Product Description

The 21st July 1969 will live long in the memories of those lucky enough to witness the events being beamed live into their living room and remember the pride felt as man conquered the final frontier. This special 40th anniversary commemorative box set explores those inspiring events as Neil Armstrong stepped down from Eagle and in to the pages of history with the immortal words 'that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. Using archive footage this double-sided DVD covers the lunar missions from Apollo 11 to the safe return of Apollo 17 and includes the fateful mission of Apollo 13. FREE BONUS DVD THE QUEST FOR CONTACT: NASA'S SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE. Some fear it; some dedicate their lives to prove it - the existence of life beyond our planet. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (or S.E.T.I.) is an enormous undertaking, looking for a golden needle in a huge cosmic haystack. NASA has dedicated a large part of its time and resources in the bid to locate and communicate with other life forms in a bid to prove or disprove that we are not alone.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16009 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-06-22
• Rating: Exempt
• Formats: Dolby, PAL
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 120 minutes

Synopsis
THE APOLLO MISSIONS is a fabulous documentary that covers the lunar missions from Apollo 11 through to the safe return of Apollo 17 and utilises archive footage.

Customer Reviews

Houston, we have a problem!
And the problem is ..... the packaging states this is "to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Man's first moon landing". The phrase "Using archive footage" is slightly misleading. This is in fact an archive documentary, to judge from the film quality and the portentous commentary it dates from some time in the 70's. The SETI bonus documentary must be from the late 80's because it talks about what will happen in the 90's. The female commentary and narcotic background music would cure any insomniac.

I had rather been hoping that the "40th Anniversary" presentation would include some latter-day digital footage and perhaps a 21st century perspective on the moon landings and what the future might hold. Of course a certain amount of archive footage is inevitable in this kind of presentation, but a whole documentary from that time is damn near unwatchable to a digital-age viewer, and certainly holds no surprises!

I can only hope this anniversary will be marked elsewhere with a bit more effort and imagination.

Apollo
Utterly awful. Dreadful quality visuals. Dreadful "soundtrack". An utter waste of money. If you want the immense emotion of Apollo then buy "In the Shadow of the Moon" instead with one of the best soundtracks in film history to accompany awesore visual sequences.

Very Poor
This is a really poor DVD set. I buy EVERYTHING that I can on the Apollo Missions but this is so poor will not be keeping it.
Old film poorly scripted, an "extra" which looks forward to 1990!