Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "space-program"

1. For All Mankind (2019– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.

Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall

Votes: 68,904

2. Hidden Figures (2016)

PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner

Votes: 255,090 | Gross: $169.61M

3. Apollo 13 (I) (1995)

PG | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, History

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise

Votes: 315,395 | Gross: $173.84M

4. First Man (2018)

PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler

Votes: 202,139 | Gross: $44.94M

5. A Million Miles Away (2023)

PG | 121 min | Biography, Drama

A biopic about Jose Hernandez and his path from a farm worker to becoming an engineer and an astronaut. A tale of perseverance, community and sacrifice to accomplish a seemingly impossible dream.

Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella | Stars: Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Veronica Falcón

Votes: 21,519

6. Capricorn One (1977)

PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston

Votes: 24,708

7. Infiniti (2022)

312 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A dead body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan: it belongs to Anthony Kurz, an American astronaut currently on the ISS. Anna Zarathi, a French astronaut, and Isaak Turgun, a Kazakh cop, set out to solve this mysterious paradox.

Stars: Céline Sallette, Daniyar Alshinov, Vlad Ivanov, Lex Shrapnel

Votes: 873

8. The Right Stuff (1983)

PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid

Votes: 65,326 | Gross: $21.50M

9. Space Cowboys (2000)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

When retired engineer Frank Corvin is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner

Votes: 86,163 | Gross: $90.46M

10. SpaceCamp (1986)

PG | 107 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is accidentally launched into orbit.

Director: Harry Winer | Stars: Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott

Votes: 15,846 | Gross: $9.70M

11. 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: 55,724

12. From the Earth to the Moon (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, History

Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program.

Stars: Tom Hanks, Nick Searcy, Lane Smith, David Andrews

Votes: 13,214

13. Prey (2017 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

Morgan Yu is trapped aboard a space station filled with shape-shifting aliens with no memory of how he got there. Guided by a mysterious stranger and his former self, he must set the station's self-destruct before the aliens reach Earth.

Director: Raphael Colantonio | Stars: Walton Goggins, Benedict Wong, Mae Whitman, James Hong

Votes: 2,267

14. Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

PG-13 | 97 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Milo Coy, Jack Black, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise

Votes: 11,842

15. The Astronaut Wives Club (2015)

TV-PG | 42 min | Drama

Based on Lily Koppel's best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.

Stars: JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominique McElligott, Odette Annable

Votes: 3,402

16. Operation Avalanche (2016)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.

Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andrew Appelle, Jared Raab

Votes: 7,960 | Gross: $0.06M

17. Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.

Stars: June Scobee Rodgers, William Harwood, John Zarrella, Frederick D. Gregory

Votes: 7,928

18. Artists and Models (1955)

Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 4,375 | Gross: $9.35M

19. For All Mankind (1989)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, History

An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.

Director: Al Reinert | Stars: Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan

Votes: 6,523 | Gross: $0.77M

20. Wings of Honneamise (1987)

Unrated | 121 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi

In an alternative Earth, a young astronaut participates in a controversial fledgling space program.

Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga | Stars: Leo Morimoto, David Thomas, Mitsuki Yayoi, Heidi Lenhart

Votes: 5,755 | Gross: $0.06M

21. Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)

88 min | Documentary, History

Explores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.

Director: Ziga Virc | Stars: Slavoj Zizek, Josip Broz Tito, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson

Votes: 3,649

22. Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (2001 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

Were the Apollo moon landings faked?

Director: John Moffet | Stars: Mitch Pileggi, Bill Kaysing, Brian Welch, Brian O'Leary

Votes: 1,007

23. The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)

PG | 96 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts

Votes: 877 | Gross: $0.20M

24. In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

PG | 100 min | Documentary, History

The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.

Director: David Sington | Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan, Mike Collins

Votes: 6,925 | Gross: $1.13M

25. First Signal (2021)

102 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.

Director: Mark Lund | Stars: Paul Noonan, Conor Timmis, Wendy Hartman, Patience McStravick

Votes: 12,127

26. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1998 Video)

Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, Comedy

Executive transvestite Eddie Izzard takes his show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Jordan | Star: Eddie Izzard

Votes: 7,512

27. 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: 259

28. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001 Video)

47 min | Documentary, History

A documentary on the evidence which shows that the Apollo 11 astronauts never actually landed on the moon.

Director: Bart Sibrel | Stars: Anne Tonelson, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins

Votes: 701

29. Flat Earth: The Biggest Lie of All (2015 Video)

90 min | Documentary

What if you've been told the biggest whopper of all time? A lie that has rendered you as nothing more than an insignificant microbe that evolved by accident on the surface of an ... See full summary »

Stars: Dave Murphy, Luca Parmitano, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong

Votes: 78

30. Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut (2021)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

In an alternate 1960s, a space program recruits a vampire to serve as an astronaut and go into space.

Stars: Kôki Uchiyama, Megumi Hayashibara, Hina Kino, Takaya Hashi

Votes: 391

31. Astro (2018)

105 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A billionaire and his team with a private space exploration program, returns to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet, with hidden secrets of his own from this world.

Director: Asif Akbar | Stars: Gary Daniels, Marshal Hilton, Courtney Lynn, Louis Mandylor

Votes: 595

32. Operazione Goldman (1966)

Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Eisley, Wandisa Guida, Diana Lorys, Luisa Rivelli

Votes: 351

33. Moonshot (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, History

The story leading up to the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing launch.

