Living Universe

Aug 9, 2018

1h 28m

★ 9.3

It's Time to Meet the Neighbours

Overview

The next great voyage of human exploration has already begun: the search for life on planets orbiting distant stars. With extraordinary CGI, the world's most inspiring scientists, via extreme environments on Earth and around the solar system, the film takes viewers aboard the next generation of space ships, across the cosmos and beneath the clouds of the exo-planets to discover The Living Universe.

Genres

Documentary

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Essential Media and Entertainment

ZED

Screen Australia

Create NSW

Creative Europe Media

CuriosityStream

Living Universe Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Karl Kruszelnicki

Artemis (voice)

Tamara Davis

Self

Steve Squyres

Self

Natalie Batalha

Self

Gentry Lee

Self

Avi Loeb

Self

Karin Öberg

Self

Sara Seager

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

5.2

In Orbit

Sep 11, 2020

The future, the space. Sonia is about to be transferred from her station to a newer one. Although everything seems to be going well, Sonia's mind is actually elsewhere, haunted by tragic events from the not too distant past.

5.8

The Black Hole

Dec 18, 1979

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

6.4

Planet of the Vampires

Sep 15, 1965

After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.

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0.0

It's Rocket Science

Apr 23, 2021

Ky Michealson is a regular guy from Minnesota. He likes sushi, he loves fast cars... and he has built more rockets than anyone else on this planet. This short portrait documentary looks at the self-named, but fully-earned ‘Rocketman’ and how his struggle with dyslexia and dropping out of school pushed him to forge his own unique future.

6.5

Slaughterhouse-Five

Mar 15, 1972

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

4.2

Breach

Dec 17, 2020

A hardened mechanic must stay awake and maintain an interstellar ark fleeing the dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board... the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only passengers. A shapeshifting alien creature has taken residence, its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. The crew must think quickly to stop this menace before it destroys mankind.

7.7

The Martian

Sep 30, 2015

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

7.0

Searching for Skylab, America's Forgotten Triumph

Feb 8, 2019

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.

4.4

Escape Velocity

Nov 28, 1999

A psychotic spaceman takes over a deep-space observatory manned by a scientist, his wife, and their teenage daughter.

5.5

Urine's Superpowers

Nov 14, 2014

That smelly, pale yellow liquid that people flush down the toilet every day is an industrial fertilizer, a diagnostic tool, a medicine, a renewable energy resource; it is an inexhaustible substance that is produced daily in huge quantities. This is the golden story of urine.

6.0

Ariane: A Space Epic

Sep 16, 2021

The history of the Ariane rocket is a space epic that has seen Europeans unite and innovate to make a place for themselves in the space race. Faced with Soviet and then American supremacy, men and women from the four corners of Europe have achieved the impossible. Ariane has become a true monument, thanks to the passion of those who dreamed of it and to their tenacity in the face of the various obstacles that stood in their way. This undeniable European success is now at a turning point in its history. The new Ariane 6 program is currently being developed to meet the challenges of tomorrow: will it be able to meet the challenges of a more competitive environment than ever before?

0.0

La Fusée Ariane : Le Défi français

Oct 18, 2018

No overview available.

7.3

Fly Rocket Fly

Sep 27, 2018

A long time ago, years before Elon Musk reached for the stars with his Space X project, a young man had his own childhood dream about a journey into space. This documentary tells the fantastic story of German astrophysicist Lutz Kayser who developed the world's first private space company. He did this under the curious and concerned eyes of secret services around the world.

8.0

The Voyager Show - Across the Universe

Dec 17, 2014

Let us take you to one of the most thrilling journeys mankind ever made. Be close witness to the complete mission of both of the Voyager Twins and explore regions mankind never saw before. Even at date the only available material of Uranus and Neptune are the innumerable recordings taken by these probes. All scientific findings made by the Voyager Twins exercised an influence on all following probe missions and actually made them possible.

7.3

The Secret of the Third Planet

Jul 31, 1981

At the end of the 22nd century Alisa Seleznyova, her father Professor Seleznyov and pilot Zelyony go on a space expedition to find rare animals for Moscow Zoo. On the way they seem to encounter a mysterious conspiracy led by Doctor Verhovtsev against legendary Two Captains Kim and Buran. The only clue is a talking bird Сhatterer [Govorun] that our heroes accidentally took possession of.

4.0

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Aug 1, 1965

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.

5.9

Nova

Sep 20, 2022

On a mission to set up a robot colony on Mars, Android Officer Nova is caught between her human crew-mates and her own kind when a mutiny erupts during the flight.

3.1

Alien Expedition

Sep 25, 2018

After a deep space exploration vessel discovers a potentially habitable planet, a scouting team composed of human and biorobotic individuals is dispatched to investigate the planet's resources. Once on the ground, their reconnaissance mission soon turns into a battle for survival against the planet's hostile alien lifeforms.