The Sky Commodified
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An exploration of the territorial complexities of the emerging astro-industry in the Chilean Desert.
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50 min
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English
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6.0
Éclipse 73
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0.0
Alaska's Silent Summer
In 2019, 1.2 million people stepped off a cruise ship into the small, south-east Alaskan town of Ketchikan. The next year, in 2020, zero did. After decades of diligent work building a sleepy fishing, mining, and logging town into one of the most sought after cruise destinations in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed Ketchikan into an empty shell—lined with restaurants, shops, and attractions for the visitors who no longer come. Now, the town must find a way to survive without its key economy until the day arrives when cruise visitors once again pour into its docks.
2021-04-06 | en
8.0
Ode to the Sun: An Art History
A look at the Sun, the star that revolves at the center of the Solar System, and its representation in art throughout history.
2023-03-05 | de
0.0
Surfing For Change: Travel Guide to NIcaragua
A short documentary focusing on the surfer culture and tourism in Nicaragua.
| en
0.0
Europe to the Stars
To celebrate its 50th anniversary year, ESO in 2012 released the documentary Europe to the Stars — ESO's first 50 years of Exploring the Southern Sky. The movie tells the story of ESO — what scientific discoveries it has been making and how it designs, builds and operates some of the most powerful ground-based telescopes.
2012-01-01 | en
0.0
Svalbard
Svalbard is a norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean where the world's northernmost city is situated. It is a place where the underground, terrestrial and spatial universes blend into each other starting from a coal mine up to Venus.
2016-09-01 | en
0.0
FAST: The Celestial Eye
China's FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) can detect radio signals emitted tens of thousands of light-years away, and engineers have faced unprecedented challenges in constructing a giant radio receptor nestled amid mountains. From novel technological innovations to architectural challenges, we follow every step that gave birth to the biggest radio telescope ever constructed.
2021-05-26 | fr
8.4
Wild Karnataka
An unprecedented UHD film on Karnataka's rich biodiversity narrated by David Attenborough. Portraying the state with highest number of tigers and elephants using the latest technology - a masterpiece showcasing the state, its flora, fauna.
2019-03-03 | en
8.0
Great Pyramid K 2019
Today we cut the granite with diamond-cut blade as is one of the most difficult rocks to cut due to its hardness.How could the egyptians, if it was them, have achieved those shapes in the sculpture sphinx of Sénousret made of Migmatite material, which is harder than granite? What was that extraordinary tool that made this possible? This example is what disputes all the official theories of egyptology. Dozen of questions now arise. Did the egyptians really have an advance technology that was losted over time? The answer is in this movie.Lucky is to understand that in 2019, we have a chance to learn how the Great Pyramid was built, who built it, and what its hidden behind it. Let yourself go and come discover the biggest mystery of humanity, the New Great Story!
2019-12-04 | en
0.0
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 1
This series also covers the essential concepts of astronomy: gravity, the light spectrum, Earth's magnetic field, the solar system, the sun, Kepler's Law, the universal law of gravitation, the Doppler Effect, and much more!
2007-08-28 | en
6.5
The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See
In an age when misinformation, alternative facts, and conspiracy theories have become mainstream, UFOs have risen to become one of the most-talked about pop culture phenomena. With all of this noise, how can we expect anyone to know how much of this is true? What is in our skies? What do we know, and how do we know it? And most importantly: Are we being visited?
2023-08-20 | en
0.0
Mayan Archaeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe
In a feast of colours and sounds, Mayan Archaeoastronomy: Observers of the Universe makes a tour of 6 Mayan temples: San Gervasio, Chichen Itzá, Uxmal, Edzná, Palenque and Bonampak where the spectator dives into a Mayan world of knowledge about the importance of the orientations of its temples in relation to the movement of some stars like the Sun, the Moon and Venus.
2017-09-06 | en
8.2
Pluto and Beyond
Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the probe attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from Earth.
2019-08-03 | en
0.0
Super Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe
2022-07-14 | sv
0.0
ASTÉROIDE 2008 TC3 : COLLISION IMMINENTE
2009-01-01 | en
0.0
Twinkl
Martinique Island, 1974. Inspired by the writings of the Martiniquais poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), the dreamer Robert Saint-Rose, known as Zétwall (Star in Creole), aspires to be the first Frenchman to step on the lunar surface.
2008-12-10 | fr
6.8
Black Hole Hunters
A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.
2019-04-10 | en
3.0
Gringo on the Slum
Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They come to Rocinha looking for the most varied aspects, from the poorness to the violence, from the geography to the architecture, from the viewing to the atmosphere, from the curiosity to the welfarism.
2015-07-21 | pt
10.0
Cien Años del Padre Negro en Atacama
2022-02-14 | es
0.0
The Once and Future Griffith Observatory
Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
2006-05-31 | en