The Space Exploration Series continues today with From the Earth to the Moon, which even fifteen years after its premiere is one of the most amazing American television productions of all time. After the success of Apollo 13, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer had joined forces again to tell the story of the moon race in twelve hour-long movies, which felt more like cinema and less than just television. Treading confidently in the footsteps of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff, the series brilliantly covers almost everything about the Moon race, bringing wonderful actors, great scripts and a first-class production with real enthusiasm together. Today’s post is a translated and heavily expanded review of my original German article from a couple of years ago about the American DVD re-release from 2005.

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