Movies: Rocket

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds....

The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure, hand in hand, off to...

"Explorer 1" is the second episode of "Beginnings Of The Space Age". The 60-minute documentary reveals how JPL and the U.S. Army could have been the first to place a satellite into Earth orbit, had they only been given the chance. That opportunity wa...

As an astronaut mourns the death of her canine companions, a pet shop employee sees to help her fill the fluffy void. Unsuccessful, they both despair until a comet an an unexpected visitor descend destructively upon the city. They hatch a plan to sav...

An elocutionist introduces several sci-fi stories that occur in the Jovian Cinematic Universe, featuring a high-tech bounty hunter loses his bounty on a forest planet, a scientist who debates the meaning of life with his robot in a crash, love and be...

Dangerous climate changes are ravaging Earth and the U.S. government requests an investigation by masked super-scientist Commando Cody. He discovers that the disasters are being caused by space-alien forces from unknown planetary origins....

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Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting documentary....

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration....

Discover how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in this half-hour KQED Science documentary. From space tourism to mining the moon to companies ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wav...

"The American Rocketeer" tells the controversial story of aviation engineer Frank Malina, whose fundamental role in the evolution of American rocketry is largely forgotten. Malina, along with a motley crew of amateur rocket enthusiasts and fellow Cal...

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philos...

Jack's life (and kitchen) is turned upside down when his fridge begins to talk to him....

A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions....

Animation by Ayano Yamazawa. Music by Keiichi Yasui....

A collection of NASA films, from Project Mercury to the Space Shuttle....

There are times when we face a limitation that seems impossible to solve; just like an astronaut on Earth trying to achieve his dreams of going to the moon. This film tells a story about a countryside kid who dreamed of becoming a filmmaker despite h...