In the Shadow of the Moon (film)

In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States manned missions to the Moon. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. In March 2008, it was the first film to win the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Film Presentation. It was given a limited release in the United States on September 7, 2007, and in Canada on October 19, 2007. It was released on DVD in the United States on February 22, 2008, and March 31, 2008, in the United Kingdom. It is also notable for giving Gareth Edwards who would go on to direct Godzilla an early credit in visual effects.

The documentary shares its name with a book by space historians Colin Burgess and Francis French, and both include many original interviews with Apollo lunar astronauts. The documentary offers a view of the Apollo program that is complementary to the book and is neither a source nor a tiein.Ten former astronauts appear in In the Shadow of the Moon. During the Apollo Program, twentyfour men reached the vicinity of the Moon. Of the twelve who actually set foot on the lunar surface, eight appear on camera Neil Armstrong did not participate, while Pete Conrad, James Irwin and Alan Shepard had died. Two other astronauts who are featured in In the Shadow of the Moon orbited or looped around the Moon without landing Jim Lovell and Michael Collins. All manned Apollo flights with the exception of Apollo 7, which was an earthorbit mission, were represented in the film. The film is presented by Ron Howard, but there is no narration in the film. ........

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