Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "rocket-scientist"

1. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen

Votes: 197,476

2. F9: The Fast Saga (2021)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Dom and the crew must take on an international terrorist who turns out to be Dom and Mia's estranged brother.

Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson

Votes: 161,875 | Gross: $173.20M

3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki

Votes: 332,149 | Gross: $45.45M

4. Flash Gordon (1980)

PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol

Votes: 61,450

5. October Sky (1999)

PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen

Votes: 97,791 | Gross: $32.48M

6. Joey (2004–2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

In this spin-off of Friends (1994), Joey Tribbiani moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career.

Stars: Matt LeBlanc, Paulo Costanzo, Drea de Matteo, Andrea Anders

Votes: 44,172

7. The Box (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With the press of a button, a wooden box bestows riches and death.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn

Votes: 95,268 | Gross: $15.05M

8. Kim Possible (2002–2007)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A high school cheerleader and her clumsy best friend balance their duties as global crime-fighters with the typical challenges of adolescence.

Stars: Christy Carlson Romano, Will Friedle, Nancy Cartwright, Tahj Mowry

Votes: 32,173

9. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)

PG | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. However, he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother and sister - who all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Dylan Minnette

Votes: 46,565 | Gross: $66.95M

10. Kim Possible (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Heroes Kim and Ron face the problems of starting high school as freshmen when their team gets an addition. Every hero needs a villain and one's just been sprung from prison. Will Kim save the world again or will high school bog her down?

Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein | Stars: Sadie Stanley, Sean Giambrone, Ciara Riley Wilson, Taylor Ortega

Votes: 3,636

11. Rocket Boys (2022– )

45 min | Drama, History

The story of two extraordinary men, Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, who created history while building India's future.

Stars: Jim Sarbh, Saba Azad, Regina Cassandra, Mark Bennington

Votes: 17,961

12. The Russia House (1990)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities. British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the author's editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have met.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox

Votes: 17,520 | Gross: $23.00M

13. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)

Not Rated | 157 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Indian Space Research Organization scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was framed for being a spy and arrested in 1994.

Director: Madhavan | Stars: Madhavan, Simran, Rajit Kapoor, Ravi Raghavendra

Votes: 58,531

14. Moving Violations (1985)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.

Director: Neal Israel | Stars: John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, Brian Backer

Votes: 4,337 | Gross: $10.60M

15. Operation Crossbow (1965)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Drama, War

Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills

Votes: 5,502

16. The Good German (2006)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation that involves his former mistress and his driver.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges

Votes: 26,075 | Gross: $1.31M

17. Close to the Enemy (2016)

59 min | Drama

A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Lucy Ward, Charlotte Riley, August Diehl

Votes: 1,306

18. Kim Possible: So the Drama (2005 TV Movie)

TV-G | 71 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Kim's heart is quickly captured by the new boy, Eric, who soon becomes her boyfriend. Unknown to Kim, her best friend and sidekick, Ron has developed stronger feelings toward her.

Director: Steve Loter | Stars: Christy Carlson Romano, Will Friedle, Nancy Cartwright, Tahj Mowry

Votes: 5,023

19. Missile to the Moon (1958)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Escaped cons stowaway on a flight to the moon and discover alien women ruled by a sadistic queen.

Director: Richard E. Cunha | Stars: Richard Travis, Cathy Downs, K.T. Stevens, Tommy Cook

Votes: 1,492

20. Monster from Green Hell (1957)

Approved | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters.

Director: Kenneth G. Crane | Stars: Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner

Votes: 1,363

21. Quatermass II (1955)

188 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror

Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, ... See full summary »

Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone

Votes: 479

22. Space (1985)

780 min | Drama

A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970s.

