Summaries

The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.

In the 1960s, US President John F Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon before the decade was finished. This film has interviews with most of the surviving astronauts of the Apollo program who were making ready to make that great voyage with an army of experts determined to make the endeavor possible. Through training, tragedy and triumph, we follow the greatest moments of one of Humanity's great achievements.—Kenneth Chisholm ([email protected])

Details

Keywords
  • moon landing
  • astronomical object in title
  • history documentary
  • science and technology documentary
  • apollo mission
Genres
  • History
  • Documentary
Release date Nov 1, 2007
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG
Countries of origin United States United Kingdom
Language English Japanese French
Production companies FilmFour Passion Pictures Discovery Films

Box office

Budget $2000000
Gross US & Canada $1134358
Opening weekend US & Canada $38281
Gross worldwide $2161369

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 40m
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first, and very possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.

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