Space Documentaries

[Columbia42]

From time to time while browsing the forum I come across a mention of a space documentary and think "where was I when that came out?" So here's a place to post interesting space documentaries that you have seen or heard of. (Especially obscure ones that wouldn't be widely advertised.)

I'll start with this one which Urwumpe posted in another thread.
http://www.space-tourists-film.com/en/home.php

It's called Space Tourists and it's about people who wait in the Kazakhstan desert for rocket stages to fall there so they can scavenge for parts.

Here's one about the Soviet space program that I saw a while ago.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230688/

I wouldn't say it's all that well made but the interviews with the cosmonauts are interesting.

I have yet to find a version of this one with English subtitles but it looks interesting
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/tamefire.htm

 

[n72.75]

Black Sky: http://store.discovery.com/detail.php?p=84777

 

[Mister Kite]

Not about "flight", but certainly about space:

Journey to the Edge of the Universe

Great visuals.

 

[Capt_hensley]

The Mighty Saturns Part I: The Early Saturns
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039624/

and of course the sequels to it, Parts 2,and 3, I bought them and they were very entertaining.

They are mostly silent NASA footage taken as B Reels or C Reels. Basically different camera views of the same launch or launches, and a few other spacecraft thrown in for context.

There is also an audio recording of an Apollo reentry about 8 min of black screen audio only tape dump, astronauts talking back and forth with each other in the command module during the reentry

 

[thomasantony]

"In the Shadow of the Moon" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/
"From the Earth to the Moon" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/ - Actually an HBO mini-series/"docudrama" . One of the best I have ever watched.

 

[Topper]

Wonder of the solar system:

http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=747469&Rel=1

(This is only one link but there are more parts)

 

[Star Voyager]

HAIL COLUMBIA!

http://www.imax.com/movies/m/higginsmelissagmailcom/

 

[Columbia42]

I'm reading the book Starman (a biography of Yuri Gagarin) by Piers Bizony and Jamie Doran and I heard there was a documentary by the same name that was made in '98 or something. Does anyone know where to find it?

 

[HarvesteR]

Discovery Science here is airing one now, it's a 'docu-drama' about a manned mission in Mars. I can't remember what it was called exactly, but it looked cool. I didn't quite get a chance to watch in full...

Since it was on Discovery Science, I don't suppose it's very recent... That channel usually airs only re-runs, some of which are starting to become historical ones

(This week I caught one show there, that said ' scientists hope to get it working commercially by the year 2003' :facepalm: )

Cheers

 

[Columbia42]

It might have been Race to Mars. That's yet another one that I can't find anywhere.

 

[edsupagood]

When We Left Earth - Great documentary made by Discovery Channel. From mercury all the way to the shuttle.

The Right Stuff - Is a movie about the Mercury program and how it started.

 

[TMac3000]

Black Sky: http://store.discovery.com/detail.php?p=84777

Loved that one!

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I picked up "When We Left Earth" at the college bookstore last week. Pretty good viewing.

 

[HarvesteR]

It might have been Race to Mars. That's yet another one that I can't find anywhere.

That's probably it :thumbup:

I'll have a look around the interwebs, see if I can find it.

Cheers

 

[Columbia42]

When We Left Earth - Great documentary made by Discovery Channel. From mercury all the way to the shuttle.

The Right Stuff - Is a movie about the Mercury program and how it started.

Those are both awesome! When We Left Earth has a lot of cool footage I hadn't seen before and The Right Stuff was just a great movie all around.

I'm definitely going to watch Black Sky, it sounds really interesting.

 

[ADT187]

I can highly recommend 'Moon Machines' by Discovery. Basically follows the story of the engineers behind each of the major components, CM, LM, Saturns etc. Very good viewing. :thumbup:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1203167/combined