The James Webb Telescope stirs imaginations with vivid photos of distant galaxies. This documentary tracks its historic journey from inception to launch.
Cinematography
Those first JWST images will wreck you properly
Production
Squeezing decades of terror and hope into 64 minutes
Direction
Shai Gal lets the science breathe, doesn't over-narrate
Director
Shai Gal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The JWST operates at -223°C, colder than Pluto, because warm telescopes glow in infrared and blind themselves to distant light.
The documentary barely mentions it, but the telescope was nearly cancelled multiple times; this film is essentially a victory lap nobody guaranteed.
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