How Is Apollo 13 Historically Accurate

Apollo 13 is an award winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Kevin bacon that was release in June 1995. As a historical movie, many people like to think that just because it’s based on a past event the movie is granted unquestioned accuracy. Well, Apollo 13 is actually very historically accurate in its events and the setting, both outside of Earth and on Earth, but it does have a few inaccuracies in portraying the characters but were put in to make the film more interesting than the actual Apollo mission of the early 70’s.

The crew of the Apollo 13 mission, both at central control and the lunar module, were depicted very differently than how they actually behaved. The way the actual people interacted with each other was much more intellectual

Ultimately, the 1995 movie comes fairly historically accurate in its displays of the events and the setting, but the film did include scenes of characters that were exaggerated in personality or arguments in order to establish a much more interesting story than what actually happened. Annotated Bibliography

Thesis: Apollo 13 is actually pretty historically accurate but had a few inaccuracies put in to actually make the movie interesting in its portrayal of the characters involved, the events that transpired, and the setting, both outside of Earth and on Earth, of the Apollo mission at the beginning of the 70’s.

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#1.Smithsonian Channel. https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/duct-tape-and-ingenuity-save-the-day/17208(Accessed February 14, 2018.)

A short documentary that shows how a single man was able to solve the problem with high CO2 levels in the lunar module instead of a team as shown in Apollo