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In the Shadow of the Moon

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In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' crewed missions to the Moon. After premiering at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award, it was given a limited release in the United States on 7 September 2007, and in Canada on 19 October. Although the film shares its name with a book by space historians Colin Burgess and Francis French that was also released in 2007, and both include many original interviews with Apollo lunar astronauts, neither work is a source of, or a tie-in to, the other. Synopsis The film tells the story of the crewed missions to the Moon undertaken by NASA in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of the Apollo program, with particular focus given to Apollo 11. The ten Apollo astronauts interviewed by the filmmakers for the film tell their story in their own words, supplemented by footage shot by the astronauts during the missions, archival footage and news reports about the Apollo program by the likes of Walter Cronkite and Jules Bergman, and the occasional use of onscreen text. Participants Ten of the twenty-four men who reached the vicinity of the Moon as part of the Apollo program were interviewed for the film. Those ten represent every crewed Apollo flight, with the exception of Apollo 7 (which was an Earth-orbit mission), and include eight of the twelve men who set foot on the lunar surface. Some astronauts had already passed away by the time the film was made, and Neil Armstrong chose not to participate in the film. The other two astronauts featured in the film, Jim Lovell and Michael Collins, orbited the Moon, but did not land on it. The interviewees are: Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot Apollo 12: Alan Bean, Lunar Module Pilot Apollo 13: Jim Lovell, Commander (also Apollo 8 CMP) Apollo 14: Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot Apollo 15: David Scott, Commander (also Apollo 9 CMP) Apollo 16: John Young, Commander (also Apollo 10 CMP) Charles Duke, Lunar Module Pilot (also Apollo 11 CapCom) Apollo 17: Eugene Cernan, Commander (also Apollo 10 LMP) Harrison Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot

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In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' crewed missions to the Moon. After premiering at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award, it was given a limited release in the United States on 7 September 2007, and in Canada on 19 October. Although the film shares its name with a book by space historians Colin Burgess and Francis French that was also released in 2007, and both include many original interviews with Apollo lunar astronauts, neither work is a source of, or a tie-in to, the other. Synopsis The film tells the story of the crewed missions to the Moon undertaken by NASA in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of the Apollo program, with particular focus given to Apollo 11. The ten Apollo astronauts interviewed by the filmmakers for the film tell their story in their own words, supplemented by footage shot by the astronauts during the missions, archival footage and news reports about the Apollo program by the likes of Walter Cronkite and Jules Bergman, and the occasional use of onscreen text. Participants Ten of the twenty-four men who reached the vicinity of the Moon as part of the Apollo program were interviewed for the film. Those ten represent every crewed Apollo flight, with the exception of Apollo 7 (which was an Earth-orbit mission), and include eight of the twelve men who set foot on the lunar surface. Some astronauts had already passed away by the time the film was made, and Neil Armstrong chose not to participate in the film. The other two astronauts featured in the film, Jim Lovell and Michael Collins, orbited the Moon, but did not land on it. The interviewees are: Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot Apollo 12: Alan Bean, Lunar Module Pilot Apollo 13: Jim Lovell, Commander (also Apollo 8 CMP) Apollo 14: Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot Apollo 15: David Scott, Commander (also Apollo 9 CMP) Apollo 16: John Young, Commander (also Apollo 10 CMP) Charles Duke, Lunar Module Pilot (also Apollo 11 CapCom) Apollo 17: Eugene Cernan, Commander (also Apollo 10 LMP) Harrison Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot

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