I'll try to keep this brief. As other reviews have mentioned, this doco misses the opportunity to tell the whole story of the Challenger disaster. You see two seperate but connected narratives here. The experiences of the family members is one story (although it mostly focusses on Christa McAuliffe) and the retell from the workers being the other. I didn't mind these two stories but there was too much focus on the families. It's not that the family members stories isn't important, it just drags on for too long. They needed to equal or portray more of the story of the workers and key decision makers. The four episodes as they stand could have been made into a single movie length doco but if they exposed more of the political and NASA side of things then this could have easily been four or more episodes. This doco did really well to get almost all of the key decision makers to share the justification of their decisions but only in short parts. Since the film makers went to all of this effort, why did they only use snippets of these very interesting individuals/interviews as I have many questions I want answers to (and even the families might still to this day also). By reading the Wikipedia page, I've learnt far more than this doco presented and that's sad and frustrating after spending almost three hours on this. It would have been so interesting to really explore the background decisions made for this flight. They did well with how they told the story of the meeting that took place the night before the flight; that is the type of doco that needed to contine throughout the four episodes. I could refer to more parts of the doco that needed improvement or were done well but I still recommend watching the doco and then do your own reading post viewing to answer the questions most viewers will still have.
Review of Challenger: The Final Flight
