Apollo 11: 5 Films You Need To See On Its 50th Anniversary

5. The Saturn V Story

First up comes a documentary that isn’t about the famous men who made the trip to the Moon, but about the monumental machine that took them there. This British documentary, titled The Saturn V Story, was released in 2014 and allows the audience to learn about the main aspects surrounding the most powerful rocket ever flown, the Saturn V.

To do so, The Saturn V Story covers a fair amount of details about the rocket's construction, its role in the conquest of space and its subsequent legacy. The film explains the origin of space rockets after World War II, the birth of NASA and the beginning of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Saturn V Story is full of many technical details about the rocket's design, showing from early, unviable concepts of the vehicle to the repeated failures that real models presented. A lot of emphasis is put on the fact that taking humans to the Moon required the effort of multiple companies and thousands of scientists over several decades.

The documentary features a considerable amount of footage from the different space missions of the 1960s, in addition to interviews with scholars of the subject. The Saturn V Story is definitely worth seeing, as it prepares you to better understand the relevance that the mighty Saturn V will have in the movies of the following points.