Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine

2023

Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86%
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 3265 3.3K

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Plot summary

The James Webb Telescope stirs imaginations with vivid photos of distant galaxies. This documentary tracks its historic journey from inception to launch.

Director

Shai Gal Photo
Shai Gal

Top cast

Joe Biden Photo
Joe Biden as Self - President of the United States
Amber Straughn Photo
Amber Straughn as Self - Astrophysicist at NASA
Bill Nelson Photo
Bill Nelson as Self - NASA Administrator
Thomas Zurbuchen Photo
Thomas Zurbuchen as Self - Head of Science Programs NASA
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jerry-32590 6 / 10

Too long winded but some good info

Why do women always begin something by saying 'when I was a little girl.....'? Or something about "me"? The personal stories of people involved in James webb are irrelevant. Maybe a few seconds would be enough, and not tens of minutes. The James Webb project was the reason to watch the show. While the telescope did end up extremely exciting and it's changing our views about the age of the universe and possibly the Big Bang theory, the show is quite boring and slow. While the woman scientist (or engineer?) was focused on herself and her emotions and experiences on the projects, the guys talked mostly about the project.
Reviewed by keikoyoshikawa 5 / 10

Disappointing Documentary

This documentary was surprisingly bland, not very informative, short on good insights into the James Webb space telescope project, and perhaps worst of all more of a sales pitch or propaganda rather than an educational film.There was a point towards the end of the documentary in which a couple of senior politicians are given a cringe-worthy briefing by a NASA administrator on the first set of photos taken of the very first galaxies 13.5 billion years ago.Throughout it all I was wondering why we are seeing this at all. What's the point? Where's the interesting stuff about designing and building the telescope? About the controversies of the naming of the telescope? About what it has done for astronomy?This was definitely a missed opportunity and a disappointing documentary.
Reviewed by PalmBeachG 9 / 10

"Light In A Dark Time"

"Light in A Dark Time", a quote from a female astrophysicist on the show, is the best way to describe the James Webb telescope. The short documentary is definitely worth watching as it showcases the difficulty in designing, leading, getting funding, the disappointments and all hurdles that had to be overcome to be able to have the very risky and near impossible successful launch. Now that it is launched, humanity can see back in time 13 1/2 billion years ago, and the first image shared showed a massive amount of galaxies that old. I didn't give it a 10 star rating because quite honestly, if you are not an astrophysicist, and just a normal average citizen, it is extremely hard to wrap your mind around it (the shear time and distance of it) and hard to actually understand how truly awesome it is. Even by the awe on the astrophysicist's faces who do understand the meaning the Time Machine concept and distance, it is so amazing for them to comprehend it all as well at first look. Am sure it is just a first look at what is to come with more discoveries as scientists study the images.
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