Best Moon / Space documentaries?

stoke1863 · 10 Dec 2011 at 13:01

Im wanting to watch some good documantieries on any of the apollo space missions or anything to do witht he solar system.

Any ideas?

VaderDSL · 10 Dec 2011 at 13:06

Personally I thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(TV_miniseries) was amazing, granted it's not a documentary as such, but it's a mini series that's accepted as being very accurate to what happened.

Well worth a watch, I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

Glaucus · 10 Dec 2011 at 13:07

Not Apollo, but shuttle.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-space-shuttles-last-flight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012x69w

General space science
http://science.discovery.com/tv/through-the-wormhole/

arknor · 10 Dec 2011 at 13:12

stargate or starwars

stoke1863 · 10 Dec 2011 at 13:14

Some great suggestions! Glaucus i have seen a few of the "through the wormhole" and its really good, im gojng to try and get some more of them

Jimz · 10 Dec 2011 at 17:33

Star wars Episode 1-3

londonbairn · 10 Dec 2011 at 18:19

NASA's Greatest Missions Bluray boxset is pretty awesome

steveo · 10 Dec 2011 at 18:32

best one i have seen for awhile is BBC The Planets

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283775/

also another BBC show called space narrated by sam neill

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273608/

PermaBanned · 10 Dec 2011 at 18:36

Aside from From Earth to the Moon (which i've been meaning to get the DVD of for a while now - does anyone have any advice on PAL v NTSC?) and NASA's Greatest Missions which have already been mentioned, the BBC's Space Race is decent enough, and sadly the only real documentary available about the Soviet space programme. There are a few inaccuracies in it though, so watch out for that.

Embed · 11 Dec 2011 at 19:07

'When We Left Earth'

Amazing documentary!

MookJong · 11 Dec 2011 at 20:09

This is utterly utterly amazing

In the shadow of the moon

Moothead2 · 11 Dec 2011 at 20:14

Wonders of series.

DBT85 · 11 Dec 2011 at 20:44

When We Left Earth and From The Earth To The Moon would be two of my suggestions but other wise people got there first!

SexyGreyFox · 11 Dec 2011 at 21:31

When We Left Earth

Chicken #16 · 12 Dec 2011 at 01:12

I remember some years back there was a big celebration (might have been 1994 or 1999) and most evenings you could watch apollo mission footage set to music well into the morning. I'm sure it went on for hours. A quick google:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Mvfg_koDk

not sure if it was this but very similar.

Cosimo · 12 Dec 2011 at 12:32

My dvd collection consists of:

Apollo 11 - Men On The Moon
The Sky At Night: Apollo 11 - A Night To Remember
NASA's Greatest Missions
In The Shadow of the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon
Space Race

Dirk · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:39

'The Right Stuff'. Read the Tom Woolf book, or watch the movie that came from it.

Both are unmissable.

Crizzy · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:54

For All Mankind surely?

This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and mission control. Reinart uses the astronaunts' own words from interviews and from the mission footage. The score by Brian Eno underscores the strangeness, wonder, and and beauty of the astronauts' experiences--experiences which they were privileged to have for a first time "for all mankind."

IMDB

Available in Blu Ray as well, absolutely stunning.

Mik3 · 12 Dec 2011 at 17:33

Moon machines is also very good.

gam3r · 13 Dec 2011 at 20:55

The universe
through the wormhole
Wonders of the solar system
Wonders of the universe
When we left the earth
Carl sagans cosmos
Into the universe(Stephen hawking series)

Any others?