Before
(1987)
TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The kids learn about space from Beaker and Dr. Honeydew, which further stimulates their active imagination.
Directors: Ray Lee, Bob Richardson | Stars: Greg Berg, Dave Coulier, Katie Leigh, Laurie O'Brien
Votes: 21
45.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Monster of the Milky Way
(2006)
TV-G | 54 min | Documentary
Directors: Julia Cort, Thomas Lucas | Stars: Eric Becklin, Gregory Benford, Tiziana Di Matteo, Reinhard Genzel
Votes: 71
46.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Origins: Where Are the Aliens?
(2004)
TV-PG | Documentary
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores whether life is unique to Earth. "The elements essential to life as we know it are widespread throughout the universe," Tyson says, but no extraterrestrial life has yet been found. Why?
Directors: Julia Cort, Mark Everest, Alice Harper, Larry Klein, Thomas Levenson | Stars: Frank Drake, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Votes: 63
47.
The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode:
The Milky Way
(2007)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, consists of more than stars and planets. The wide variety of other celestial objects that call the Milk Way home are described. And the Milky Way is not alone but has some nearby companions.
Stars: Erik Thompson, Michelle Thaller, Rob Roy Britt, Mark Morris
Votes: 108
48.
The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode:
Biggest Things in the Universe
(2008)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Compared to the largest things in the universe galaxies are trifles compared to super clusters, voids, lyman alpha blobs, and the cosmic web. But even among the smaller objects such as ... See full summary »
Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Erik Thompson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Matt Malkan, Laura Danly
Votes: 88
49.
Anton Petrov (2012– )
Episode:
Detailed Picture of Another Black Hole Uncovers Unusual Jets - Centaurus A*
(2021)
11 min | Documentary, Animation, News
The Event Horizon Telescope which recently provided an image of the black hole at the center of Messier 87 has now looked at Centaurus A galaxy. It provided high resolution images of ... See full summary »
Star: Anton Petrov
50.
Kurzgesagt: In a Nutshell (2013– )
Episode:
The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison
(2021)
TV-G | 14 min | Documentary, Animation
Black holes come in a variety of sizes. They have an incredible range of sizes and masses ranging from the still theoretical primordial black holes, roughly the size of a proton, all the ... See full summary »
Star: Steve Taylor
Votes: 23