Overview (2012)

A short film (19 minutes) that punches astronomically above its runtime. Based on Frank White's "Overview Effect" — the cognitive shift astronauts experience when seeing Earth from space — the film features interviews with five astronauts who describe the moment they looked back at Earth and felt their entire worldview shift. Ron Garan describes weeping at the thin blue line of the atmosphere. The visuals are stunning ISS footage, but it's the astronauts' halting, emotional descriptions of planetary-scale perspective that make this unforgettable.