2007 · documentary · history · space
In the Shadow of the Moon
Directed by David Sington1h 49m2007
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.
Our read: In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) reads as a cosy, measured, grounded documentary · history · space entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, measured, gentle documentary / history, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
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