Powerfully put together NASA documentary highlights Apollo 11's historic run amongst other aged adventurers often stirring recollections.

Undoubtedly this is some of the finest public extraterrestrial footage ever married into film, and for that alone this noble salute to a bygone America and the heroes that inhabited it is a must see. Taking a trip to the moon with these brave astronauts has never been captured as intimately, helping viewers begin to feel what it must be like to be looking down from space like never before.

Combined with excellent musical scoring, David Sington's emotional remembrance and vicarious lift-offs belongs in many, many star watcher's collections.

In 1961, 20 days after Yuri Gargarin orbits the Earth, US President John F Kennedy commits the country in a speech in front of congress to go to the moon and back by the end of the decade. The American program is in trouble and falling behind to the Soviets. Then the Apollo program has a horrifying accident in 1967. They persevered until the eventual triumphant landing before the decade ends.

This has a lot of talking head of people involved in the program. It is informative and compelling. It's good to see this pull together this bit of history from the 60s and 70s. It's got nice inside footage and the iconic outer space footage. The launch footage is incredible. It's a fine overall documentary of this program.

"In the Shadow of the Moon" is about the best made film I have ever seen about the American space program. It specifically focuses on the Apollo moon missions and is a quality project from start to finish. The stock footage they use is crystal clear, the music AMAZING and the interviews with the ex-astronauts really exciting to watch and entertaining. While they were not able to get all the men who went to the moon to participate (Neil Armstrong, for example, was notoriously shy about being in the limelight and only ten of the men participated...most but not all),with what they had they created a masterful film...not just for history nuts (like me) but for anyone who watches the picture. Well worth your time and a truly admirable job by the filmmakers.