Best movies about NASA

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Best movies about NASA

Discover the best movies about NASA, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton, came in first as the best movie featuring and about NASA of all time, followed by Armageddon and First Man from 2018. Scroll down for the top 8 movies about NASA, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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Still from Apollo 13. Source: Club de Cinéfilos. Image cropped and resized.

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Apollo 13
1995 - Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
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The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a •••
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Armageddon
1998 - Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben AffleckAction, Science Fiction, Adventure
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An asteroid threatens to hit Earth, and NASA chief Dan Truman decides the only way to stop it is to drill into it and blow it up from inside. He turns to Harry Stamper, a renowned driller •••
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First Man
2018 - Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Patrick Fugit...
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Following the six-time Academy Award-winning smash hit La La Land, director Damien Chazelle reteams with Ryan Gosling in First Man, the fascinating story of NASA's first manned moon •••
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Hidden Figures
2016 - Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim...
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The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest •••
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Interstellar
2014 - Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck...
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With humanity's existence on Earth under threat, a group of explorers uses a newly discovered wormhole to overcome the limits of space and conquer the enormous distances of an interstellar •••
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Space Cowboys
2000 - Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald SutherlandAction, Adventure, Thriller
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In 1958, four pilots in the US Air Force's space test program see their dream crushed when NASA is founded and trained chimps are sent instead. Many years later, when a Russian •••
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The Astronaut's Wife
1999 - Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe MortonDrama, Science Fiction, Thriller
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Astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly killed him and takes a desk job so he can spend more time with his wife, Jillian. She notices that Spencer seems •••
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The Martian
2015 - Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate...
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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 •••
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Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: First Man (2018), Hidden Figures (2016), The Martian (2015).

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