Star Men
Four exceptional astronomers celebrate 50 years of work and friendship on a return road trip in the southwestern United States, recapturing youthful adventures and recounting each other's influences on the most exciting period in astronomy’s history. Roger the instrument-maker, Donald the theoretician, Nick the visionary, and Wal the observer. Together they represent the most productive period astronomy has ever had. They helped build the world’s biggest observatories and made revolutionary discoveries about the evolving universe, discoveries that have the power to change the way humanity sees itself. Alison Rose’s film is a funny, insightful, humbling and intimate portrait of friendship, as the men reflect on how their profound work on the universe has reflected back on the individual, affecting their sense of religious faith, how life may have purpose, and what is knowable and unknowable.
Top Cast
Donald Lynden-Bell
as Donald Lynden-Bell
Donald Lynden-Bell
Wallace L.W. Sargent
as Wallace L.W. Sargent
Wallace L.W. Sargent
Ira S. Bowen
as Ira S. Bowen
Ira S. Bowen
More Like This
Bums and Dogs
1993 • Movie

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996 • Movie

Stalin: Man of Steel
2003 • Movie

Opus pro smrtihlava
1984 • Movie

Sounds Like Teen Spirit
2009 • Movie

Eliyahu Rips: The Burning
2016 • Movie

How the Beatles Changed the World
2017 • Movie
H. Spencer Lewis: Restorer of Rosicrucianism
2009 • Movie

Killer at Large
2008 • Movie

Asteroid Hunters
2020 • Movie

Andy Warhol
1987 • Movie

Queen of Speed
2021 • Movie

Isaac Asimov: Voyage to the Outer Planets & Beyond
1986 • Movie

Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
2020 • Movie

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2021 • Movie