Apollo 13: Survival – Heading to Netflix
A Netflix Original Documentary Produced by Insight Film in association with Fee Fie Foe.
Directed by Peter MiddletonProduced by Clive Patterson & Hugh DaviesExecutive Consultant – James Marsh
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“Stirring, frequently nail-biting… A gripping, edge-of-the-cockpit reconstruction”
Wendy Ide, Screen International
“We may think we know the story of Apollo 13, but this documentary offers so much more than seen before. This is an excellent work, by far the best documentary on Apollo 13 yet made”
Roger D. Launius, former NASA Chief Historian
APOLLO 13: SURVIVAL launches on Netflix on 5th September
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Just nine months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moon landing, NASA faced the greatest crisis in its history. On the night of April 13th 1970, a catastrophic explosion rocked the Apollo 13 spacecraft, stranding three astronauts halfway to the moon. Within a few hours, the primary oxygen and power supply would be gone, setting the stage for one of the great survival stories in human history.
What unfolded over the next four days was a rescue mission like no other; a knife-edge, life-or-death drama, broadcast in real time to the watching world.
APOLLO 13: SURVIVAL is an archive-led re-telling of the crisis. The story is brought to life with rare access to the complete audio recordings of the mission, never-before-seen film materials, and archival interviews with the crew, their families and the team at Ground Control. The approach immerses the audience in unfolding drama of the emergency – a uniquely cinematic experience of the most dramatic story in spaceflight history.
APOLLO 13: SURVIVAL is Peter Middleton’s first solo-directed feature-length production, following his BAFTA nominated and BIFA winning partnership with James Spinney that brought audiences the acclaimed feature-length documentaries Notes on Blindness and The Real Charlie Chaplin.
