Here are our picks for the 30 best movies about that big, overwhelming, sometimes frightening, sometimes beautiful void above our heads. Both book and series follow the same general structure - and both are concerned with illuminating the nature of the cosmos.
The book was first published in 1983, as a tie-in to the TV documentary series Carl Sagan's Cosmos DVD 1980. What is mankind’s place in the universe? What lies outside our tiny little rock – and do we really want to know what’s out there? For that reason, the ‘space movie’ exists as its own genre beneath the wider umbrella of science fiction. This book is a delight to read, and it succeeds in making science lively and engaging. The concept of space is vast enough to allow for the exploration of all sorts of big ideas. Mankind hadn’t even figured out how to get off the ground yet when Georges Méliès imagined voyaging to the moon, and in the century-plus since, many other directors have taken audiences on trips far deeper into the cosmos. From the time the movies were invented, filmmakers have been dreaming of outer space.
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