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Apollo 13

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Apollo 13 Official Trailer #1 - Tom Hanks Movie (1995) HD

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Apollo 13 (1995) - Go for Launch Scene (3/11) | Movieclips

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Apollo 13 | Re-Entry and Splashdown

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Tom Hanks and Ron Howard on Making Apollo 13 | Screen Bites

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Kevin Bacon Reflects On Filming 'Apollo 13'

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr., and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.
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