A Complete List of the 533 Movies & TV Shows Watched on the International Space Station

Image cour­tesy of NASA

To keep some mea­sure of san­i­ty, the astro­nauts liv­ing aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion (ISS), some 220 miles above our plan­et Earth, make a point of unwind­ing. Accord­ing to NASA, the astro­nauts get week­ends off. And, “on any giv­en day, crew mem­bers can watch movies, play music, read books, play cards and talk to their fam­i­lies.” Ear­li­er this year, Pale­o­Fu­ture gave us a fur­ther glimpse into what astro­naut down­time looks like, when its edi­tor, Matt Novak, print­ed a Com­plete List of Movies and TV Shows On Board the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion. Acquired through a Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion request, the list is a cat­a­logue of every film and TV show in the ISS media library. As Matt notes, there are many clas­sics (e.g. Alfred Hitchcock’s North by North­west), “plen­ty of space-themed and dystopi­an sci-fi movies” (2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Blade Run­ner), and a help­ful serv­ing of com­e­dy (Air­plane). Below, you can find the first 100 items on the list. Get the com­plete list–all 533 movies and TV shows–at Pale­o­fu­ture.

1. 1941
2. 12 Mon­keys
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. 2 Fast 2 Furi­ous
5. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. 21 Jump Street
8. 24 (Sea­sons 1–8)
9. 48 Hours
10. 8 Mile
11. A Christ­mas Car­ol
12. A Christ­mas Sto­ry
13. A Knights Tale
14. A Man and a Woman
15. A Night at the Opera
16. A Night at the Rox­bury
17. A Per­fect Mur­der
18. A Prairie Home Com­pan­ion
19. A Room with a View
20. Absolute­ly Fab­u­lous (Series 1–3)
21. Air Force One
22. Air­plane
23. Alias Sea­son 1
24. Alien
25. Alien 3
26. Alien Res­ur­rec­tion
27. Aliens
28. All Good Things
29. Along Came Pol­ly
30. Always
31. Amer­i­can Gang­ster
32. Amer­i­can Sniper
33. Amer­i­can Wed­ding
34. An Amer­i­can in Paris
35. An Arti­cle of Hope
36. Ana­lyze This
37. Anchor­man
38. Anchor­man 2
39. Ani­mal House (1978)
40. Argo
41. Armaged­don
42. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
43. Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
44. Arrow Sea­son 1
45. Arsenic and Old Lace
46. As Good as it Gets
47. Austin Pow­ers Inter­na­tion­al Man of Mys­tery
48. Austin Pow­ers The Spy Who Shagged Me
49. Aus­tralia
50. Avatar
51. Baby Mama
52. Back to Bataan
53. Back to the Future
54. Back to the Future Part II
55. Back to the Future Part III
56. Back­draft
57. Band of Broth­ers Sea­son 1
58. Bataan
59. Bat­man For­ev­er
60. Bat­man Returns
61. Bat­tle for the Plan­et of the Apes
62. Bat­tle of Britain
63. Bat­tle­ship
64. Beneath the Plan­et of the Apes
65. Ben-Hur
66. Bet­ter Call Saul Sea­son 1
67. Bev­er­ly Hills Cop II
68. Bev­er­ly Hills Cop III
69. Big Bang The­o­ry (Sea­sons 1–8)
70. Big Eyes
71. Big Jake
72. Bil­ly Jack
73. Bird­man, or the Unex­pect­ed Virtue of Igno­rance
74. Black Hawk Down
75. Black Mask
76. Black Swan
77. Blade Run­ner
78. Blaz­ing Sad­dles Blend­ed
79. Blue Plan­et Frozen Seas
80. Blue Plan­et Ocean World
81. Blues Broth­ers
82. Bob Newhart But­ton-Down Con­cert
83. Body of Lies
84. Brave­heart
85. Break­ing Bad Sea­sons 1–6
86. Brides­maids
87. Bull Durham
88. Cad­dyshack
89. Cahill Unit­ed States Mar­shal
90. Cap­tain Amer­i­ca: The First Avenger
91. Cap­tain Amer­i­ca: The Win­ter Sol­dier Cap­tain Phillips
92. Casablan­ca
93. Cast Away
94. Catch-22
95. Celtic Woman Songs from the Heart
96. Chance Are
97. Char­i­ots of Fire
98. Char­lie St Cloud
99. Chil­dren of Men
100. Chisum

Find the com­plete list of 533 films and TV shows here.

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