Are there any good Space documentaries that you can recommend me?
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Carl Sagan's Cosmos is essential.
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OP, Cosmos is on Hulu. It's hosted by Carl Sagan. It's probably the best one you'll find.
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Do you have anything in particular? Our solar system? Cosmology (the whole universe)? Physics? Or just space in general? Personally I'd say reading books is the best way to learn.
There's Cosmic Voyage, which has always been a favorite of mine. It's from 97 so it's a tad outdated, but it should be good enough. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it does what it does very well. That is to truly hammer in just how fucking big this shit really is.
You can watch it online, but really I'd recommend you go to the nearest IMAX theater and catch it there instead. Provided they show it of course.
[url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8552703632847182894#[/url]
[url]http://www.imax.com/movies/m/cosmic-voyage/[/url]
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[del]That's an exceprt btw, I could have sworn I saw the full of it on google video somewhere.[/del] Ah, here we go.
Nasa when we left earth. Best documentary about Nasa.
The last one I saw was in the National Air and Space Museum in DC, it was about the Hubble Space Telescope and flew you through digital 3D-ified pictures that it had captured.
Narrated by our struttin' friend Leonardo DiCaprio.
Ghosts of Mars
like pie said, Cosmos ma[B]FACK[/B]A
to add my own two cents, I think anyone reading this thread should take forty five minutes to watch
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3REZZWeWcU]The Mars Underground[/url]
it's about the vision of Dr. Robert Zubrin, an aerospace engineer who has worked out an extremely cheap (compared to NASA's stupid bullshit standards) and timely way of getting started on Mars exploration/colonization
it's pretty sweet
fuck the moon by 2020
[QUOTE=TheForeigner;26629276]Trough the wormhole with morgan freeman.[/QUOTE]
Alien and the following documentaries pretty much sums up how it is to live in space with murderous aliens hunting you.
I don't think those were documentaries.
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;26630637]I fell asleep during it but I can assure everyone that there's almost no Morgan Freeman in it.
Or I didn't hear him talking because of Polish voice-over.[/QUOTE]
listen to english ones on discovery channel
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I remember watching about 3, hour long documentaries about Nasa's success' and failures.
Shit was awesome, too bad a cant remember what they were called.
Hyperspace, the special effects on it are phenominal.
It's Narrated by Sam Neill too.
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;26630637]I fell asleep during it but I can assure everyone that there's almost no Morgan Freeman in it.
Or I didn't hear him talking because of Polish voice-over.[/QUOTE]
uhh, it's all morgan freeman.
[url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/]In the Shadow of the Moon[/url] Looks good. Haven't seen it though.
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Thank you for all your recommendations.
[QUOTE=BmB;26645066]I don't think those were documentaries.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=TheForeigner;26629276]Trough the wormhole with morgan freeman.[/QUOTE]
I thought it was a pretty shitty documentary, it's only redeeming quality being Morgan Freeman.
Too many out of focus images in an attempt to be all mysterious and artsy, and it's another one of those "Talking Heads: The Show".
To Mars by A bomb
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The Mars Underground.
Both are pretty good documentaries. To Mars by A bomb is about Project Orion (trying to launch a space ship using small nuclear devices). The Mars Underground is Robert Zubrin talking about how we could go to Mars within 50 years and live there.
[QUOTE=cosmic duck;26684733][url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/]In the Shadow of the Moon[/url] Looks good. Haven't seen it though.
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That's a very good one.
Hubble Space Telescope.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpkrVw_E6Nw[/url]
Chapter 1 of 10 (I think), each about 10 minutes long.
James May on the Moon.
It's only an hour long, and it isn't so much about space as much as it is about the Apollo program and the astronauts.
It's really touching though, and it's got James May in it.
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is supposed to be really good
i think that steven spielberg is making a documentary about space thats coming out in 2011 or 2012, not really sure though (it might not even be a documentary)
It's a science fiction movie based in real science. The initial draft was written by Kip Thorne who is some kind of high profile astrophysicist on level with say Stephen Hawking.
He's one of the people who defined Novikov <3
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