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Apollo 13: Survival

Directed by British filmmaker Peter Middleton (Notes on Blindness), and co-produced by the UK’s Hugh Davies and Clive Patterson, this documentary is both gripping and innovative. Scored by British composer James Spinney, the film intersperses never-seen-before archive and home video footage with insightful interviews and dramatic reconstructions. Co-produced by Fee Fie Foe Films and Suffolk-based Insight Films.

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On the night of thirteenth April 1970, just nine months after Neil Armstrong's historic moon landing, NASA faced catastrophe after an explosion rocked the Apollo 13 spacecraft, leaving three astronauts stranded between earth and the moon. With finite oxygen and a diminishing power supply, an urgent rescue mission unfolded over the following days, broadcast in real-time to people all over the globe.