Underplayed Gems

In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

In the Shadow of the Moon poster
Directed by
David Sington, Christopher Riley
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 113 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary tells the story of NASA's Apollo moon missions through interviews with the astronauts who flew them. The astronauts share their personal experiences and memories of traveling to the moon.

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What happens

In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' crewed missions to the Moon. After premiering at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award, it was given a limited release in the United States on 7 September 2007, and in Canada on 19 October. Although the film shares its name with a book by space historians Colin Burgess and Francis French that was also released in 2007, and both include many original interviews with Apollo lunar astronauts, neither work is a source of, or a tie-in to, the other. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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