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Film · 2019

Apollo 11

Directed by Todd Douglas Miller · starring Walter Cronkite

  • 1 h 33 min
  • U
  • Documentary · History
  • USA
  • Released in the UK 27 June 2019
  • 6.9 AverageMovieNCo
  • 6.3 Users3 votes
  • 7.4 Critics5 reviews
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Synopsis

Todd Douglas Miller directs 'Apollo 11', a critically-acclaimed documentary following the first spaceflight to land humans on the moon. Comprised largely snippets of 11,000 hours worth of never-before-seen NASA footage in 65-mm. and 70-mm. format from the year of the mission, 1969, 'Apollo 11' offers a unique perspective on the world-famous moon landings.

'Apollo 11' uses the footage to shed a light not just on the bravery of its three astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins; it also examines the support offered from the ground during the hugely daring operation as well as media that captures the reactions of the public to the mission. The documentary retains news and radio footage from Walter Cronkite at the time and repurposes it as a voiceover to allow the audience to experience the news as it was given in the 1960s, an effect sustained by telling the entire story of the moon landing in the present tense. The documentary condenses its several hours of footage to provide a vision of the 9 days surrounding the mission with an image quality previously unseen in relation to the landings.

'Apollo 11' is directed by Todd Douglas Miller. Amongst Miller's other documental works are 'Dinosaur 13', 'Scaring the Fish' and 'Gahanna Bill'.

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Runtime
93 min1 hour and 33 minutes
Box office
£1.1min UK
Rating
UUniversal
How long is Apollo 11?
1 hour and 33 minutes (93 minutes).
When was Apollo 11 released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 27 June 2019.
Who directed Apollo 11?
Todd Douglas Miller.
Where can I watch Apollo 11?
In the UK you can watch it on rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
How much did Apollo 11 make?
It took £1.1 million in UK.
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Cast

Full cast (3)
Director
Todd Douglas Miller
Producers
Todd Douglas Miller

Videos and trailers

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'Apollo 11' Trailer 1:524 June 2019

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Reviews

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6.3 3 votes

What the critics say average 7.4 from 5

  • 10 The GuardianAdrian Horton While there are legitimate criticisms of America's space program, it's hard to argue with a film that defers so humbly to the primary source material. Read
  • 9.0 Entertainment WeeklyChris Nashawaty The NASA mission at the heart of the must-see documentary Apollo 11 reminds you what it feels to be truly awestruck. Read
  • 8.0 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich If we can see the past this clearly, perhaps that's reason enough to hope for a better perspective of the future. Read

Box office

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  • UK £1.1m

Awards

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Soundtrack

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  1. Mother CountryJohn Stewart

Trivia

  • Music of that time

    All the instruments used for the soundtrack were available in 1969.

  • Recordings by the astronauts

    Several of the recordings captured by the astronauts during the mission are featured in this documentary. These recordings by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins earned them honorary memberships in the American Society of Cinematographers.

  • Mission rules

    In an interview in the March 8, 2019 New York Times, documentary filmmaker Todd Douglas Miller stated that his crew had their own mission rules regarding the footage used in the film: ""We did have kind of our own mission rules. We said, if it didn't happen on that day at that specific time, we're not using it."
    He did say that he did break this rule on several occasions, using shots from Apollo 8's propulsive push rather than Apollo 11's but that he would document where he used different clips from other launches.

  • Improved material

    The team that put together this documentary used the work that Ben Feist did when he increased the quality of 11,000 hours of digitized audio recordings of taken during the Apollo 11 launch, according to an article in the New York Times on March 8, 2019. Feist also detailed the recordings by minute and second, making it easier for the documentary team to sync up audio and video sequences.

  • Sundace Festival

    The film premiered in Sundace Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing

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