The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station

Astronauts on the International Space Station need to relax, just like the rest of us. So it’s no surprise that there are movies and TV shows on board for them to watch. I’ve obtained the complete list through a Freedom of Information request, which is published below.

Screenshot from the film Gravity

The movies are a great mix of old and new films. And when I read through the list, I couldn’t help but add “in space” to every title. Die Hard… in space! House of Cards… in space! 2001: A Space Odyssey… in space! Well, you get the picture.

Astronauts used to be forced to watch movies on their small-screened devices exclusively. When NASA astronaut Michael Barratt wanted to watch the new Star Trek movie in 2009 he had to set up a makeshift theatre using his laptop. But no longer.

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
The film Star Trek (2009) playing on a laptop on the International Space Station (Photo by NASA astronaut Michael Barratt)

The film Star Trek (2009) playing on a laptop on the International Space Station (Photo by NASA astronaut Michael Barratt)

Back in April of 2015 astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo of their HD TV set-up with none other than the movie Gravity playing. Not a bad little theatre, even if Gravity seems like the last movie you’d want to watch in space…

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
The film Gravity playing on the International Space Station (Photo by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly)

The film Gravity playing on the International Space Station (Photo by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly)

Below we have the complete list of movies and TV shows currently available for astronauts to watch on the ISS — everything from Alien to Zoolander. And plenty of Star Trek (new and old) in between.

As I mentioned, there’s a surprising number of classic films, like Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon and all three Godfather films.

There are also plenty of space-themed and dystopian sci-fi movies, like Moon, Blade Runner, Terminator 2, Armageddon, The Matrix and both versions of Total Recall.

1941

12 Monkeys

12 Years a Slave

2 Fast 2 Furious

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

2001: A Space Odyssey

21 Jump Street

24 (Seasons 1-8)

48 Hours

8 Mile

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Story

A Knights Tale

A Man and a Woman

A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Roxbury

A Perfect Murder

A Prairie Home Companion

A Room with a View

Absolutely Fabulous (Series 1-3)

Air Force One

Aeroplane

Alias Season 1

Alien

Alien 3

Alien Resurrection

Aliens

All Good Things

Along Came Polly

Always

American Gangster

American Sniper

American Wedding

An American in Paris

An Article of Hope

Analyse This

Anchorman

Anchorman 2

Animal House (1978)

Argo

Armageddon

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Arrow (Season 1)

Arsenic and Old Lace

As Good as it Gets

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me

Australia

Avatar

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from the film Birdman

Still from the film Birdman

Baby Mama

Back to Bataan

Back to the Future

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part III

Backdraft

Band of Brothers Season 1

Bataan

Batman Forever

Batman Returns

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

Battle of Britain

Battleship

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Ben-Hur

Better Call Saul (Season 1)

Beverly Hills Cop II

Beverly Hills Cop III

Big Bang Theory (Seasons 1-8)

Big Eyes

Big Jake

Billy Jack

Birdman, or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

Black Hawk Down

Black Mask

Black Swan

Blade Runner

Blazing Saddles Blended

Blue Planet Frozen Seas

Blue Planet Ocean World

Blues Brothers

Bob Newhart Button-Down Concert

Body of Lies

Braveheart

Breaking Bad (Seasons 1-6)

Bridesmaids

Bull Durham

Caddyshack

Cahill United States Marshal

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain Phillips

Casablanca

Cast Away

Catch-22

Celtic Woman Songs from the Heart

Chance Are

Chariots of Fire

Charlie St Cloud

Children of Men

Chisum

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Christmas Vacation

Christmas with the Kranks

Citizen Kane

City of Angels

City Slickers

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Comic Relief

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Contact

Corrina, Corrina

Cosmos (Season 1)

Courage Under Fire

Courageous

Cowboys & Aliens

Crazy Stupid Love

Creation

Crimson Tide

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from the film Dr. Strangelove

