Apollo 13 (Netflix)

I watched this tonight on a flight - at the end I was literally a quivering pile of goo, an absolute mess.

It’s a brilliantly edited archival piece, not a documentary in the traditional sense. None of the video or audio was made for the film (apart from a few demonstrative graphics) - but they took 7,000 hours of video, mostly from the coverage of the mission itself laid over with contemporary audio and interviews from a time more closely associated with the event.

It’s simply incredible. It has to be one of the greatest stories ever in the history of mankind. I say this objectively - both because it is unique/unprecedented in its context and absolutely incredible in how it unfolded.

It’s hard to imagine how this incredible story could be any more perfectly told than this.


https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81444292?s=i&trkid=260530190&vlang=en&clip=81903147

Thanks for the endorsement Chuck. I will definitely check it out