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Netflix has an expansive array of recent documentaries set to launch on the service all through 2024, and beneath, we will verify two new documentary characteristic tasks.
The documentaries weren’t included within the preliminary 2024 film and documentary lineup revealed on February 1st, 2024, however have been included since. These are two of 4 late additions to Netflix’s 2024 film lineup. The others are Secrets of the Neanderthals, a historic doc narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart, and Vampires of Gem City, directed by Joshua Rofé.
Let’s run via the 2 new docs now:
Apollo 13: Survival
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A narrative well-told by different documentaries and even characteristic movies earlier than will likely be getting retold by Netflix in 2024. It comes from director Peter Middleton, maybe greatest identified for his 2021 documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin, launched in 2021.
Here’s the official logline for the brand new doc, which has a runtime of 96 minutes:
“Just nine months after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, NASA faced its greatest crisis – three astronauts stranded halfway to the moon on a spacecraft that had suffered a catastrophic explosion.”
INSIGHT FILMS produces the doc in affiliation with FEE FIE FOE. It’s produced by Clive Paterson and Hugh Davies and described as “a uniquely cinematic re-telling of one of the great survival stories in human history.”
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
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Coming from the identical group behind Netflix’s Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (launched in October 2020) comes a brand new archeology documentary that explores “Emperor Qin’s extraordinary tomb in China.”
Documentary director James Tovell will return from Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb to direct this entry with different credit, together with I Am Killer, Earth, and Cradle to Grave.
Lion TV is behind the characteristic documentary, the identical group that labored on Netflix’s Alexander: The Making of a God, plus different docs and dramas, together with Saving Venice, Horrible Histories, and the Arctic From Above. Richard Bradley is an government producer on the documentary.
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