Still from the film Dr Strangelove

Dances with Wolves

Dark Star

Dark Tide

Date Night

Destination Tokyo

Dial M for Murder

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Dirty Dozen

Divergent

Django Unchained

Dodgeball

Don’t Say a Word

Dr No

Dr Strangelove

Draft Day

Duck Soup

Dumb And Dumber To

Eagle Eye

East/West

Eastern Promises

Edge of Tomorrow

El Dorado

Elf

Elizabeth

The Golden Age

End of Days

Ender’s Game

Enemy at the Gates

Entrapment

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Faithful John

Falling Down

Falling Skies (Seasons 1-4)

Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Fargo

Father of the Bride (1950)

Field of Dreams

Firefly (Season 1)

Fletch

Forbidden Planet

Forget Paris

Forrest Gump

Four Christmases

Fred Claus

Frequency

Friends With Benefits

From Russia with Love

Fugitive Pieces

Full Metal Jacket

Fury

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from Guardians of the Galaxy

Still from Guardians of the Galaxy

GI Jane

Galaxy Quest

Get Him to the Greek

Gettysburg

Ghostbusters

Gladiator

Godzilla (2014)

Going My Way

Gone in 60 Seconds

Good Luck Chuck

GoodFellas

Gravity

Greenfingers

Groundhog Day

Guardians of the Galaxy

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from the motion picture Her

Still from the motion picture Her

Hall Pass

Hancock

Happy Feet

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Heart and Souls

Heaven Can Wait

Hellfighters

Her

Homeland (Seasons 1-3)

Hondo

Hoosiers

Hot Fuzz

House of Cards (Seasons 1-3)

How Do You Know

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from Inglorious Basterds

Still from Inglorious Basterds

I Am Legend

I Confess (1953)

In Bruges

In Her Shoes

Inglourious Basterds

Inside Man

Ironman

Irony of Fate

It’s a Mad Mad Mad World

It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Jack Ryan-Shadow Recruit

James Taylor Squibnocket

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Kelly’s Heroes

Kill Bill Volume I

Kill Bill Volume II

Killing Lincoln

Kingdom of Heaven

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kiss of the Dragon

LA Confidential

Ladder 49

Laura Croft: Tomb Raider

Legionnaire

Les Miserables

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 3

Lethal Weapon 4

Leviathan

Life Season 1

Like Mike

Limitless

Lincoln

Lincoln Lawyer

Lion of the Desert

Little Fockers

Little Red Riding Hood

Live Free or Die Hard

Lone Survivor

Looper

Love Actually

Love and Basketball

Love in the Afternoon

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Promo photo from Modern Family

Promo photo from Modern Family

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Magnolia

Mamma Mia!

March of the Penguins

Mars Attacks

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD (Season 1)

McLintock!

Meet Me in St Louis

Meet the Spartans

Memento

Memphis Belle

Men in Black

Million Dollar Arm

Miracle

Miracle at St Anna

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission: Impossible III

Mogambo

Modern Family (Seasons 1-5)

Moneyball

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Moon

Moonraker

Moonrise Kingdom

Moulin Rouge (2001)

Mr Smith Goes to Washington

Mrs Miniver

My Best Friends Girl

Mysterious Island

Mystery Men

Mythbusters (Seasons 1-7)

Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)

Newsroom (Season 1)

Ninja Assassin

No Way Out

North by Northwest

North Face

North to Alaska

Nothing to Lose

Notorious (1946)

Now, Voyager

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Oblivion

Oceans

Oceans Thirteen

Old School

Olympus Has Fallen

Parental Guidance

Paul

Payback

Penelope

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Platoon

Pleasantville

Premium Rush

Pride and Glory

Pulp Fiction

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from the film Roman Holiday

Still from the film Roman Holiday

Raising Arizona

Rat Race

Real Steel

Rear Window

Return to Me

Righteous Kill

Rio Bravo

Rio Lobo

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Robocop

Rocketman

Roman Holiday

Ronin

Rookie of the Year

Rudy

Rules of Engagement

Runner Runner

Rush Hour

Satellite in the Sky

Saving Private Ryan

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Scrooged

Se7en

Seinfeld (Seasons 1-3)

