Looking for a movie night that’s both fun and educational for the whole family? These real-life space movies take kids and teens on incredible journeys filled with daring missions, amazing discoveries, and inspiring true stories. From astronauts exploring the unknown to groundbreaking moments in space history, these picks will spark curiosity and give families plenty to talk about long after the credits roll.
Top 10 Real-Life Space Movies For Curious Kids And Teens
HIDDEN FIGURES
HIDDEN FIGURES is an engaging, uplifting salute to three African-American women who contribute to the NASA program during the 1960s Space Race with Russia. The story centers on Katherine Johnson. A brilliant mathematician, Katherine proves herself a critical addition to the Space…
Read the Full Review →
A MILLION MILES AWAY
A MILLION MILES AWAY on Amazon Prime is about the first migrant farmworker ever to go on a space mission for NASA. Starring an outstanding Michael Peña as Jose Hernandez, the movie shows Jose’s hardscrabble childhood as a traveling farmworker, until a…
Read the Full Review →
APOLLO 11
APOLLO 11 is a documentary that tells the classic story of NASA’s first moon landing in a new, unique way. It begins on launch day with a clock ticking off the hours and cuts between Mission Control, the astronauts prepping, the crowd…
Read the Full Review →
GOOD NIGHT OPPY
GOOD NIGHT OPPY is a documentary about two computerized Mars rovers that NASA launched in 2003. If this NASA mission had merely fulfilled its goal of 90 days of data collection from the Red Planet, the mission would have been a resounding…
Read the Full Review →
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON is a documentary about the United States Apollo space program, which sent men to the moon in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Interspersed with documentary footage about the astronauts, their spacecraft and their journeys to…
Read the Full Review →
HUBBLE 3D
The new documentary movie HUBBLE 3D uses the miracle of 3D IMAX technology and real data from the Hubble Telescope to take viewers on a mind-blowing trip through the heavens. Stars and planets glide over the viewer’s shoulders, as he travels to…
Read the Full Review →
THE REAL RIGHT STUFF
THE REAL RIGHT STUFF is an awe-inspiring, faith-filled documentary on Disney Plus [Disney+] about the seven American astronauts who paved the way for space travel in the 1960s. In the late 1950s, the United States was at the height of the Cold…
Read the Full Review →
