Apollo 13: Survival (2024)

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

Documentary History spacecraft nasa 1970s space mission rescue mission interview astronaut struggle for survival rescue team archive footage trapped in space historical drama

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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.

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classical in formformally daring
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Neil ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
Jules BergmanSelf (archive footage)
James BurkeSelf (archive footage)
Walter CronkiteSelf (archive footage)
Fred HaiseSelf (archive footage)
Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
Richard NixonSelf (archive footage)
Jim LovellSelf (archive footage)
Glynn LunneySelf (archive footage)
Thomas PaineSelf (archive footage)

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Pete MiddletonDirector
Anna MacDonaldDirector of Photography
James SpinneyOriginal Music Composer
Otto BurnhamEditor
Clive PattersonProducer
Hugh DaviesProducer
Pete MiddletonProducer

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