Apollo 11 Director Todd Douglas Miller

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Todd Douglas Miller directed Apollo 11, the new documentary. It compiles thousands of hours of footage from the moon landing into one brilliant, compelling narrative feature. There's no narration. No interviews. All images and voices from the mission and the run up to it. Some of the footage you've seen, but a lot of it you haven't. A lot of breathtaking 70 millimeter shots in Apollo 11 have never been released to the public until now.

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0:21.1	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:29.3	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:35.3	It's Bullseye.
0:36.9	There aren't many events in American history more covered in film and the moon landing.
0:48.2	So if I tell you about a new documentary on the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and
0:51.7	Buzz Aldrin to the surface of the moon, I'd forgive you for feeling like you've seen
0:56.1	and heard it all before.
0:58.1	Everything had interviews with old scientists, shots of dramatic, JFK speeches, one small
1:04.8	step for man.
1:05.8	You've all seen that kind of documentary.
1:08.8	But believe me when I say this, Apollo 11, the new film is not that kind of documentary.
1:16.6	It is and I am not exaggerating here.
1:18.4	It is a monumental achievement in filmmaking.
1:21.8	Made up entirely of archival footage with no narration, no interviews, just images and
1:27.0	voices from the mission and the run up to the mission.
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