Stars: James Garner, Susan Anspach, Blair Brown, Bruce Dern

Votes: 258

23. The Last Escape (1970)

G | 90 min | Action, Drama, War

During the final days of WW2, an Allied commando team races toward a German rocket base to abduct a Nazi scientist before the fast advancing Soviet troops could reach him.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Stuart Whitman, John Collin, Martin Jarvis, Pinkas Braun

Votes: 285

24. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

Unrated | 83 min | Drama

A Chinese man travels to America to visit his daughter after her recent divorce. Though his trip starts off as a mission to see his daughter remarry, he sparks to an Iranian woman who, despite their language barrier, captures his heart.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Henry O, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Feihong Yu, Vida Ghahremani

Votes: 1,173 | Gross: $0.08M

25. Body of the Prey (1967)

Unrated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A NASA scientist turns a Venus Flytrap into a monstrous humanoid while on vacation in Japan.

Director: Norman Earl Thomson | Stars: James Craig, Tota Kondo, Lawrence O'Neill, Al Ricketts

Votes: 681

26. Hold On! (1966)

Not Rated | 85 min | Musical, Comedy

British beat group Herman's Hermits, on tour in the USA, is offered an opportunity to have a spaceship named after the group. Several people seem to care whether it happens or not.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood, Derek Leckenby

Votes: 368

27. Kim Possible: The Secret Files (2003 Video)

72 min | Animation, Family, Action

The first video compilation of four episodes of Kim Possible.

Directors: Chris Bailey, David Block | Stars: Christy Carlson Romano, Will Friedle, Nancy Cartwright, Tahj Mowry

Votes: 967

28. Ukroshcheniye ognya (1972)

166 min | Biography, Drama, History

About Soviet space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.

Director: Daniil Khrabrovitsky | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Ada Rogovtseva, Igor Gorbachyov, Andrei Popov

Votes: 402

29. The Rocket Post (2004)

112 min | Drama

A German rocket scientist arrives on a small Scottish island in the mid 1930s. He's there to run tests on a new type of rocket that is to be used for mail delivery between the island and ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Whittaker | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Shauna Macdonald, Gary Lewis, Kevin McKidd

Votes: 368

30. Hitler's Space Rocket (2015 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary

The Nazis knew it was their last chance. The British knew it was the deadliest threat they'd ever face. And the Americans knew it could fall into the wrong hands. The V2 rocket quickly ... See full summary »

Director: Andreas Gutzeit | Stars: Nico Birnbaum, Christian Harting, Ralf Tempel, Volkram Zschiesche

Votes: 33

31. Stark Mad Astronauts (1962)

79 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A scientist decides to start a space program. He enlists a handyman to help build the ship, his chauffeur, and a friend to guard their workshop.

Director: Sokrates Kapsaskis | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Stavros Xenidis, Kostas Voutsas, Efi Oikonomou

Votes: 79

32. The White Cliffs Mystery (1957)

32 min | Crime, Short

Scotland Yard detectives investigate the suspicious death of a rocket scientist and discover the man was being blackmailed by his secretary, who intern was threatened by foreign agents.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Julian Strange, Alan Robinson

Votes: 46

33. She Said Lenny (2010)

8 min | Short, Comedy

Ellen's first date with the 'man of her dreams' is almost perfect. 'Prince Charming' is young, stylish, witty ... but a woman.

Director: Jim Donovan | Stars: Michelle Giroux, Kate Hewlett, Jean-Michel Le Gal

Votes: 70

34. Did We Go? (2005 Video)

57 min | Documentary, Comedy

Documentary filmmaker Aron Ranen travels across the USA to interview former astronauts, mission controllers, scientists and others, in an attempt to prove that NASA actually sent men to the... See full summary »

Director: Aron Ranen | Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Carroll O. Alley, Eugene Cernan, Clancy Hatleberg

Votes: 15

35. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy (2008 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery, Romance

Teen detective Nancy Drew searches for her friend's missing fiancé at a remote castle in the Irish countryside.

Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Evan Mosher, Alycia Delmore, Matt Shimkus

Votes: 71

36. The Mighty Saturns Part I: The Early Saturns (2003 Video)

Documentary, History

The history, development, specifications, accomplishments, and launch footage of America's first heavy-lift space launch vehicles, the Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets.

