2001 - A Space Odyssey er Stanley Kubricks imponerende, Oscar®-vindende* mesterværk, der på ypperlig vis skildrer kampen mellem mennesket og maskinerne, og som dristigt og medrivende lader musik og bevægelse gå op i en højere enhed. Kubrick (som skrev filmmanuskriptet sammen med Arthur C. Clarke) tager os først med til en præhistorisk fortid, hvor jorden er befolket af aber, for derefter at springe flere årtusinder frem i tiden (ved hjælp af et af filmhistoriens mest utrolige klip) til rumtiden for til sidst at sende astronauten Bowman (Keir Dullea) ud i rummets uendelige vidder – måske helt ud i udødeligheden. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" - og lad en utrolig rejse tage sin begyndelse.
En fremmed rumadelsslægt arbejder i smug på at forfine menneskeracen, idet de ønsker at udvinde et ungdomsserum af de højest udviklede eksemplarer. Da den mægtigste rummatriark dør, opdager hendes børn, at et menneske - den uheldige rengøringshjælp Jupiter - er arving til tronen. Denne skæbne aner Jupiter dog intet om, før cyborgkrigeren Caine Wise opsøger hende på Jorden for at beskytte hende. © Scope
På Jupiters tredje måne ligger en frontier-by i form af en minestation - et lille klaustrofobisk samfund. Den nyankommende sherif O´Niel begynder at undersøge, hvorfor der er så høj en selvmordsrate - en undersøgelse, som bringer en række rystende forhold for dagen. I et desperat udbrud af stædighed tager han kampen op mod den overmagt, der styrer liv og død på den fjerne, isolerede minestation…
Et internationalt hold af astronauter sendes til Jupiters fjerde måde, Europa, for at finde tegn på liv, men ingen er parate til hvad de finder.
Historien foregår i fremtiden, hvor Solen udvider sig til en gigantisk rød sag og truer med at udslette alt liv på Jorden. Det får historiens helte til at bygge ti tusinde stjernemotorer, der skal sætte fut på Jorden og flytte den væk fra solen, inden jorden bliver overophedet. I løbet af 2500 år bliver jorden til et rumskib, der forlader sit eget solsystem for at finde en ny stjerne som sol. Jorden kommer ind i Alpha Centauri-systemet, men undervejs dør millioner af mennesker på grund af oversvømmelser, jordskælv og temperaturforandringer. Menneskeheden bliver nødt til at søge under jorden for at kunne overleve rejsen.
En russisk-amerikansk ekspedition sendes til Jupiter for at finde ud af hvad der skete med USS Discovery og dens besætning. Hvorfor gik HAL amok og dræbte nogle af besætningsmedlemmerne? Hvad er det for en sort monolit, der har vist sig i nærheden af Jupiter? En masse spørgsmål trænger sig på. Alt imens truer globale spændinger på jorden med at skabe splid blandt ekspeditionens medlemmer.
A looming collision with Jupiter threatens Earth as humans search for a new star. The planet's fate now lies in the hands of a few unexpected heroes.
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.
Jupiter’s famous blemish, the Great Red Spot, has vanished. When massive storms are reported in North America, it quickly becomes apparent that the huge, high storm that has been swirling around Jupiter for hundreds of years has landed on Earth. Swallowing up everything in its path, the Great Red Spot threatens to transform Earth into another Jupiter-like gas giant in just a matter of days! aka Mega Cyclone
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.
George Kennedy narrates this documentary that examines the theory that the world is doomed due to the influence the planet Jupiter has on the Earth.
Three astronauts crash land on an Earth-like planet after returning from a 7-year long expedition to Ganymede. The planet however is populated by murderous psychopaths who kill two of the astronauts right away. The third, Roger Corman, flees to the alien countryside where he decides to begin a violent quest to find out the truth behind his mission.
At 4.6 billion years old, the Solar System is our solid, secure home in the Universe. But how did it come to be? In this episode we trace the system's birth from a thin cloud of dust and gas. Shocked by a nearby supernova, the pull of gravity and natural rotation spun it into a flat disc from which the Sun and planets coalesced. It all happened in the space of 700 million years, during which the planets jockeyed for position, dodging the brutal bombardment of deadly asteroids and setting into the neat, stable system that we now realize might be a rarity in the universe.
A spacecraft lands on Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, in temperatures of minus 260 degrees and searing radiation. Its mission: to penetrate the surface and send a probe into a watery realm beneath the ice. Meet Bill Stone, a preeminent underwater cave explorer and inventor who is developing robots to carry out that mission one day. Now, he and his team hope to test an autonomous underwater vehicle called Endurance in Antarctica’s icy waters. As we watch Endurance plunge into the depths, CGI animation helps us envision how its descendant would fare on a real mission to Europa. We see it hurtle across the solar system, finally dropping slowly into Europa’s liquid realm, where we follow it through its routines. Getting a robot through the ice and into the oceans of Europa will be an order of magnitude more difficult than anything Stone’s team has done so far.
Marc Minkowski conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera National de Lyon in this 1997 production of Offenbach's opera starring Natalie Dessay, Yann Beuron, Jean-Paul Fouchecourt and Laurent Naouri.