Director: Richard Dale | Stars: Daniel Lapaine, James Marsters, Andrew Lincoln, Nigel Whitmey

Votes: 578

34. When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008)

TV-G | 48 min | Documentary, History

Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise, WHEN WE LEFT EARTH is the incredible story of humankind's greatest adventure, as it happened, told by the people who were there. From the early ... See full summary »

Stars: Gene Kranz, Gary Sinise, Jim Lovell, Eugene Cernan

Votes: 2,043

35. Kosmo (2016– )

Comedy, Sci-Fi

Satirical comedy that with merciless exaggeration tells the story of a fictitious Czech flight to the Moon. While the situation of our heroes in space looks pretty hopeless, back on Earth ... See full summary »

Stars: Jakub Zácek, David Novotný, Petr Vancura, Martin Mysicka

Votes: 304

36. Moon Shot (1994 TV Movie)

188 min | Documentary

This mini-series is a documentary that chronicles the NASA space program from its inception up through the final moon mission of Apollo 17 with historical, archived NASA film footage.

Director: Kirk Wolfinger | Stars: Barry Corbin, Buzz Aldrin, Jay Barbree, Sam Beddingfield

Votes: 241

37. The Clone Returns Home (2008)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

The Clone Returns Home is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning of love and family. Set in an imaginary - yet utterly imaginable - future, this quietly ... See full summary »

Director: Kanji Nakajima | Stars: Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyûsaku Shimada

Votes: 667

38. The Saturn V Story (2014)

52 min | Documentary, History

With the accolade of flying 24 men to the Moon, the Saturn V will always be considered one of Mankind's greatest technological achievements. This inspirational film reveals the colossal challenges NASA faced to make it fly.

Directors: Elliot Weaver, Zander Weaver | Stars: David Baker, Nigel Bannister, Mike Cruise, Anu Ojha

Votes: 422

39. Destination Space (1959 TV Movie)

51 min | Sci-Fi

From space pioneers to modernday missions, it's a thrilling look at man's quest to conquer space.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Harry Townes, John Agar, Charles Aidman, Whitney Blake

Votes: 200

40. Lajka (2017)

88 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Life is not easy for Laika, a dog on the outskirts of a big Russian city. She is caught and forcibly retrained to become a pioneer in astronautics. Soon after her lift-off into space, a ... See full summary »

Director: Aurel Klimt | Stars: Jan Budar, Petr Ctvrtnícek, Helena Dvoráková, Cenek Koliás

Votes: 100

41. Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back (1994 TV Movie)

82 min | Documentary

Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third human spacecraft to successfully land on the moon and return home safely, when, 250,000 miles from earth, these words pierced the vastness of space: "... See full summary »

Directors: Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey | Stars: John Aaron, Amr Abdulgalil, Fred Haise, Mary Haise

Votes: 107

42. The Flat Earth Conspiracy (2014 Video)

89 min | Documentary, History

This movie attempts to prove that the earth is flat. Arguments used are not scientifically proven unfortunately.

Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Bill Anders, Neil Armstrong, Alan Bean

Votes: 29

43. 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

44. The Dream Is Alive (1985)

Not Rated | 37 min | Documentary, Short

Traveling on the Space Shuttle, covers training, launch, flight, deployment of LDEF from Challenger in April 1984 (STS-41C).

Director: Graeme Ferguson | Stars: Walter Cronkite, David Leestma, George Nelson, Sally Ride

Votes: 513

45. Failure Is Not an Option (2003 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary, History

A history of the U.S. manned space program from Mercury to Apollo 17, as seen by the men of Mission Control.

Directors: Rushmore DeNooyer, Kirk Wolfinger | Stars: Gene Kranz, James Doolittle, Christopher Kraft, Robert Seamans

Votes: 139

46. India's Space Odyssey (2021)

47 min | Documentary

India has achieved successful space missions to the Moon and Mars. This is a showcase of India's space programme built painstakingly over six decades, now poised to become one of the leaders in the quest to explore space.

Director: Pria Somiah Alva | Star: Madhavan

Votes: 1,038

47. Kerbal Space Program (2015 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Satellites Rockets Epic Failures! Build them all in KSP

Directors: Felipe Falanghe, John C. Brandstetter

Votes: 160

48. Destiny in Space (1994)

40 min | Documentary, Short

Travel up close astronauts as they repair the Hubble Space Telescope and soar above Venus and Mars whilst finding proof of new planets and the possibility of other life forming around distant stars.

Directors: Ben Burtt, Phyllis Ferguson, James Neihouse, Gail Singer | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Roberta L. Bondar, Eric DeJong, Ronald J. Grabe

Votes: 370

49. Star Wars City (1985 TV Movie)

41 min | Sci-Fi

A tv documentary in which Hans Leechleitner travels to observe the town of Colorado Springs dubbed "Star Wars City" due to its involvement with the Space Command.

Votes: 36

50. What Happened on the Moon? - An Investigation Into Apollo (2000 Video)

225 min | Documentary

An in-depth British breakdown of how NASA never had the technology to overcome putting a man on on the moon or anywhere further than low orbit from the Apollo moon missions even today with ... See full summary »

Director: David S. Percy | Stars: Ronnie Stronge, H.J.P. Arnold, Mary Bennett, Ian Crawford

Votes: 88