Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "planetary-collision"

1. Flash Gordon (1936)

Passed | 245 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.

Directors: Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson

Votes: 2,658

2. The Planets (2019)

59 min | Documentary

Welcome to the greatest story that's never been told. In a new, ground breaking series we'll be telling the story of the planets as never before.

Stars: Brian Cox, Fran Bagenal, John Grotzinger, Julie Webster

Votes: 3,840

3. The Man from Planet X (1951)

Approved | 71 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert

Votes: 3,091

4. The Golden Bat (1966)

73 min | Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

When the Earth is threatened by an evil alien, a group of UN scientists travel to the lost city of Atlantis where they unearth a superhuman mummy named The Golden Bat who is prophesied to help the humans survive this terrible attack.

Director: Hajime Satô | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Osamu Kobayashi, Wataru Yamagawa, Hisako Tsukuba

Votes: 316

5. Earth: Making of a Planet (2011 TV Movie)

96 min | Documentary

Animated film showing the making of Planet Earth from rocks and dust to our current home, beginning 4.5 billion years ago. Explains the clash with planet Thea, creation of oxygen, initial life underwater and stromatolites. Initial plate tectonics, Snowball earth and the first continents of Rhodinia and Gondwana.

Director: Yavar Abbas | Stars: Reg E. Cathey, Paul Essiembre

Votes: 634

6. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Ship in a Bottle (1993)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Lt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.

Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,647

7. Catastrophe (2008– )
Episode: Birth of the Planet (2008)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

30 million years after Earth's birth a cataclysmic collision almost destroyed the planet completely. Instead this chance collision formed the moon, triggering an extraordinary sequence of ... See full summary »

Director: Sophie Elwin-Harris | Stars: Tony Robinson, Robin Canup, Neil F. Comins, William Hartmann

Votes: 17

8. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: Moons (2010)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

Moons come in every possible shape and size. Home to incredible natural phenomena like gigantic geysers and colossal volcanoes, moons also offer perhaps the best chance of finding alien ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun Trevisick | Stars: Mike Rowe, Chris McKay, David Grinspoon, Dan Durda

Votes: 155

9. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: Planets (2010)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

There are just eight planets in our solar system, but there could be a hundred billion planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone. This show follows the journey of planets as they grow from ... See full summary »

Director: Lorne Townend | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Geoff Marcy, Steve Squyres

Votes: 148

10. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: Worst Days on Planet Earth (2011)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, History

Earth may seem like the most hospitable planet in the solar system. But look again. Startling new discoveries reveal the blue planet has been plagued by more chaos and destruction than ... See full summary »

Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Erik Thompson, Michael Mischna, Laura Danly, Dan Durda

Votes: 60

11. The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode: How the Solar System was Made (2011)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Darryl Rehr | Stars: Erik Thompson, Alex Filippenko, Michael Mischna, Edward Young

Votes: 70

12. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: Birth of the Earth (2012)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

The Earth was formed by a series of cosmic cataclysms including the most powerful blast in the Universe. Yet amid the turmoil our world was born. Could the same chain of events have created... See full summary »

Director: George Harris | Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Russell Schweickart

Votes: 97

13. SciShow (2012– )
Episode: The Zombie Planet at the Center of the Earth (2024)

6 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

A 2023 study suggests that large 'blobs' in the Earth's mantle could be material from the mantle of hypothetical planet Theia that collided with the Earth four and a half billion years ago.

Star: Hank Green

14. How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode: The First Oceans (2015)

TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary

For years, scientists suspected that the oceans came from molecules delivered to Earth from distant stars by asteroids, but a new discovery suggests that their true origins may be more exotic.

Director: Mark Bridge | Stars: Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe, Moogega Cooper, Phil Plait

Votes: 80