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NOVA - To the Moon
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781578075522
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1578075521
Label: WGBH Boston
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
MPN: 998
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH Boston
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 08, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: WGBH Boston
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Editorial Review:
This engaging two-hour documentary from NOVA detailing America's space program was produced for the 30th anniversary of the first moon shots. While no 120-minute film can tell all the stories of the space program, To the Moon is more comprehensive than other similar videos. The film details the method that Americans used to reach the moon: lunar orbit rendezvous (one ship circles the moon while another lands). This concept wasn't even on the drawing board at NASA, and the video chronicles the struggle of engineers and astronauts to work out a solution. The space footage focuses on Gemini missions that rehearsed rendezvous in space and the most extravagant Apollo missions (numbers 8, 11, 13, 15, and 17). The film reunites several astronauts for fresh perspectives on the importance of the program, including the knowledge gained about the geology of the moon. Generation X actor Liev Schreiber (Scream 2) supplies the narration for this video, which is a great companion to the From the Earth to the Moon miniseries. --Doug Thomas
The mission was impossible. The odds were astronomical. The results were spectacular. NOVA presents the fascinating story behind the Apollo space program, including the most remarkable feat in human history—the historic walk on the moon in 1969. Meet the unsung heroes, experience the dangers and discover a broader range of Apollo perspectives than any space documentary ever produced.
In this expanded two-hour special, you'll see rare footage, explore little-known facts and enjoy rare insightful interviews with the NASA scientists, engineers, geologists and astronauts who made the dream of walking on the moon a reality. Share the vivid recollections of Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Frank Borman, plus legendary Flight Director Gene Kranz. Hear courageous tales from the pioneering Gemini space program. And explore how past lunar discoveries continue to produce exciting revelations.
Special DVD features include: scene selections; access to the To The Moon Web site, featuring panorama views from six moon landings, interactive lunar puzzles, interviews with top Apollo astronauts, and more; access to the NASA and NOVA web sites; and English subtitles.
On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Script assumes you are unintelligent and unknowing
The use of present-tense verbs to describe events from the past is now commonplace in our post-literate age, especially by historians when talking down to lay people. This script does that, and worse. Consider this excerpt: "In the 1950s, travel to the Moon is about to become possible because of the rocket. Long used as a weapon, the rocket is the only engine that can be used in a vacuum." That's not true, and it's the kind of falsehood that sometimes happens when adults over-simplify their subject ... Read More
Rating:  - Great for the new enthusiast
This documentary gave me exactly what I was looking for. Born 15 years after the first Moon landing, the whole space race was old news when I learned about it in school. I knew the major events, but the details were lost. I wanted to know more about the young space program and the lunar missions, but I didn't want to sit through the hours and hours that some of the other documentaries offer.
Nova has condensed all the basic facts to create an informative summary. I gained a new perspective ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent
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!
Rating: - The one I always go back to ...
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.
Rating:  - Many decades later, still worth celebrating
. . . 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 ... Read More
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