In Green Bank, West Virginia, modern technology goes quiet so a giant radio telescope can listen for signals from the universe.
What might we hear in the silence?
“Small Town Universe does a terrific job of showing that the backbone of science is people.”
Talia Sepersky
Planetarium Educator, Museum of Science
“We are grateful for fresh, modern, important films such as Small Town Universe that destroy stereotypes about Appalachia.”
-Dave Lavender, West Virginia Department of Economic Development
“This film was so beautiful!!!! Made my inner Wrinkle in Time child heart smile.”
“Oh wow the universe is beautiful”
“Makes you root for Green Bank. The story of life.”
“Ellie is the GOAT”
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“I love seeing all these smart women, and I love how this movie challenges the common conception of Appalachian intelligence!”
“Crafts and interweaves some brutally human narratives around a town that is at once more natural and more unnatural than anywhere else in the United States.”
“Cried twice at this telescope documentary.”