Apollo 13

1995. Based on the real events of one of the most eventful missions in space history, this is an adventure in the cold hard vacuum of space that has no equal for tension and human drama. It's 1971, NASA plans yet another lunar mission, after Apollos 11 and 12, but interest has wained. TV audiences, after joining together in one of man's most defining moments in 1969, now see space travel as ho hum. But that is about to change.

Astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Frad Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) are headed for the moon, but a slight fault leads to an explosion that turns exploration into an epic test for survival, watched by millions across the globe. While Lovell, Haise, and Swigert try to survive in space, NASA boffins try to figure out a way to get the astronauts home safely with the limited equipment on board. It's a race against time, and impossible odds.

Nominated for nine Oscars and winning two (for sound and editing) this is one of the great human dramas, well told by director Ron Howard. Don't miss it.