The Best Space Exploration Documentaries
100 hand-picked Space Exploration documentaries, free to watch in HD and 4K on Dr Documentary.
Thorium: The NASA Story2017•6h 27m•HD•★8.7
Space Station Tour2012•25m•HD•★8.6
VOYAGER 1: The Story of the Next 10 Trillion Years2026•23m•4K•★8.4
16 Sunrises - An Astronaut's First Mission to Space2023•1h 58m•HD•★8.3
How NASA Built the Saturn V Rocket for the Apollo Missions2023•52m•HD•★8.2
Apollo 8: The First Voyage to the Moon2023•1h 59m•4K•★8.1
Was There Life On Mars And Other Mysteries Of The Solar System2020•1h 25m•4K•★8.1
Mars: What They Never Taught You in School2024•19m•4K•★8.1
The Space Race: The Untold Story of Black Astronauts2023•1h 30m•HD•★8.1
The Eagle Has Landed, The Flight of Apollo 11, 19691969•29m•HD•★8.1
SpaceX Starship: Test Like You Fly2026•25m•HD•★8.1
The International Space Station2024•28m•HD•★8.1
Apollo 15: In the Mountains of the Moon2023•28m•4K•★8
Mars: The Planet Explained2024•3m•4K•★8
What NASA Found Within the Core of the Sun2024•33m•4K•★8
3+ Hours of Facts About the Apollo Moon Missions2025•3h 19m•HD•★8.0
The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Made Reusable Spacecraft2025•51m•HD•★8.0
Saturn V: The Most Important Project of the Space Race2025•53m•HD•★8.0
Saving Apollo 13: The Untold Story of NASA’s Greatest Rescue2025•47m•HD•★8.0
Apollo 13: The Explosion That Changed Everything2025•51m•HD•★8.0
Battle for the Moon: Gemini and Apollo2025•52m•HD•★8.0
Nazis, Nukes & NASA: The Explosive Origins of Space Flight2025•52m•HD•★8.0
Investigating the Truth Behind the 1969 Moon Landing2025•51m•HD•★8.0
The NASA Telescope That Revolutionized Astronomy2025•45m•HD•★8.0
From Wind Tunnels to the Moon: The Engineering Marvels of NASA2023•1h 18m•HD•★8
How America Won the Space Race to the Moon2022•40m•HD•★8
Life in Space: How Astronauts Live on the ISS2026•1h 30m•HD•★8
SpaceX Makes History: The Mars Dream2021•4m•HD•★8
How NASA Changed Our View of the Universe2022•52m•HD•★8
How the Moon Landing Was Faked Explained2025•52m•HD•★8.0
NASA's Billion Dollar Mission to Visit Every Planet in Our Solar System2025•3h 27m•HD•★8.0
The Mercury Program: America's First Astronauts2022•51m•HD•★8
Why Did Nasa Secretly Send 6 Men to the Bottom of the Ocean in 1969?2026•47m•HD•★8.0
Astronauts Explain What It's Like to See the Earth From Space2023•47m•HD•★8.0
Mars Calling2021•50m•HD•★8.0
How One Man Won the Space Race for America2021•52m•HD•★8.0
The Astronauts Who Oribted the Moon on Christmas2020•50m•HD•★8.0
How America Won the Space Race2022•1h 24m•HD•★8.0
The Advanced Technology That Will Take Us to Mars2023•47m•HD•★8.0
How Are We Going to Survive on Mars?2023•47m•HD•★8.0
A Look Into the Rigorous Trainings of an Astronaut2023•48m•HD•★8.0
The Story of Nasa's Last Mission to the Moon2018•52m•HD•★8.0
Humans Colonizing the Moon & Mars: Space Exploration in the 21st Century2023•47m•HD•★8.0
The Truth About the Moon Landings2025•2h 20m•HD•★8.0
Apollo 17: The Last Men on the Moon2018•56m•HD•★8.0
Inside Nasa: The Saturn V Rocket Story2019•52m•HD•★8.0
How the USA Won the Space Race2019•55m•HD•★8.0
How Astronauts Trained for the First Moon Landing2019•52m•HD•★8.0
NASA's Most Groundbreaking Accomplishments2024•1h 44m•HD•★8.0
Billion Dollar Space Race2024•1h 4m•HD•★8.0
The Unbelievable True Story of the Apollo 13 Rescue2024•1h 43m•HD•★8.0
The Nasa Students Tasked With Changing the World2025•48m•HD•★8.0
Apollo 17: Interviews With the Last Men on the Moon2025•52m•HD•★8.0
The End of Apollo: The Last Time People Walked on the Moon2025•52m•HD•★8.0
Lunar Colonists: The Unheard Stories From the Men of Apollo2025•49m•HD•★8.0
The Miraculous Survival of the Apollo 13 Astronauts2024•44m•HD•★8.0
How Nasa Learned Mars' Biggest Secret2023•47m•HD•★8.0
Why Won't Nasa's Parker Solar Space Probe Melt Around the Sun2023•47m•HD•★8.0
What Exploring Mars Has Taught US2023•1h 57m•HD•★8.0
Apollo 11: The Complete Story of Man’s First Mission to the Moon2024•41m•HD•★8.0
Could Mars Be Our "Planet B?"2024•46m•HD•★8.0
NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)2015•30m•4K•★7.9![Apollo 17 Remastered (50th Anniversary) [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0lZ8iDAmX9o/hqdefault.jpg)
Apollo 17 Remastered (50th Anniversary) [4K]2022•2h 46m•4K•★7.9
Apollo 11 | Moonwalk One in 4k2019•1h 40m•4K•★7.9
Moon Landing Declassified (Full Episode) | Undercover History Updates | National Geographic2025•44m•4K•★7.9![Everything NASA Discovered from James Webb's First Year in Space [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nbDQEo0uA0Q/hqdefault.jpg)
Everything NASA Discovered from James Webb's First Year in Space [4K]2023•45m•4K•★7.9
Ultimate Mars Challenge (2012) | Full Documentary | NOVA2012•53m•HD•★7.9
The Journeys of Apollo2014•58m•HD•★7.9
Looking for Life on Mars | Full Documentary I NOVA | PBS2021•54m•HD•★7.9
Apollo 17 - The Last Men on the Moon | Part 1 | Free Documentary History2021•52m•HD•★7.9
Apollo Program: The Complete Story2021•54m•HD•★7.9
What Voyager Detected at the Edge of the Solar System2024•51m•HD•★7.9
The Moon Landing: World's Greatest Hoax?2023•52m•HD•★7.9
Apollo’s Daring Mission (2019) | Full Documentary | NOVA2019•53m•HD•★7.9
Apollo 11: How Did NASA Land A Man On The Moon? | To The Moon | Progress2023•1h 24m•HD•★7.9
Mars in 4K You’ve Never Seen It Like This2025•22m•4K•★7.8
Operation Space Station: Science and Survival | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS2025•54m•4K•★7.8![The Space Race: Journey to the Terrestrial Planets [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fe6vJU0IV2E/hqdefault.jpg)
The Space Race: Journey to the Terrestrial Planets [4K]2023•40m•4K•★7.8
NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Sent Most Incredible Footage Of Mars! Curiosity' Rover Mars in 4K2025•33m•4K•★7.8![Space Shuttle 1984: NASA's MMU Jetpack [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QxmY3tD_JO0/hqdefault.jpg)
Space Shuttle 1984: NASA's MMU Jetpack [4K]2025•2h 56m•4K•★7.8
Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS2025•54m•4K•★7.8![NASA's Voyager Mission: Remastered [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M62kajY-ln0/hqdefault.jpg)
NASA's Voyager Mission: Remastered [4K]2022•2h 45m•4K•★7.8
Space Race (Full Episode) | Explorer2021•44m•4K•★7.8
Uncovering the Secrets of the International Space Station (Full Episode) | Superstructures2024•44m•4K•★7.8![Apollo 16 Remastered (50th Anniversary) [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yqdU6EQzclc/hqdefault.jpg)
Apollo 16 Remastered (50th Anniversary) [4K]2021•2h 36m•4K•★7.8
Mars: Life on the Red Planet | BBC Earth Science2024•37m•4K•★7.8![NASA's Mariner Missions [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qjx3u9_FZHo/hqdefault.jpg)
NASA's Mariner Missions [4K]2025•3h 59m•4K•★7.8
How Hard Is It to Go Back? - Inside NASA's Race to the Moon | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS2026•54m•4K•★7.8
Race to the Red Planet: The New Space Race | Free Documentary Space2026•46m•HD•★7.8
Sandro Botticelli: Venus and Mars in Renaissance Florence2017•28m•HD•★7.8
Mars - Life on the Red Planet? | DW Documentary2024•42m•HD•★7.8
Why NASA Is Sending This Truck To The Moon2025•23m•HD•★7.8
Artemis vs Apollo: Is Artemis an Improvement?!2020•1h 2m•HD•★7.8
How NASA Discovered a Military Base under Greenland2026•22m•HD•★7.8
All About The New Telescope NASA Just Launched, with Jason Rhodes2026•50m•HD•★7.8
I got to test a new spacesuit in the Arctic for NASA's Artemis missions | My New Moon Suit2024•20m•HD•★7.8
First Look Inside SpaceX's Starfactory w/ Elon Musk2024•1h 4m•HD•★7.8
Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne2023•30m•HD•★7.8
Inside Starlab, a MASSIVE commercial Space Station!2026•37m•HD•★7.8
I Tested NASA's New Space Suit (Ft. Axiom Space)2024•25m•HD•★7.8About this collection
This collection is about the human effort to leave Earth rather than the cosmos itself: Apollo and the Moon landings, the Mars rovers and the robotic missions, the space race and the engineering behind it. 100 documentaries on how we got off the ground and where we are trying to go next.