
Wild Wild Space (2024)
You’ve heard about the billionaire space race. This isn’t that movie.
Wild Wild Space follows the quests of Astra Space, Planet Labs and Rocket Lab as they compete to blast satellite-carrying rockets into low Earth orbit.
From exhilarating triumphs to gut-wrenching setbacks, we’re witnessing the fierce competition for humanity’s next great frontier. But beneath the shiny veneer of progress is the dark side of capitalism’s insatiable appetite for profit and the far-reaching reverberations of a world controlled from the skies.
Inspired by the best-selling book When the Heavens Went on Sale by South African-born journalist and Emmy nominee Ashlee Vance, Wild Wild Space is directed by Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ross Kaufmann (Born into Brothels).
The HBO Original Documentary has an 88% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the Wall Street Journal hailing it as “a documentary that has the right stuff and asks the right questions.”
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