I'll give David Bradley and his film 12 to the Moon credit where credit is due: in the same year that African-Americans were organizing sit-ins as part of the Civil Rights Movement, here is a film with a multicultural cast (including black and Asian crew-members) that implies that mankind can only truly advance as a species once we set aside our differences and work together. Of course, most of the crew-members die, the "ethnic" characters are almost always stereotypes, and the film's approach to science would make a Young Earth Creationist blush. Upon landing on the Moon during an international space expedition, they find a partially breathable atmosphere, a massive deposit of gold, and signs of an advanced civilization living beneath the Moon's surface. These denizens of the Moon decide that humanity is a threat, so they flash-freeze all of North America. So the survivors of the space-flight, which at this point are surprisingly sparse, must somehow unfreeze the continent while proving their worth as a species to the inhabitants of the Moon. 12 to the Moon is a bizarre sci-fi film, even for its era. But, hey, it gets points for good intentions. I think...
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