A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

From the Earth to the Moon finally gets the Blu-ray treatment. © 2019 Imagine Entertainment and HBO Home Entertainment  Yesterday marked the 50th Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the third manned flight to the Moon and the first to land on Earth's closest celestial neighbor and only natural satellite. There were the usual commemorative segments on the morning and evening newscasts, and social media was littered with tributes to Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.  Fittingly, Imagine Entertainment and HBO Home Entertainment chose July 16, 2019 as the "drop date" for the long-awaited Blu-ray disc (BD) set of From the Earth to the Moon, a 12-part docudrama about mankind's greatest adventure: Project Apollo.  Produced by Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer, From the Earth to the Moon premiered on HBO in the spring of 1998, seven months before the 30th Anniversary of Apollo 8's historic "first...

On Tuesday, July 16, the 50th Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 - the mission to land two astronauts on the Moon by the end of the 1960s - HBO Home Entertainment and Imagine Entertainment will release the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon on Blu-ray for the first time. Produced by Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer as a complement to Howard's 1995 film Apollo 13, this 12-part miniseries is a docudrama that chronicles the American effort to beat the Soviet Union in a Cold War-era Space Race by, as President John F. Kennedy said in a May 1961 speech, a concerted effort ""to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Based in part on Andrew Chaikin's non-fiction book A Man on the Moon, the miniseries was originally aired between April 5 and May 10, 1998. Its focus was on Project Apollo, although Part One - Can We Do This? - also covered part of Project Mercury and ...

The Signature Edition reissue 5-DVD box set. © 1998, 2005 Home Box Office and Imagine Entertainment. President John F. Kennedy: I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this time period will be more impressive to Mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space. And none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. On April 5, 1998, HBO broadcast "Can We Do This?" — the first episode of From the Earth to the Moon, a 12-part miniseries about Project Apollo, the U.S. manned space program tasked to fulfill President John F. Kennedy's challenge of placing "a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" before 1970. Based mostly on Andrew Chaikin's 1994 book A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts , From the Earth to the Moon follows the professional and person...