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1. The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
G | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn join Mark Twain on his airship to meet Halley's Comet.
Director: Will Vinton | Stars: James Whitmore, Michele Mariana, Gary Krug, Chris Ritchie
Votes: 3,402 | Gross: $0.85M
2. Choke Canyon (1986)
PG | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A "cowboy"-scientist is fighting a corporation who wants to dump atomic waste on a piece of land he has leased.
Director: Charles Bail | Stars: Stephen Collins, Janet Julian, Bo Svenson, Lance Henriksen
Votes: 313
3. Rabbit Transit (1947)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,155
4. Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! (1967 TV Special)
78 min | Documentary, Comedy
Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, 'Hal Holbrook' portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bogart | Star: Hal Holbrook
Votes: 213
5. Sacred Site (1986)
7 min | Documentary, Short
High speed film and time-lapse photography combined to create breathtaking images of the night sky and Halley's Comet in this astronomical short subject.
Director: Ron Fricke
Votes: 61
6. Mark Twain and Me (1991 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama
Dorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, during the final years of his life.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jason Robards, Talia Shire, R.H. Thomson, Fiona Reid
Votes: 193
7. At Hell's Door (1960)
85 min | Drama
In less than ten hours, at 06:22 precisely, Halley's comet will strike the Earth, ending all life in the small community of a Greek island. Now, the village's priest has a mission from God to accomplish; but, can hatred turn into love?
Director: Lila Kourkoulakou | Stars: Lykourgos Kallergis, Aliki Zaverdinou, Maro Kodou, Mimis Stefanakos
Votes: 11
8. The Comet's Tale (1998)
8 min | Animation, Short
The film uses a variety of techniques to show how a comet, returning at regular intervals, makes a different impression on each visit as our ideas about the cosmos develop.
Director: Gerald Conn
11.
A Science Odyssey (1998– )
Episode:
Mysteries of the Universe
(1998)
History
At the beginning of the century, discoveries about the hidden workings of the everyday world suggest all is not as it seems. Quantum theory, relativity, nuclear power, and clues about the ... See full summary »
Directors: Noel Buckner, Rob Whittlesey | Stars: Charles Osgood, Sallie Baliunas, Niels Bohr, Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Votes: 12
12.
How the Universe Works (2010– )
Episode:
Comets - Frozen Wanderers
(2012)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
We follow the odyssey of a comet as it sails through space, watching every move as it evolves from a chunk of ice and rock into an active nucleus engulfed in a gaseous haze. What we learn ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Warner | Stars: Erik Dellums, Richard Lintern, Phil Plait, Peter H. Schultz
Votes: 99
13.
The Universe (2007–2015)
Episode:
Ride the Comet
(2012)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Board a virtual space ship to travel along with a variety of comets; long and short period, sun grazers, comets masquerading as asteroids and comets still in deep freeze in the Oort cloud. ... See full summary »
Director: Laura Verklan | Stars: Erik Thompson, Amy Mainzer, Don Yeomans, Alex Filippenko
Votes: 44
14.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Episode:
When Knowledge Conquered Fear
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary
Neil deGrasse Tyson sets off on the Ship of the Imagination to chase a single comet through its million-year plunge toward Sol. Later, Tyson visits the birth-place of Sir Isaac Newton and ... See full summary »
Directors: Brannon Braga, Ann Druyan, Bill Pope | Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael Chochol, Cary Elwes, Tom Konkle
Votes: 2,457
15.
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