If you want a powerful, masterful rendition of the ill-fated space mission, watch Apollo 13. But the documentary more than half a century after the mission, and two decades after the feature film, is not a bad depiction. Being a documentary, it’s much more factual, with never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with key people in and out of the mission control center, but Apollo 13: Survival still holds the tension, the high stakes, and the emotional pull through its excellent editing. Older viewers that already watched the Tom Hanks drama would likely not find anything new in this documentary, but Apollo 13: Survival would be a decent, compelling documentary to those who have never heard of the spacecraft.

The documentary is a bit more focused on the commander’s family, but the perspective is fairly balanced.