In the Shadow of the Moon (film)
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Promotional film poster
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| Directed by |
David Sington Christopher Riley |
| Produced by | Duncan Copp Christopher Riley Sarah Kinsella John Battsek Julie Goldman |
| Music by | Philip Sheppard |
| Cinematography | Clive North |
| Edited by | David Fairhead |
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DOX Productions/Passion Pictures/Discovery Films
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| Distributed by | Vertigo Films |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2007 British documentary film about the United States' manned missions to the Moon. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. In March 2008, it was the first film to win the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Film Presentation. It was given a limited release in the United States on 7 September 2007, and in Canada on 19 October 2007. It was released on DVD in the United States on 22 February 2008, and 31 March 2008, in the United Kingdom. It is also notable for giving Gareth Edwards (who would go on to direct Godzilla) an early credit in visual effects.
In the Shadow of the Moon 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 NASA films 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 surviving Apollo era astronauts, including Al Bean, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, John Young, David Scott, Charlie Duke, Eugene Cernan and 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 Cronkite. The only surviving moon walker at the time not to participate was Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon.
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