Sense and Sensibility

Serenity

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Seven Samurai

Shaft (1971)

Shallow Hal

Shaun of the Dead

Sherlock (Seasons 1-3)

Silver Linings Playbook

Silverado

Skyfall

Sleepless in Seattle

Slumdog Millionaire

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Son of God

Spartacus

Speed

Spider-Man

Spirited Away

Splendor in the Grass

Stalingrad (2013)

Star Trek (2009)

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: Generations

Star Trek I: The Motion Picture

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace

Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones

Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi

Stardust

Starship Troopers

Starsky & Hutch

Step Brothers

Superman

Superman II

Superman Returns

Supernatural (Seasons 1-9)

Swing Vote

Swingers

Talladega Nights

Tank Girl

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

That Thing You Do

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Still from The Lego Movie

Still from The Lego Movie

The Americans (Seasons 1-3)

The Avengers (2012)

The Aviator

The Bad News Bears

The Beast From 20,000 Fathams

The Best Bits of Mr Bean

The Best of Comedy Central Presents

The Best of Comedy Central Presents II

The Big Lebowski

The Big Sleep

The Blacklist (Seasons 1-2)

The Bone Collector

The Bourne Identity (2002)

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Break-up

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bucket List

The Cowboys

The Dark Knight

The Dirty Dozen

The Eagle Has Landed

The Express

The Ernie Davis Story

The Fifth Element

The Fighter

The Five Pennies

The Fugitive

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part III

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

The Goosemaiden (Die Gansemag)

The Gospel of John

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Great Escape

The Green Berets

The Green Mile

The Guns of Navarone

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Hurricane

The Ides of March

The Illusionist

The Impossible

The Interview

The Invention of Lying

The Jackal

The Last Castle

The Last Days of World War II (Season 1)

The Last Man on the Moon

The Last Samurai

The Last Station

The LEGO Movie

The Lives of Others

The Living Sea

The Long Grey Line

The Long, Long Trailer

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Magic of Flight

The Maltese Falcon

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Matrix

The Matrix Reloaded

The Middle (Seasons 1, 2, 5, 6)

The Mummy

The Music Man

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nutty Professor

The Office (Seasons 1-3, 5)

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Pacific (Season 1)

The Party

The Peacemaker

The Pelican Brief

The Polar Express

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Princess Bride

The Raven

The Replacements

The Right Stuff

The Rock

The Royal Tenebaums

The Runaways

The Russians Are Coming

The Scout

The Secret of Keils

The Shawshank Redemption

The Sixth Sense

The Social Network

The Sons of Katie Elder

The Sopranos (Seasons 1-6)

The Sound of Music

The Terminator

The Thing (2011)

The Three Amigos

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Time Machine

The Train Robbers

The Transporter

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Usual Suspects

The Wedding Singer

The West Wing (Seasons 1-3)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

The Wolf of Wall Street

The World is Not Enough

The Wrestler

The Wrong Man

The Year of Living Dangerously

The Complete List Of Movies And TV Shows On Board The International Space Station
Promo photo from Top Gun

Promo photo from Top Gun

Them

Thirteen Days

This Is 40

This is Spinal Tap

Thor

Thunderball

To Kill A Mockingbird

Tom Thumb

Tombstone

Top Gun

Total Recall (1990)

Total Recall (2012)

Trading Places

Training Day

Treasure Planet

Tropic Thunder

Two and a Half Men (Seasons 6-8)

U2 Elevation Live From Boston

Unbroken

W

Waiting for Superman

Wayne’s World

West Side Story

When The Game Stands Tall

When We Left the Earth (Season 1)

White Christmas

Whiteout

Whose Line is it Anyway

Wild

Woman in Gold

World Without End

Young Frankenstein

Zero Dark Thirty

Zoolander


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