In the Shadow of the Moon

Buy This Item In the Shadow of the Moon by VELOCITY / THINKFILM  Available from Amazon  $14.99  on 9-23-2008     IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon. Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and 13), Dave Scott (Apollo 9 and 15), John Young (Apollo 10 and 16), Gene Cernan (Apollo 10 and 17), Mike Collins (Apollo 11), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), Charlie Duke (Apollo 16) and Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human. Reader Reviews This is the tagline for Ron Howard's latest look at the Apollo program -- and of all the various and sundry documentaries of what has been called NASA's Golden Age (I have 'em all), this is head and shoulders above the rest. The astronauts themselves tell the story in their own words, and there's no CGI or special effects -- it's all genuine NASA footage. The story is by turns moving, poignant, thrilling, and (with the Apollo 1 fire) tragic, and it will have you on the edge of your chair for two full hours. The stories and the images are backed up by one of the most wonderful music tracks I've ever heard; you'll definitely want to have the very best audiovisual system you can muster to play this on. It is simply magnificent.

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