There is a body of films that feature space stations. Science fiction films are the most popular genre to have featured both real-life space stations such as the International Space Station and Mir as well as fictional ones such as the Death Star and the Satellite of Love.
List of films
Non-documentary films involving direct use of a real space station as a plot element
Films involving indirect use of a real space station or partially fictionalized space station as a plot element
Films involving use of a fully fictionalized space station as a plot element
Notes
A. Partially fictionalized meaning either directly based on a heavily studied real concept/station (e.g. the S-IVB Orbital Workshop in Marooned), or an extension of an existing modern station (e.g. the World Space Station in Mission to Mars being an extension of the International Space Station.) Some stations share the name of real space stations (e.g. the International Space Station IV in Geostorm) but are otherwise unrelated, these are in the "fully fictionalized" category.
See also
The following films also include spacecraft that have also been called space stations by outside sources:
- Silent Running (1972), which features the space freighter Valley Forge
- The Fifth Element (1997), which features the space liner Fhloston Paradise
- WALL-E (2008), which features the generation ship Axiom
- The Wandering Earth (2019), features the International Space Station, which despite its name, follows the same interstellar trajectory of the aforementioned wandering Earth.
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