Apollo 11: The Eagle Has Landed

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Starring: Apollo 11
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Type: DVD
Studio: Classic Pictures
Release Date: 2005-04-26

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It never was able to really raise a level of excitement in me, which given my feelings for the space program, is hard to do
As someone who grew up worshipping the American space program, I was thrilled when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. It was and remains the greatest single triumph of science and technology. Over the years, I have watched many documentaries, VHS tapes and now DVDs about the events that led up to the first landing by humans on another "planet."
However, while this DVD begins with the start of the ideas of rocketry and has some interesting features about the trek to the first moon landing, selecting a narrator with a British accent was somewhat deflating. Far more serious was the pedestrian pace and the music was very poorly selected. It never seemed to really raise a level of excitement, which given my feelings for the space program, is hard to do. Therefore, I can only minimally recommend this DVD.

Find a Better Moon Landing DVD
This documentary while informative, traces the whole space program right up until it finally gets to the Apollo 11 mission. The narration with Mr. British Accent was boring and the score with constant bass rumblings and the obligatory high-pitched harmonies was annoying.

I recommend the HBO set "From The Earth To The Moon" for a trip through the whole space program and look for a separate Apollo 11 documentary.

Excellent, but not primarily about Apollo 11
Good to excellent 90 minute history of man looking and venturing into space up to and including most of the flight of Apollo 11. However only the final 20 minutes of this documentary is devoted to Apollo 11 and the return to earth portion of the Apollo 11 mission is not covered. The rest is history of space including excellent history of Robert Goddard, Wernher von Braun, President Kennedy's Go to the Moon Speech and highlights of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs and much more. This DVD also contains a Special Feature talk titled "Remembering Apollo 11" by Michael Collins who was the Command Module pilot for the Apollo 11 mission. Did get the sense from this Apollo 11 DVD that Wernher von Braun more than any other person was responsible for man getting to the moon and really lighting the fire of the world's imagination that this dream could become a reality. The Apollo 11 name does not really fit the majority of the material in the DVD. To place yourself into the world of 1969 and get the image of the mission people living on earth at that time had would recommend as a supplement or alternative the DVDs "Nova To The Moon" which has as much coverage about Apollo 11 as this DVD does and or "Above and Beyond" which is a 10 hour series on space that has two episodes (16 & 19, about 45 minutes total) devoted to Apollo 11 that really capture much more of the Apollo 11 mission and what was going on in the world at the time.