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Rocketmen (2009)

Rocketmen poster
Directed by
Richard Dale
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the Apollo space program. It focuses on the astronauts and the scientific achievement of landing on the moon.

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What happens

Rocketmen is a 2009 documentary directed and written by Richard Dale. The film is narrated by Michael J. Reynolds. This was BBC Worldwide's first science film release and it grossed $1.2 million from being shown theatrically on 104 screens in Japan in 2009 (performing at number 16 nationally on its opening weekend), in addition to subsequent release on various international television outlets and on Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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