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Fabulous series. Original footage mixed with new film really takes you back in time. Makes you feel like its happening right now. Touches on the technology it to to get to the moon. Hits the highs and lows the Apollo missions. I really like how he got into the personalities of the Astronauts, engineers and individuals involved. They all tell a personal inside look of the mission and what it took to get there. Still great after almost twenty years.
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There’s a reason that Band of Brothers is available in bunch of places (HBO, Amazon Prime, airs on cable most Memorial/Veterans Day) yet From the Earth to the Moon isn’t even on HBO anywhere. BoB is excellent storytelling. FTETTM is absolutely... *blah*. It lacks detail to early development and especially missions. Apollo 11 is on disc one for cryin’ out loud. Situations and characters are played jovially in a few places, as if the producers know that their space footage is lacking. I’m really disappointed. Do yourself a favor and watch Ryan Gosling in “First Man” instead. And find one of the many Apollo documentaries out there (most of them on Netflix) that suits you. Pass on this.
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From the Earth to the Moon is a documentary that Tom Hanks was the executive producer for. HBO put out the series a few years ago, but they are so well done, they are timeless. This documentary gives us the space race from 1961 with Kennedy's speech, to the last of the Apollo missions in the mid 1970's. Each documentary shows a little different piece of the picture. Some show one of the Apollo missions, but others show what it was like to be the wife of an astronaut, what it was like to be a news reporter, the new guy in space, one shows major events in 1968 and the effect on a family, why astronauts need to be geologists, and the making of the Lunar Module. It is so well done that I actually feel like I have been to the moon and back. I feel like I understand the space race as if I had been alive at the time. Like a good book, I couldn't put it down. I watched one right after another. I haven't seen the special features yet, but they appear promising. This documentary is worth the money if you have any interest in astronomy or the 1960's. Tom Hanks really did his homework and produced an excellent feature.Read full review
From the Earth to the Moon is quite probably the greatest story ever told. It is the real life story of the Apollo moon missions and was produced by Ron Howard and Tom Hanks (Apollo 13). The producers went to great lengths to ensure the production's historical accuracy. According to Hanks, one can be sure that if it is in the movie, it happened. The first episode of the HBO miniseries begins with the Geminii program and then the show quickly moves onto Apollo 1. Not only about the Apollo missions' astronauts, it is also very much about the people behind the curtain who made it possible for us to voyage from the Earth to the Moon. If you liked The Right Stuff and Apollo 13, From the Earth to the Moon fits right in.
Being a great fan of "Apollo 13" with Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton and or course Ed Harris, I always wondered why another movies on the Apollo missions hadn't been made, especially Apollo 11. In France, where I live, the "From the Earth to the Moon" series have received very little publicity and I believe they were never broadcast except, maybe on some far-fetched satellite channel. It's when I bought "Band of Brothers" on Amazon.com that I learned about the "From the Earth to the Moon" series and, after watching some sequences on Youtube, I decided to buy them. I haven't seen them all yet, but I couldn't help from watching directly "Mare Tranquilitas" and I was thrilled. The landing sequence is breath taking and is a great tribute to the men that worked for this great achievement. Then I watched "That's all there is" about Apollo 12. Frankly, I thought it would be hard to make a good episode about Apollo 12 after the one about Apollo 11. There is nothing really sensational about Apollo 12 but the episode is, so far, my favorite! It's just hilarious, which brings really a new insight about the Apollo missions. I'm definitely a french and great fan of "From the Earth to the Moon" and of HBO for their other great historical series like "Band of Brothers" and "John Adams" and I'm impatiently waiting for the next one!Read full review
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