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From the Earth to the Moon

★ 8.5 15K votes 1998–1998 1 season · 12 episodes Ended HBO
Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 9/10Wonder & aweSpectacle and imagination that expand the world.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10AnthologyA new story or cast with every episode or season.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Nick SearcyLane SmithDavid AndrewsDaniel Hugh KellyStephen RootDavid Clyde Carr
Starring
Nick SearcyLane SmithDavid AndrewsDaniel Hugh KellyStephen RootDavid Clyde Carr
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"An anthology tribute to the unsung Apollo machinery"

A twelve-part chronicle of America's Apollo space program, produced by Tom Hanks in the afterglow of Apollo 13. Rather than following one crew straight through, each episode shifts focus: astronauts, engineers, flight controllers, journalists, even the wives left on the ground. The tone is earnest and detail-loving, prioritizing procedure and character over spectacle, though it delivers plenty of tense launch and landing sequences. It moves at a measured, almost documentary pace, and rewards patience with a genuine sense of scale and sacrifice behind the missions. Feels like a prestige history lesson with real emotional payoff.

Watch it for

the anthology structure that gives equal weight to engineers, wives, and press alongside the astronauts.

Maybe skip if

you want a single continuous story rather than a shifting, episode-by-episode focus.

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All Seasons

Season 11998
8.16K1210h 41m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Can We Do This?8.1
67358 min
2Apollo One8.5
62558 min
3We Have Cleared the Tower7.7
55257 min
419688.0
55653 min
5Spider8.7
61454 min
6Mare Tranquilitatis8.4
52254 min
7That's All There Is8.3
53947 min
8We Interrupt This Program7.1
50447 min
9For Miles and Miles7.8
45148 min
10Galileo Was Right8.4
50653 min
11The Original Wives Club7.4
47155 min
12Le voyage dans la lune8.0
43657 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Tom Hanks Self - Host, Jean-Luc Despont
Nick Searcy Deke Slayton
Lane Smith Emmett Seaborn
David Andrews Frank Borman
Daniel Hugh Kelly Gene Cernan
Stephen Root Chris Kraft
David Clyde Carr Gerry Griffin
Tim Daly Jim Lovell
Steve Hofvendahl Thomas Stafford
Conor O'Farrell James McDivitt

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