The Planets (1999)

I remember watching this as a kid and I loved the music! And the graphics (even if they’re from the late 90’s) look good for the series.

Dated but still awesome.

This is one of the best space documentaries out there. But for some reason it is now narrated by someone different, which really takes away from the experience for those of us who watched it when it came out!

It was a chance, but welcomed, find among the vast Apple commerce repository. This series covers many things in depth, such as the short history of our own solar system and each planet and their respective moons. Being an American, I can appreciate things we did but this series also covers the Soviet side of the space race. It is a refresing point of view on a subject that Americans hear only highlights from. I have to say that a few of the later episodes seem to be missing subtitles altogether from long portions of Russian dialogue and the point does labor to get across as the video footage doesn't seem to be corollary to the talking. Beyond that, it is a fantastic documentary which does so much right that the few foibles therein are forgiven.

Incredible, no discussion of landings on Mars. As far as this show is concerned, that capability doesn't exist.