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Summary: The best set of DVDs I have ever purchased
Review: This set of DVDs brilliantly captures the lives of the astronauts and the world around them at the time of the Apollo missions.The special effects are pretty awesome too. Historically, these are mostly accurate too, and give a real feeling of being there. It rekindled my memories of sitting watching the events on TV as a child as it was so realistic! It is so sad that the series was shown at strange hours here in the UK. Most of my friends who have seen some of the footage have now gone to the expense of getting region free DVD players and the US edition of the DVDs. This series is so good it becomes an obsession! This is by far the best work Tom Hanks has done for humanity - documenting history that historians seem to want to forget! Buy it now. You won't regret it. I only wish a region 2 version was available....
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Summary: Greatest event what I still remember
Review: Tom Hanks' "From the Earth to the Moon" is one of the best TVshows.About this boxset,I am very disappointed defference between regions.(Because Japan is REGION 2,so I can see this box not by REGION 1.)In 1969,when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon,I was 6 and an elementaryschoolgirl,I still remember what happened on the Moon.One of the best segment is "1968",a successful mission of Apollo 8.11th segment,story of New-Nine astronauts' wives directed by Sally Field ,is very interesting angle from a same woman's view.Only sagment Tom Hanks as an actor,Georges Melies'"LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE"showed how to make the movies in early 1900's.These 12segments showed success,failure,endeavour and achievement of space programs.
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Summary: The right stuff
Review: Having read Andrew Chaikin's "A man on a moon", I learnt that Tom Hanks had produced this HBO mini series and I was eager to see it. And what I saw was absolutely captivating. This film is exactly the kind of stuff one likes to discover when passionate about the race to the moon. Questions like: how do we undertake a voyage to the moon; what kind of problems had to be solved to conceive a spacecraft able to land on the moon; how does an astronaut inside a lunar module put on a spacesuit - and many others - are answered throughout these 12 enthralling episodes. The enthusiasm of Tom Hanks and of all his staff for this amazing space adventure can be felt all through the film. A special mention must be made here for the episode depicting how Prof. Lee Silver and "The King" Farouk El Baz succeeded in turning fully accomplished pilot-astronauts into very skilled explorers of the unknown. Along with Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" and Philip Kaufman's "The right stuff", this HBO miniseries is a "must" for all Apollo nostalgics.
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Summary: I wish it never ended!
Review: I just finished reading Andrew Chaiken's Book "A Man on the Moon"
and decided to watch this series (not knowing it was based on Chaiken's book). I was amazed at how this series helped illustrate everything I had pictured while reading Chaiken's book. This is a phenomenal series and a wonderful complement to Andrew Chaiken's masterpiece. I highly recommend the "From the Earth to the Moon" minseries and "A Man on the Moon" to anyone interested in the spell-binding Apollo program.
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Summary: I loved it, my wife loved it, my 3 year old was enthralled
Review: It is a part of history that will never be forgotten. The goal is incredible, we all know roughly what happened but the tension is still there. My 3 year old son was fascinated, we watched one episode every night or so together as a family - it was great fun. I highly recommend it for everyone.
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Summary: A monumental achievement
Review: This is an expensive boxed set, and it would be natural to wonder if a made-for-TV documentary is worth the price. Don't worry, though; you'll get every penny's worth. This is nothing short of the definitive telling of the American manned space program through the Apollo program. It contains 12 hours of material, plus a disk of bonus materials. The series uses a primarily dramatic retelling, rather than a factual presentation. This is used to great effect, as it better captures the spirit of the times. To get the general idea, imagine the Tom Hanks movie "Apollo 13" expanded to encompass the rest of the space program. Some of the parts can take your breath away, as you re-live the challenges of the Apollo program and experience the awe of accomplishments that they made.
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Summary: Out of this world!
Review: Excellent series. As soon as I finished watching it, I watched it again. My favorite parts were "Spider" (the LM and Apollo 9), "Is that all there is?" (Apollo 12), and the geology episode (Apollo 15). My favorite scene was when Dave Scott was trying to convince Deke Slayton to cut back on abort propellant so that he could take a special rake for soil sampling. Each part had a distinct approach to telling the story, but they all fit together very nicely.
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Summary: Tom Hanks... you have earned M.W.O.'s total respect!!!!
Review: Mr. Hanks, Being of the Mercury generation, I am in total awe of what you have accomplished with "From the Earth to the Moon". I am just sorry I had not seen it when it came out on HBO. I don't do TV much at all. As I sit here in the 100" dome collecting data for astrophysies, I can't help but be jealous of the dedicated astonauts that got to touch what we only image. I am in awe. Thank you for your skill in revealing the true lives of the men who helped us achieve the knowledge we now hold. I truly hope each generation holds this documentary dear as we do.
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Summary: One small step.
Review: I really enjoyed the series. It shows all the problems which were involved, not only the technical ones, but also all the political and logistical problems as well. It very well reflects the enormous amount of money, resources and manpower involved in this grand event. Enjoyed it till the last minute.
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Summary: Very good...
Review: Awesome series, with first class Moon special effects, with some faults (they showed a Soyuz rocket start before Leonov's spacewalk, instead of a Voshod rocket , two different actor plays Pete Conrad), with very good actors, directors (for example Frank Marshall) and composers (Michael Kamen, James Newton Howard and Mason Daring for example). It is dramatic,exciting, interesting and we can learn some really touching things about these heroes. Without doubt the best episode is the 'Mare Tranquilitatis' about the Apollo 11. It is very kind from the filmmakers to finally show Mr. Werner von Braun who played a major role in the Moon program. The moonlanding is truly a great success , not just for the Americans but for the whole world. For example I am very proud when I remember that a Hungarian engineer (Ferenc Pavlics) designed the Lunar Roving Vehicle. And as we can see in this series it functioned very well :) It would be very interesting if somebody finally made a mini series (or movie) about the Russian space program (at that time) and we can see that spaceheroes weren't born just in the US, but in Russia too...
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