From the Earth to the Moon: Season 1, Episode 4

1968 (12 Apr. 1998)

TV Episode  -   -  Action | Drama | History
7.6
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 7.6/10 from 72 users  
Reviews: write review

During the turbulent year of 1968 Susan Borman looks with dread on her husband's impending mission to orbit the moon.

Director:

Writers:

(book),
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 1735 titles created 26 Nov 2011
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: 1968 (12 Apr 1998)

1968 (12 Apr 1998) on IMDb 7.6/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of From the Earth to the Moon.
« Previous Episode | 4 of  12 Episodes | Next Episode »
Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Thirteen Days (2000)
Drama | History | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

A dramatization of President Kennedy's administration's struggle to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962.

Director: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Shawn Driscoll, Kevin Costner, Drake Cook
Drama | History | Mystery
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Crimson Tide (1995)
Action | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.

Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven
Action | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.

Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Action | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer
Munich (2005)
Drama | History | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds
Action | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo
Action | Drama | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart the plans of a terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.

Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Stars: Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt, Morgan Freeman
Air Force One (1997)
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he (an ex-soldier) works from hiding to defeat them.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close
Drama | History | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5/10 X  

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

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
Adventure | Drama | History
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  

Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Director: John Sturges
Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
Defiance I (2008)
Action | Drama | History
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

Director: Edward Zwick
Stars: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell
Edit

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
...
Himself - Host
Brandon Ambrose ...
Edwin Borman
...
...
...
...
CIA #2
...
Keith Dickerson ...
Engineer
...
NASA Rep.
...
Tracy Frenkel ...
Rocco Petrone
David Drew Gallagher ...
RETRO
Andrew Heller ...
CIA #1
Jim Howard ...
William Schneider
...
CAPCOM
Edit

Storyline

During the turbulent year of 1968 Susan Borman looks with dread on her husband's impending mission to orbit the moon.

Add Full Plot | Add Synopsis

Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

12 April 1998 (USA)  »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bormans's wife is portrayed by Tom Hanks' real-life wife, Rita Wilson. See more »

Goofs

Apollo 8's Translunar Injection (TLI) burn is shown with the spacecraft pointed at the moon. TLI is always performed parallel to the surface on the opposite side of the earth from the moon. See more »

Soundtracks

"Song of the Plains"
Written by M. Laden Franko
Courtesy of Associated Production Music
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Apollo 12 Nudity mr-aj-625-737034
Favorite/Best episode vincent_romeijn
Good Books jah1958
too much music! timisme
Nitpick -- Episode: Galileo Was Right jah1958
How many Apollo astronauts have you met? flashbuck
Discuss 1968 (1998) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?