In the Shadow of the Moon has to be the most inspiring film I've ever seen. If you weren't around in those days, you really missed something. Not just the moon-landing itself, but the the character of the country at the time. So many things were changing in the culture and to me, this was the county's high water mark. Everything the United States was about culminated in Apollo. Not man against nature, but man harnessing it's potential.
It was a time when this country made bold moves. Such as deciding to launch Apollo 8 and orbit the moon when the original mission was to only orbit the earth. Along with Philip Sheppard's sublime score, the British documentary includes film footage never seen and premiered at Sundance in 2007. I was one of the lucky ones who saw it on the big screen and it brought back great memories from almost 40 years ago. I downloaded the film from iTunes. A different world from 1969.
