In the Shadow of the Moon

Neil Armstrong ejects from Lunar Landing Research Vehicle 1, May 1968


Neil Armstrong and the X-15, 1960


Buzz Aldrin during training for aircraft ejection at Perrin AFB in May, 1968


Michael Collins and director of flight crew operations Donald K. “Deke” Slayton walk away from a T-38 jet plane at Patrick Air Force Base. The two had been flying arcs to give Collins more time under weightless conditions

"In the Shadow of the Moon" is a 2006 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.

It 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 remastered in HD. Augmenting the archival audio and video are contemporary interviews with some surviving Apollo era astronauts, including Al Bean, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, 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. Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, declined to participate.