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Chasing the Moon (2019) #1205
DOCUMENTARY
Special
6x50 min. BBC. The story of the race to the Moon, from the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to Apollo 11, and the first man to set foot on the Moon, in 1969. 1/6 A Place Beyond the Sky (Part One). America's race to the moon begins with Soviet Russia's launch of Sputnik 1. 2/6 A Place Beyond the Sky (Part Two). How America's space exploration technology caught up with the Soviet Union's. 3/6 Earthrise (Part One). A training exercise ends in tragedy risking the future of America's entire space programme. 4/6 Earthrise (Part Two). Within two years of the Apollo 1 tragedy, America sent a manned light to the moon. 5/6 Magnificent Desolation (Part One). The space race takes a new twist as US astronauts compete to be the first man on the moon. 6/6 Magnificent Desolation (Part Two). The world gathers around its television sets to watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. |
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First Man (2018) #1387
FILM
Main
First Man: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969 |
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Realive (2016) #1121
FILM
Main
Directed by Mateo Gil. With Tom Hughes, Charlotte Le Bon, Oona Chaplin, Barry Ward. Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected. |
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Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime: Europe (2013) #753
DOCUMENTARY
Main
1 hour. BBC. Celebrating a remarkable fifty years on television, TV legend and undisputed travel king Alan Whicker sets off round the world on a journey reflecting his incredibly varied life and career. In this first episode, Whicker revisits Venice, a city of massive significance and very close to his heart, to retrace his steps from war to peace, from soldier to Fleet Street journalist, and then his subsequent move into the fledgling world of television. Included in the films revisited in this episode are Whicker's earliest surviving TV appearance, in-depth profiles of John Paul Getty and Baroness Fiona Thyssen, and a legendary encounter with millionaire Yorkshireman and eccentric Percy Shaw - the man who invented cats' eyes. Finally, the remarkable story of what happened when Whicker became the first man to enter a closed and silent order of nuns - and got them to talk to him. |