American Experience (TV Series) The Satellite Sky (1990) User Reviews

The space race observed through and colored by the cold war atmosphere and pop culture of the '60s -- but in the bizarro universe!

[jamesdlee · 10/10 · 25 February 1999]

From the moment the first lilting notes of Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk" start to drown out the explosions of a failed rocket launch, the viewer becomes aware that this is not your everyday (every year?) paean to the heroes of our space program. Combining an amazing array of archived documentary, "official," and B-movie footage -- Soviet as well as American -- Stone demonstrates that the race to the moon may only have been a sideline of the greatest propaganda battle waged during the cold war. Brims with irony, humor, and an absolutely amazing amount of information.

Amazing

[nak15 · 10/10 · 13 February 2002]

This might be the greatest film I have ever seen. Certainly the best documentary ever. The film feels as if David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick and Homer Simpson got together to explain the The Cold War and The Space Race and ended up creating a picture of the futility of existence. Truly Amazing.