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> "The End of All Things" shows that ROTK nearly didn't make it to theaters in time. Jackson and his team were cutting, editing, scoring and even shooting new footage just weeks before the scheduled release date, and all the last-second tweaks took the production right down to the wire. You'll feel the tension, the raw nerves and the exhaustion of the crew as they literally worked round the clock in the final days. With all the thousands of details that had to be wrapped up as the deadline approached, it's a wonder that somebody, somewhere didn't get sloppy and make a mistake, but in the end, Jackson and Co. delivered a film, just in the nick of time, that was so well done, it went on to sweep the Academy Awards.

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