This quirky Australian comedy takes a very different approach to the moon landings, telling the true story of the New South Wales community of sheep farmers that housed one of the world’s largest radio telescope dishes.Īs NASA prepares for Apollo 11, the crew allow their telescope’s dish to be used as a backup receiver for the television transmission from the moon, and a change in the mission’s schedule means the Australian dish will have to pick up the vital broadcast. The Dish (Photo: Icon Entertainment International) One reviewer cheekily called it “the most expensive film ever made,” in reference to the many billions of dollars that went into the moon landing programme, and the film’s footage was mined extensively by Ron Howard for Apollo 13.
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For All Mankind (Photo: Apollo Associates)Īnother archive footage documentary, 1989’s For All Mankind does feature narration (unlike Apollo 11 above), all taken from recordings of the voices and words of the astronauts themselves.
Scheduled to land on the lunar surface, the trip was marred with technical errors, and the film follows the three-man crew’s attempts to get back to terra firma in one piece.Ī stressful watch at times, but no less essential. Ron Howard’s extraordinary space-based disaster film tells the true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission. It’s getting rave reviews all round, so make an effort to track it down at your local cinema. This recently released documentary is the latest to make use of archive footage (including never-before-seen large-format film footage) for an intimate account of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments, with zero narration, interviews or modern recreations. OK, so it’s not as historically accurate as some of the other suggestions on our list (the moon isn’t actually made out of Wensleydale cheese for instance), but it’s a fun jaunt from British animation’s most beloved stop-motion characters.
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