Stars: John Willyard, Ed Buckbee, Jay Foster, Bob Lindstrom

Votes: 8

37. The Mighty Saturns Part II: The Saturn V (2004 Video)

41 min | Documentary, History

The history, development and testing, specifications, accomplishments, and launch footage of the world's largest heavy-lift space launch vehicle, the Saturn V moon rocket.

Stars: John Willyard, Ed Buckbee

Votes: 9

38. Popular Science, Featuring Moon Rocket (1947)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short

Rocket research with German V-2's at White Sands, New Mexico (with flight camera footage). Also: bathroom gadgets; a one-man hay baler.

Star: Gayne Whitman

39. Destination: 9th Heaven (1997)

91 min | Drama

A Chinese space scientist shows his loyalty to his career and family.

Director: Chun-Man Wong | Stars: Sunny Chan, Winston Chao, Gigi Lai, Tony Ka Fai Leung

Votes: 12

40. What's Going on Up There? (2007)

Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary

People have been talking about space since the first humans lifted their eyes to ponder the stars above. Today opinions about space exploration are as vast as the universe itself. Like many... See full summary »

Director: Maryanne Galvin | Stars: Eric Adkins, Shubber Ali, Maryam Aljoann, Nigel Bird

Votes: 12

41. La maison haute (2005 TV Movie)

86 min | Documentary, History

Through a first-person narrator, archival footage and photographs, and a contemporary camera, Pavel Lounguine uses the Moscow skyscraper where he grew up as a touchstone for looking back to... See full summary »

Director: Pavel Lungin

Votes: 11

42. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Man in Space (1955)

Unrated | 51 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rockets, and the effects of space travel on man are illustrated.

Director: Ward Kimball | Stars: Dick Tufeld, Walt Disney, Heinz Haber, Ward Kimball

Votes: 281

43. Foreign Intrigue (1951–1955)
Episode: Reunion in Berlin (1953)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Cannon's chance meeting with a West Berlin street urchin sends him to the Communist side of the border to meet with the boy's father, a famous rocket scientist who is trapped behind the Iron Curtain.

Director: Hans Lagerkvist | Stars: Jerome Thor, Eva Dahlbeck

44. Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode: Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 2 (1980)

49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

The thrilling adventures of "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" continue in Part Two of "Galactica Discovers Earth, " when Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) dispatches two young pilots, Capt. Troy (Kent ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene

Votes: 202

45. Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode: Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 3 (1980)

49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Troy and Dillon leap back with Jamie to 1944 to stop Xaviar's attempt to help the development of the V-2 rocket at Peenemunde. Later they return to 1980 CA but need to secure their impounded Vipers from U.S. military inspection.

Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene

Votes: 203

46. I Spy (1965–1968)
Episode: Father Abraham (1966)

30 min | Action, Adventure

Some heroes are motivated by duty. Others just want to impress their father. Whatever the reason, Alex and Kelly receive one of their dirtiest assignments; to train a young rocket scientist... See full summary »

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Tony Bill, Austin Willis

Votes: 49

47. MythBusters (2003–2018)
Episode: Confederate Rocket (2005)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV

The American Civil War was fought with polished bayonets, unreliable muskets and bulky cannons. But was that all? Not according to the Mythbusters: Adam, Jamie and the build team join ... See full summary »

Stars: Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara

Votes: 164

48. Beauty and the Geek (2006)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2006)

60 min | Comedy, Reality-TV

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Director: Angelo Abela | Stars: David Mitchell, Alex Purves, Edmund Bolton, Elissa Friday

49. Speed Racer (1967–1968)
Episode: The Man Behind the Mask (1968)

TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A masked maniac takes the Mach 5 team hostage and forces Speed to carry out art gallery robberies.

Directors: Takashi Nishioka, Hiroshi Sasagawa | Stars: Katsuji Mori, Nair Amorim, Jack Curtis, Cleonir dos Santos

Votes: 39

50. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: The Nazi Connection (1987)

TV-MA | Documentary, News

At the end of World War II, some German rocket scientists had their war records "sanitized" so they could be brought to the United States as part of "Project Paperclip", where they became a vital part of the American space program.

Stars: Judy Woodruff, Larry Lewman, Wernher von Braun

Votes: 12