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- Alternate versionsAfter the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986, the 4th episode of this 4-part mini-series was redone to include footage and interviews about the disaster.
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non-fiction programming at its best
In the sixties my father worked for a NASA sub-contractor and thus had a small role in the American space program. He would bring home NASA film clips (PR stuff) and show them on our 8mm projector for the neighborhood. Watching this series in 1985 brought back a lot of good memories of that amazing time. It was marvelously done, with archive footage both familiar and lesser-known, combined with new interviews with a stellar list of individuals, many of whom are no longer with us. It captured the excitement and uncertainty and humanity of the endeavor. And the music was spine-tingling good! Top it with Martin Sheen's narration and you have a corker of a documentary series that puts most modern efforts to shame. It's hard to believe this series was first broadcast twenty years ago!
This would be a marvelous series to have on DVD, unfortunately it appears to only be available on VHS for now.
This would be a marvelous series to have on DVD, unfortunately it appears to only be available on VHS for now.
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- little_red_corvette
- Jul 12, 2005
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- Runtime3 hours 46 minutes
- Color
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