Credited cast: | |||
Buzz Aldrin | ... | Self | |
Neil Armstrong | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Stephen Armstrong | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Viola Armstrong | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Alan Bean | ... | Self |
Eugene Cernan | ... | Self | |
Michael Collins | ... | Self | |
Charles Duke | ... | Self (as Charlie Duke) | |
John F. Kennedy | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
Jim Lovell | ... | Self (as James Lovell) | |
Edgar D. Mitchell | ... | Self (as Edgar Mitchell) | |
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Garry Moore | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Richard Nixon | ... | Self / US President (archive footage) (as Richard M. Nixon) | |
Harrison Schmitt | ... | Self | |
Dave Scott | ... | Self (as David Scott) |
In the 1960s, US President John F Kennedy proposed landing a man on the moon before the decade was finished. This film has interviews with most of the surviving astronauts of the Apollo program who were making ready to make that great voyage with an army of experts determined to make the endeavor possible. Through training, tragedy and triumph, we follow the greatest moments of one of Humanity's great achievements. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Bravo to everyone involved in this great film. I just caught it at the 16th Philadelphia Film Festival. Director David Sington answered questions eloquently and patiently as I sat stunned after the film. Having read every Apollo astronaut biography I know to exist I didn't think I'd learn much in the way of facts from the movie, but it turns out there were a couple of things. It is great to see these men who gave so much to my generation talking about the experience decades later. They are wiser and gentler people than when they flew the spacecraft. Sington stated that he wanted to show the events from the point of view of the astronauts. He succeeds, and the experience is moving and meaningful to everyone who looked out from this world in a state of wonder. The Apollo program remains something similar to Leonardo's sketch of a helicopter--an idea ahead of its time technologically, politically and economically, here at the very start of humanity's adventure in the Universe, only a few thousand years after we started using agriculture and so on. When future generations wonder what was going on during the Apollo decade I think this movie is one of the things they'll be looking at.