Space Race

National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, photos and audio.

The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving...

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy working at a NASA warehouse has his own little...

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the...

In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for...

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong...

A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.

As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases...

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a raw and unrecorded group of rockers called the...