In the Shadow of the Moon

This is a wonderful documentary using the actual men that did it!
I defy any conspiracy theorist, who doesn't believe the lunar landings happened, to watch this, and still say that it didn't happen.
Great footage, music, interviews. A must have for a Space buff.

Very affecting. A meditation, via a great mix of cinematography and candid narration, on the nature of heroism. A challenge for more.

In the Shadow of the Moon is a fantastic in depth view into the astronauts of the Apollo Program. Very candid interviews and some rare and unusual footage.

In the Shadow of the Moon
is a great movie...is not a documentary...it will make you proud of those thousands and thousands of people that achieved the kennedy`s goal. To put a man on the moon.

In the shadow of the moon is an accomplishment in that it holds one's attention even if one knows the outcome of the story. This always struck me as one of the great attributes of Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" in that we all knew what happened, to varying degrees of specificiality, and yet it was still dramatic and compelling. "In The Shadow of the Moon" accomplishes much the same in more of a documentary way. The film is compelling and captivating and not just because of the story that is and was the Apollo program. A film of this sorts runs the huge risk of being cheesy and over stated. It also runs the risk of telling nothing new other than the facts, most of which those who would see the film would know. Instead "In the Shadow" tells the basic story for those who do not know the history of Apollo, and yet gives Apollophiles something satisfying. For me it was the perspective that comes with distance in time. We are now almost 40 years since "we" went to the moon, and the power the experience had for those who went, magnifying the memories for those of us who watched and remember, speaks of the greatness of the endeavor. All of the astronauts were changed for their going. I remember the crew of Apollo 12, if my memory is correct, speaking about when one "returned from the moon," not physically but emotionally, as being the time when one didnt think about the experience. Judging from "In the Shadow," most or all of the astronauts never fully returned. Even as they traveled, explored, and brought back rocks and soil, they seemed to leave a part of themselves behind. "In the Shadow" opens the window into how the men were changed in the accomplishing of this great feat and in so doing, tells how humanity was changed now that we live in a time when humanity went to the moon.