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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
This is a five(5) DVD box set with four(4) DVD's for the series "From Here to the Moon"(HBO)and one(1) for bonus features. The series is about the journey to the moon from the end of Gemini through Apollo 17 by way of the people who had to make the decisions needed to get there. It is a vicarious experience with many various twists and turns as the actors portray the lives of those closely involved the director/managers, engineers, mineralogist/geologists, astronauts & wives of the astronauts. The bonus features are never enough for me and this is no exception even though they're on a separate disk. One bonus feature shows that this is as close to the real thing as you are likely to get. Is it live or is it Memorex. If the moon landings where faked watch the bonus features to find out how they did it. If it wasn't faked watch the series and see how they did it in a generalized overview outsider sorta way. I rarely watch anything twice this is an exception. If you are a total space geek then you may be disappointed because of details you think are left out but it is a vicarious experience containing tiny snipets of the lives of the people involved along with some historical commentary over a period of about a decade compressed into the few hours of the series.Read full review
Nostagia comes in many forms. Some celebrate the Eucharist and the life of Jesus. Others recall a fallen king. Few subjects are as worthy as the Moon Project. Greater than the Pyramids of Giza Plateau or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Apollo project represents all that was greatest in the human species. When cockroaches evolve in a billion years into intelligent beings with their own Moon Mission they will be greeted by the only things that remain of our long extinct species: alien foot prints, a go-cart or two, the launch stage of several spiderly like space craft. They will wonder about us and give pause that a billion years ago Man walked on the Moon. This DVD collection is our testament to greatness. I lived through it and cried to see it so sensitively protrayed by Hanks and Howard. It should be sent to the Moon and placed in a pyramid to be found millenia from now to inspire new sentiant beings with hope, humility and granduer for a tiny human species from this good planet Earth.Read full review
This is an excellent series. Tom Hanks is executive producer. It's 12 episodes and gives you more insight into the space program. Very entertaining, the characters are great, and you learn some things too. You'll recognize many of the people in it as well.Also, the music is fantastic. The set comes with a CD that has some great 60's music and the theme music which is excellent. The only thing I didn't like about it is that 12 episodes is too short! This could have even more info and insight into what was going on in the space program but my opinion is only because I enjoyed it so much. From whom I bought it: I loved the fact that although used, this product came to me as if brand new. It is in mint shape and was wrapped. Absolutely mint. It came very quikly which is always a big plus.
This is one of the finest pieces of movie making that I've ever seen. It chronicles the US Space program from the early days of the first manned expeditions to the walk on the moon. The acting and direction is suberb. The music is also incredible, it fills you with emotion which helps bring you into the movie. You will laugh and you will cry watching this movie, it brings out so many emotions. There are 12 parts in this movie each directed by a different director, like Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Frank Marshall, and more. I personally have seen this movie 6 times and could sit and watch it another 6 times. It originally was broadcast on HBO as a mini-series and won the Golden Globe for Best Mini Series and an Emmy for Outstanding Mini Series. This is a MUST SEE movie for anyone who is interested in space exploration and superb movie making. After renting this movie 5 times to watch it, I finally broke down and bought a copy of it.Read full review
As a youth & teen during the Apollo years, this captures the spirit of the time balancing those that saw Apollo as “Best of what America had to Offer” against the great financial cost detracting from social spending. An excellent documentary with great performances. Would highly recommend this series to all interested in the Apollo program, anyone interested in 60’s & 70’s history, or anyone interested in a dramatic story about overcoming obstacles. Would recommend The Right Stuff, Apollo 13 and Hidden Figures to complete your understanding of the endeavor to have an American be the first to step foot on the moon.
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