Armenian radio-engineer Arevik Sargsyan has struggled throughout her life to preserve ROT54, a giant telescope built by her uncle in the 1980s. But the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that ROT54 was left abandoned for 30 years. Now, Arevik is attempting to take control of the telescope and prove it still works.
0 2002 HD
This documentary examines theories behind the creation of gamma ray bursts, destructive explosions in space that can wipe out entire star systems.
5.5 2004 HD
A group of renowned cosmologists and astrophysicist are in search of a realistic picture of the universe. Their research and observational...
0 1942 HD
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geographically unbroken political unit in the world,...
7.5 2004 HD
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An...
9.3 2023 HD
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...
7 2013 HD
Kate Humble and Helen Czerski reveal the inner workings of the sun and investigate why scientists think changes in the sun's behaviour may have...
0 2012 HD
Blue Peter presenters Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood want to learn more about the solar system so they challenge scientists Helen Czerski and Jem...
7.8 2019 HD
8.6 2019 HD
How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of...
0 2022 HD
0 1977 HD
Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people along its 2300-mile length, including looks at the...
0 2020 HD
A community of Armenians, refugees from the Soviet Union during the Baku pogroms, live in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet...
0 1994 HD
Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art historians, and museum directors to examine the...
0 2024 HD
1979. Flicking through pictures from a Soviet magazine, 15-year-old Martim dreams of building a new society. His radical communist parents send him...
7.5 2017 HD
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony...
7.8 2019 HD
Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21st century cosmologists today navigate more...
0 1961 HD
Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.
6.833 2016 HD
Prof. Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe. Through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised...
5.3 2010 HD
A short documentary about an engineer in a Chilean observatory.
5.8 2010 HD
A short documentary interviewing a renown astronomer and astrophysicist.
