A Glean movie guide
Beyond Earth
Explore the unknown
Immersive sci-fi journeys into deep space, distant worlds, and cosmic isolation.
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The movie list
- 01
Interstellar
A team of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet for humanity.
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
- 02
The Martian
An astronaut stranded on Mars must use his ingenuity and science to survive.
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.
- 03
2001: A Space Odyssey
A crew of scientists embarks on a Jupiter-bound mission following a mysterious discovery.
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
- 04
Contact
A scientist builds an interstellar transport machine after detecting an extraterrestrial signal.
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
- 05
Ad Astra
An astronaut journeys to the solar system's outer edges to find his missing father.
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.
- 06
Moon
A solo lunar miner encounters a personal crisis as his three-year shift nears its end.
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
- 07
Gravity
Two astronauts fight to survive in Earth orbit after space debris destroys their shuttle.
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
- 08
Passengers
Two passengers wake up decades early on an interstellar colony ship bound for a distant planet.
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
- 09
Star Trek
The USS Enterprise crew launches into galactic voyages to explore strange new worlds.
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
- 10
Europa Report
A private astronaut crew documents a high-stakes mission to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa.
A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.