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In the Shadow of the Moon (2006)

Documentary | 109 minutes
3,54 93 votes

Genre: Documentary / History

Duration: 109 minuten

Alternative title: Walking on the Moon

Country: United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: David Sington

Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean and Eugene Cernan

IMDb score: 8,0 (7.092)

Releasedate: 19 January 2007

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In the Shadow of the Moon plot

This documentary shows the daring and the dangerous, the pride and passion of space travel. Between 1968 and 1972, the world breathlessly awaits every American mission to the moon. But 12 men have set foot on the moon and these men have their say, in archive footage and new interviews.

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wendyvortex

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When did we go to Mars again?

Because those moon landings were beautiful before and too soon after my birth.

Okay, I'll all care that those space adventures were initiated thanks to the cold war.

But let's imitate Jules Verne in real life!!! Fantastic achievement to go to the Moon and come back again.

So Mars would like to stay with my life and well-being for a while.

Not a lot of news in this documentary, but a lot of spectacular images of the Moon and told by a few astronauts who have been there or just missed it (Apollo 13) and it is also told what they thought and how they felt.

Just not a new angle because a book has already been published with conversations with the Moon visitors.

But those great images from space and on the Moon... they remain fantastic!

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wihu61

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One of the best documentaries I've seen on this subject. Let the astronauts speak for themselves, with plenty of room for the emotions that played during the journey to and the stay on the, in fact, very hostile celestial body.

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blurp194

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There is an enormous amount of material available about the moon landings and the Apollo program.

This documentary takes a very standard approach - carefully sourced images interspersed with plenty of room for talking heads. Fortunately, these are still the (then) living Apollo astronauts, but still, their story does not immediately add much, and the images do not really do that much either. We've all seen them before, and they've gotten better in the meantime. For example, I find Apollo 11 (2019) much stronger as a documentary, and The Last Man on the Moon (2014) much more substantive in the personal aspect. And if you want to get lost in all the possible details of how it really worked, there's a few hundred more hours of material on CuriousMarc's youtube channel.

Does this film add something to that, perhaps it's not a fair question for a film that appeared more than ten years before the other titles I mention. But if you look at it now, that comparison is appropriate, and it really comes out as the weakest for me - and largely because of the way of telling, which is very traditional and safe.

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