Cassini's Grand Finale (2017)

2017-04-074m

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.

Related Movies

1191307-thumbnail

The Letter League (NaN)

A short documentary that tells the story of queer artist Heather Spooner and the adult pen pal program she created during the pandemic, featuring the poignant and humorous stories of connection and humanity that came from it.

446364-thumbnail

Catherine (2017)

A tragic comedy of a sweet little girl, who grows up to be a crazy old cat lady.

445491-thumbnail

You Don't Back Down (1965)

In Nigeria, a young Canadian doctor serves in a local mission hospital and learns much from the experience. Stationed abroad under the Canadian University Service Overseas Plan, Dr. Alex McMahon and his schoolteacher wife find every day a fresh challenge. An interesting study of intercultural help.

444980-thumbnail

Birdboy (2011)

A terrible industrial accident changes little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the forest lost in his fantasies.

1006495-thumbnail

Modern Training Methods (1970)

Animated short film directed by Béla Ternovszky. A delightfully wicked and gruesome satire of athletic training.

1006507-thumbnail

Suicide (1970)

Short hungary animated film by Gyula Macskássy

1192130-thumbnail

Arhipelago (1985)

Night. A man drowns in a rough sea. A lighthouse guard risks his life to save a drowned man. He gives him food, gives him his bed. When the lighthouse guard falls asleep, the rescued man steals his boat. As the next lighthouse approaches, he submerges the boat and starts shouting for help.

1006576-thumbnail

Witches (2020)

447227-thumbnail

Contract (1985)

Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.

447232-thumbnail

Odd Is an Egg (2016)

Odd is terrified of his head, until one day he falls in love with Gunn who is both fearless and happy in life. Odd's life is turned upside down and he is freed from his worries in the most unexpected way.

447255-thumbnail

Visit Prague (1983)

An early short film by the Czech animator Pavel Koutsky.

447258-thumbnail

Homunculus (1984)

A short film by the Czech animator Vaclav Mergl.

447311-thumbnail

I Want My Hat Back (2013)

Bear's hat is gone. None of the animals have seen it. He is starting to become despondent, until his memory is sparked by a deer who asks just the right question.

1192544-thumbnail

The Lucy Mission: Origins of the Solar System (2022)

For two and a half years we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System and shared with them the many challenges they had to overcome such as a countdown to launch on time the building of the huge solar arrays or a pandemic.

809631-thumbnail

Real Life (2021)

Tristan found a dead cat on the corner of his street, hit by a car and left there in the gutter to rot in the rain. The young man is shaken, and the image of the dead cat begins to haunt him.

1001746-thumbnail

The Key Issue (2011)

A mockumentary about four people and their idiosyncratic ways of saving the planet.

441956-thumbnail

Alone (2017)

This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black American family is seen through the eyes of a single mother in New Orleans, Louisiana.

441965-thumbnail

The Tickle King (2017)

Featuring new, previously unseen footage documenting the bizarre and unsettling things that happened to filmmakers David Farrier and Dylan Reeve as Tickled premiered at film festivals and theaters in 2016. Lawsuits, private investigators, disrupted screenings and surprise appearances are just part of what they encounter along the way. Amidst new threats, the duo begins to answer questions that remained once the credits rolled on Tickled, including whether the disturbing behavior they uncovered will ever come to an end.

441980-thumbnail

Un Ogre (2011)

An ogre, it is me it is you : the insatiable hunger devouring the child within us. That request, in some drawings, very simply, what we, the people of ogres, we will do.

441999-thumbnail

Birthday Night (1980)

The Night had her birthday, and gave a party to which she invited Dima, a little boy so afraid of the dark that he could never sleep when the light was out.