52 titles on the air now, made between 1922 and 2026 - about 37 hours of viewing in all. 22 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 30 are shorts. 6 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.
Every documentary on the air at Starlite TV. Many are U.S. federal government works - NASA films and World War II productions - which are public domain under U.S. law; others are classic non-fiction films whose copyrights have expired.
Documentaries run 24/7 on Doc Vault, and NASA films also air on Space Live (website only) when NASA is not broadcasting live.
Where to start
Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.
Artemis II: Around the Moon, Part 1 - Passing Apollo 13 (2026)103 min · Doc Vault Artemis II flew from April 1 to April 11, 2026. It was the first crewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, and the first time people had travelled beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Artemis II: Around the Moon, Part 3 - Eclipse from the Moon (2026)100 min · Doc Vault After coming back into contact from behind the Moon, the Artemis II crew had one more rare sight ahead of them. From Orion's position, the Moon passed in front of the Sun, giving the four astronauts a solar eclipse that was visible only from their spacecraft.
The Battle of Midway (1942)18 min · Doc Vault When the United States Navy sent Commander John Ford — the director of Stagecoach and The Grapes of Wrath, then serving in the Navy's photographic unit — to Midway Island in mid-1942, it was supposedly to film routine footage of the base. Two days before the battle, Ford learned that the Japanese planned to attack.
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)65 min · Doc Vault Dziga Vertov was a Soviet documentary filmmaker and the leader of a group who called themselves the "kinoks" ("cine-eyes").
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)42 min · Doc Vault In 1942 the Hollywood director William Wyler — director of Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights and The Little Foxes — joined the US Army Air Forces as a major and was sent to England to film the daylight bombing campaign over Europe.
★ = prime-time headliner. Click a title for its next showtimes in your time zone and the full rights evidence. Why these are free to show: U.S. government work: 46; Published before 1931: 6. How we check: Content & Rights.
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Watch NASA's own Apollo mission films free on Starlite TV - from Apollo 4 to Apollo 17, plus Mercury, Gemini, Skylab and the Space Shuttle. Public domain, streaming 24/7.
