Over the centuries only few caravans dared to cross the northern route of the silk road that today lies in the territory of Kazakhstan. In this portion of Asian desert there was no place to build a majestic city nor anything else worth fighting for. Until in 1955 the Soviet government realised that those lands, far as they may be from the rest of the World, were just one step away from the Universe.

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

English

6.6

♡ 13

91%

Val Guest Director

Gordon Jackson as BBC TV producer

John Kerr as Film Lab Technician

George Roderick as Local Policeman

Sam Kydd as Police sergeant questioning Rosie

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Tobor the Great

1954

English

5.2

♡ 11

46%

Lee Sholem Director

Peter Brocco as Dr. Gustav

William Schallert as Johnston - a Reporter

Hal Baylor as Max - Spy-Henchman

Henry Kulky as Paul - Spy-Henchman

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

Operation Crossbow

1965

English

6.6

♡ 15

75%

Michael Anderson Director

John Le Mesurier as British Army Officer

Carl Duering as German Officer Arriving at Rocket Plant

Trevor Howard as Professor Frederick Lindemann

Gordon Jackson as R.A.F. Pilot

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

The Space Children

1958

English

4.3

♡ 7

24%

Jack Arnold Director

Vera Marshe as Frieda Johnson

Jackie Coogan as Hank Johnson

Larry Pennell as Major Thomas

Ray Walker as Reporter Richard Lloyd

A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.

Over the Moon

2020

English

6.3

♡ 90

81%

Glen Keane Director

Margaret Cho as Auntie Ling

Kimiko Glenn as Auntie Mei

Phillipa Soo as Chang'e

Brittany Ishibashi as Lunette #1

Fueled by memories of her mother, resourceful Fei Fei builds a rocket to the moon on a mission to prove the existence of a legendary moon goddess.

Rocketman

2019

English

6.3

♡ 1

89%

Michael Linn Director

Charlotte Dobre as Self

'Mad' Mike Hughes as Self

Waldo Stakes as Self

Patrick Marchese as Self

Rocketman is a hilarious glimpse into the true story of Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes, a flat Earther who made headlines around the globe with his attempt to prove the flat Earth by building a homemade rocket to launch himself into space.

In Like Flint

1967

English

6.1

♡ 7

72%

Gordon Douglas Director

Jean Hale as Lisa

Lee J. Cobb as Lloyd C. Cramden

John Roy as Military Officer

Richard Bull as Newscaster

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.

When Worlds Collide

1951

English

6.6

♡ 14

81%

64%

Action

based on novel or book

Rudolph Maté Director

Forbes Murray as Delegate

Ramsay Hill as French U.N. Representative

Rachel Ames as Julie Cummings

John Roy as Police Officer

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

October Sky

1999

English

7.8

♡ 104

90%

88%

Action

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

rocket

satellite

small town

Joe Johnston Director

Jake Gyllenhaal as Homer Hickam

Chris Cooper as John Hickam

Laura Dern as Miss Riley

Chris Ellis as Principal Turner

Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However, in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, goes into orbit. When Homer sees the Soviet satellite streak overhead, he becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With the help of his friends, and the local nerd, Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of error. Unfortunately, most of the town, and especially Homer's father, thinks that they are wasting their time. Only one teacher understands their efforts and lets them know that they could become contenders in the national science fair with college scholarships being the prize. Now the gang must learn to perfect their craft and overcome the many problems facing them as they shoot for the stars.

In the Shadow of the Moon

2007

English

8.0

♡ 22

95%

David Sington Director

John F. Kennedy as Himself

Neil Armstrong as Himself

Buzz Aldrin as Himself

Nikita Khrushchev as Self

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

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