Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? (TV 2001)

Were the Apollo moon landings faked?

Director:

John Moffet

Writers:

John Moffet, Craig Titley,

Stars:

Mitch Pileggi, Thomas Ronald Baron, Paul Fjeld

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Mitch Pileggi	...	Narrator (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Thomas Ronald Baron	...	Himself (archive footage)
Paul Fjeld	...	Himself
Betty Grissom	...	Herself
Scott Grissom	...	Himself
Bill Kaysing	...	Himself
Paul Lazarus III	...	Himself
Jan Lundberg	...	Himself
Howard McCurdy	...	Himself (as Howard McCurdy Ph.D.)
Brian O'Leary	...	Himself
David S. Percy	...	Himself
Geoffrey Reeves	...	Himself (as Dr. Geoffrey Reeves)
Ralph René	...	Himself
Julian Scheer	...	Himself
Bart Sibrel	...	Himself

Storyline

Skeptics analyze the discrepancies and inconsistencies in the evidence that men landed on the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their conclusion: NASA faked the moon landings! Evidence of deception includes: the physical problems inherent in rocket control; the lack of a blast crater under the LM descent engine; the lack of stars in the lunar sky; discrepancies and similarities in the shadows and backgrounds of moon photos; flag waving on an airless moon; and the presence of deadly radiation in interplanetary space. The skeptics contend that astronauts have never flown beyond the Van Allen radiation belt.

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Plot Keywords:

moon | moon landing | space | deception | space program | 

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 February 2001 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Nash Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in FOX 25th Anniversary Special (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Walking On The Moon"
(uncredited)
Performed by The Police

User Reviews

FOX' fun for the feeble-minded

I remember an interview I read with a FOX executive after the ill-fated "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?" debacle. He said that from now on FOX would strive to provide better quality specials. And this is what they came up with.

This program not only scrapes the bottom of the barrel, it starts digging underneath. Despite announcing that viewers are encouraged to "decide for themselves" about whether or not we went to the moon after watching this video, the flick is clearly biased on the side of the moon-hoax believers.

Every bit of "evidence" presented by the prosecution could have been easily shot down by NASA (or anybody with half a brain). For example, one of the big questions is "Why were there no stars in the photographs", implying that NASA faked the photos and forgot to put stars in the black sky. As anybody who's ever used a camera could figure out, stars are a faint light source, and when you're photographing in a bright light (you don't get any brighter than the unfiltered sun on the moon), you have to close up the aperture, so any faint light source is not going to appear.

THAT's why there are no stars in the photos. But the producers didn't allow anybody to say that. So it gave the impression that NASA couldn't answer the question. And NASA is only allowed to counter a couple of the many questions that are raised.

Add to these sorts of tricks some flashy graphics and dramatic, "I Know What You Did" music, and you have a biased, idiotic schlockumentary designed to cater to people with an large abundance of arrogance and a severe absence of critical thinking skills.

I don't know if the dolts who put this together actually believe it, but whether or not they do, they should be ashamed. It just shows that people will do anything, including making fools of themselves, just for money. Not to mention slamming the honor of those who risked (and gave) their lives for their country to go to the moon.