Video: “In the Shadow of the Moon”

Here is the complete video of the award winning 2007 documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, directed by David Sington and Christopher Riley. The film

follows the manned missions to the Moon made by the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The documentary reviews both the footage and media available to the public at the time of the missions, as well as NASAfilms and materials which had not been opened in over 30 years. All of this has been sourced and remastered in HD by the stock footage company Footagevault. Augmenting the archival audio and video are contemporary interviews with some survivingApollo era astronauts, including Al BeanMichael CollinsBuzz AldrinJohn YoungDavid ScottCharlie DukeEugene Cernanand Harrison Schmitt. The former astronauts have the only speaking roles in the movie, although occasional supplementary information is presented on screen with text and archival television footage presents the words of journalists such as Jules Bergman and Walter CronkiteNeil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, declined to participate, the only surviving moon walker at the time to do so.

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 tie-in.