NOVA - To the Moon
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Movie Reviews of NOVA - To the Moon
Movie Review: Great overview of moon missions!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this video! I've watched it at least four times now (I use it in an astronomy class I teach) and originally had it on VHS. I decided to get it on DVD so that it would be easier to jump around. There really isn't any part of this that is boring or repetitive. Great original footage as well as interviews with the astronauts in present day. Very eye-opening and highly reccomended!Movie Review: The one to buy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Im a big NASA nut, and this is simply the best all-in-one documentary of the first act of the Space Age from the American point of view. For the USSR side of the story, check out the RED FILES spotlight on Sergei Koroliev...that makes an excellent companion pice the the NOVA special.Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best shows on the Apollo program and I have seen and read about everything out there. It has great interviews and information not found any where else. This is Nova at its greatest, bravo!Movie Review: The one I always go back to ...
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an avid collector of dvds and books on the early space program thru the Apollo program. This is the dvd that I watch over and over again. Very well done, and well worth having.Movie Review: Many decades later, still worth celebrating
Summary: 4 Stars
. . . and this DVD clearly is a celebration of mankind's most daring, technological achievement to date. If it were possible to have filmed a historically accurate documentary about the building of the great pyramids of Egypt, THIS DVD would still be #1 in my collection.
The history of getting "To the Moon" is a fascinating subject and my hat goes off to the first generation of Americans who actually did it! This DVD produced by PBS for NOVA is indeed a celebration of that generation's most outstanding achievement.
Other reviewers have already said most that can be told about "To the Moon", and I too am tempted to give five stars. But not quite, as I am quite surprised that such a video could have been produced, supposedly in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first Moon landing, without including ANY interviews with Neil Armstrong, "the first Man" not only go "to the Moon", but first to set foot on a celestrial body in outer space. My God, Armstrong is practically a national treasure, a real American space hero, and deserving much more than just a passing mention (via archival footage) in this DVD. I don't recall hearing his famous words, "That's one small step for Man . . . one giant leap for Mankind" even being mentioned during the segment on Apollo 11.
So, in some respects this documentary is seemingly lacking in certain aspects of the MOST historical events that should be celebrated on the 30th anniversary on the first landing.
This video is actually much more than that; in fact, many other most publicized Moon missions, Apollo 8, 13, 15 and the last, 17, are covered, plus some of the Mercury and Gemini mission as well. Sadly, there was no mention of the earliest and perhaps most noteable U.S. achievement in space, the first Earth orbital fight, yet all three Gemini space walks were included. How could John Glenn's Mercury flight been skipped over?
Nevertheless, this DVD warrants very high praise for what it does cover, all of which were significant contributions to America's venture into space; Apollo 13's "successful failure" notwithstanding. This DVD pretty much tells the whole story, from the late 50s, to the last Apollo mission in December 1972, and does so admirably. There is even rare footage of Eisenhower and Kennedy's earliest contributions to the space race that I have never seen before in any other related documentary film.
I would have awarded it five stars if not for the omissions mentioned. Most other space documentary films have their own set of flaws too. Still, "To the Moon" rates right up there with the best of them.
If however, one wishes to truly savor each and every important sequentially historical event of the space program, especially during the Apollo era, and one has 12 hours to do so, I whole heartedly recommend the HBO miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon". That miniseries is an exceedingly high quality, TV dramatization, yet historically accurate, and provides vastly more in-depth (and memorable) treatment of this subject matter.
Better yet, invest 14 hours of your time and watch both these history of early manned space flight DVDs, as they certainly are well worth watching.