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The following films also include spacecraft that have also been called space stations by outside sources: Silent Running (1972), which features the space freighter Valley Forge [75] The Fifth Element (1997), which features the space liner Fhloston Paradise [76] WALL-E (2008), which features the generation ship Axiom [77]
The Challenge [1] [3] [4] Russia: Widely reported by media sources as the first feature-length movie filmed in space. Unlike Return from Orbit, the film's director and lead actress actually filmed in space, for a period of twelve days. Scenes were shot aboard the International Space Station. TBA untitled film starring Tom Cruise [5] United States
Films set in outer space, the expanse that exists beyond Earth and between celestial bodies. Subcategories This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.
Science writer, science fiction novelist, and early space enthusiast Arthur C. Clarke wrote: "[T]his [is a] remarkable exciting and often very beautiful film, the first Technicolor expedition into space. After years of comic strip treatment of interplanetary travel, Hollywood has at last made a serious and scientifically accurate film on the ...
Paramount Pictures, Inc. holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 1989, the United States continues to be engaged in a Space Race with the Soviet Union.. The two male astronauts manning the U.S. weather station on the Moon, Hoffman and Schmidlap, are suffering the effects of their long stay in space and need to be relieved, as Schmidlap regularly ties up Hoffman and has even knocked out his two front teeth.
In the two movies, Bowman is played by Keir Dullea. Dr. Heywood R. Floyd first appears in 2001: A Space Odyssey as being in charge of the mission to investigate the alien Monolith found on the Moon. After the events that took place in 2001: A Space Odyssey, he is the protagonist of 2010: Odyssey Two and 2061: Odyssey Three. Floyd was born in ...
From the Earth to the Moon is a 1958 American Technicolor science fiction film, produced by Benedict Bogeaus, directed by Byron Haskin, that stars Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, and Debra Paget. Production of the film originated at RKO Pictures , but when RKO went into bankruptcy, the film was acquired and released by Warner Brothers .